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Prevent Foreign Trade for specific Order Type

Former Member
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Hello Gurus,

Is it possible to have one company active for foreign trade while another company of the same country is not?

Can this be done by not setting the "Legal Control" check against the Sales / Delivery Header and Item under the "Legal Control" node in SPRO?

The 2 companies will not share the same document types. However the materials will be shared.

Pls. do let me know. if there is any other way to prevent this.


It is a bit urgent and any advice would be really appreciated.


Thank You.

Sunny

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VeselinaPeykova
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What is the business argumentation to exclude one of the companies from INTRASTAT/EXTRASTAT etc.?

From what I know, the relevance of foreign trade is not directly derived from the company code - a comparison is performed between the country of the shipping point and the country of the ship-to-party in the sales document. Material master data is used in foreign trade, but simply setting a commodity code for some plant is not going to trigger the process.

You have not provided many details on the exact business case and the current setup, so it is very difficult to propose a good solution.

What processes are used in each of the companies? Do they both have cases where the country of the shipping point is different from the country of the customers to which they deliver? Is it really correct to 'switch off' the process in the second company code (usually you need to get an official approval from somebody who is responsible for the process)?

Techically it is possible to exclude manually specific documents or document items from different declarations, also it is possible to exclude specific processes completely by setting exclusion indicators to certain item categories in customizing.

There is a way to disable legal control checks for specific document type/item category (if this is what you actually meant by preventing FT).

In case your aim is to prevent shipping to foreign customers from a specific company unit, then this is a completely different subject (relatively easy to achieve by pricing configuration).

You might want to check the documentation for foreign trade setup and processing in SCN Wiki - it is very well maintained and really useful to understand the logic behind.