Contracts & Schedule Agreements and effects on MRP

Currently our sales people are using SAP Contracts. The contract shows up in my MRP daily but it shows a qty due to the customer as of the date the sales person entered the contract with complete qty due now or past due. I am trying to get them to use Schedule Agreements as I don't think these would have the same effect on my MRP when they put in the required date and qty that material needs to actually be delivered.
Do you agree that a schedule agreement would be better?
Please advise. These contracts are terrible when no dates are put in them.
Thanks

Shipment date is the date that the material which will be leaving from the plant from the shipping point.
In SAP, GI date is the date, when the goods leaving from the Plant premises.
Delivery date is the date that the material will be reaching at the customer hand
Delivery date, specifies the date , when goods will be expecting at customer site ( this date will be determined from GI date + Transit duration in Route master).
1. Do the user has to calculate manually the dates and enter in the scheduline coloumn or
No need to calculate the dates manually. This Calcuation will be done based on your customization in Route Master ( Transit Duration). but delivery dates has to be entered manually in Schedule lines tab in Scheduling agreements.
*2. If the person is entering the dleivery date (wht ever given by the customer ) in the schedulines. how will the system will calculate automatcially six week before the delviery date to RUN the MRP
Based on Delivery date/ GI date/ Pick pack & load time = Material available date will be determined. This Material available date then transferred to prodcution.

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Contract , scheduling agreement and service order

Hi all,
Can anybody tell me about the contract scheduling agreement and when we can suggest our client to go for schedule or contract agreement ?
Pls tell me elaborately .
Also Pls explain me about service order and when can i go for service order . whether it is restricted to AMC ?
Pls explain me elaborately.
pls explain me steps for creating contract or scheduling agreement and service order..........................
points to be rewarded.
Regards,
Girish.

Hi,
Contract is outline purchasing agreement where you have a contract with the vendor,may be a for a predetermined quantity or predefined value. So everytime you need the matl, you need to make PO ref the contract asking for the delivery of the matl. In such instance when PO is ref with contract its called contract release orders or call off orders. So Process are ME01, ME11, ME31K with aggnrement type, ME51,ME21 & MIGO,
Scheduling agreement is a long term purchase agreement, where you will keep issuing the delivery schedules whenever there is a change in requirement or at predetermined time intervals. The delivery schedule can be on hour/daily/weekly/monthly basis. SA is also an agreement with the vendor for the supply of matl, may be a quanity or value. The delivery dates will be maintained in ME38 ref the SA which are called delivery schedules.So you can maintain the delivery schedule and communicate the vendor on Forecase basis or JIT basis. And when you need some more matl then will only create SA deliveries using ME38. SA could be of 2 types:- without release documentation-system will transmit the delivery info to the vendor once you save the document.
With release documentation- after creating the delivery schedules you need to create SA release using ME84.So Process are ME01, ME11, ME31K with aggnrement type, ME38 & MIGO,
Service order or service PO is created with item Category "D" and an account assignment category as per ur requirement. U can not enter ur material here only u have to maintain short text of material. Example: You want to clean the boiler and u given contract to your Vendor. Vendor sends quotation mentioning that Rs.100/hr/Man head. Now how you will measure the cleaning activities of furnace? You can pay to contractor based on the hourly basis/ man head spent in cleaning activities. So in this case create the Purchase Order mentioning "Cleaning" in the short text in Item overview(Acc assignment ' K' or C or P and Item category 'D) and item details " Man Head" Service No , Gross price - Rs.100.00 and unit - hour ( or pick from Service master) and Quantity-number of hours spent by all man head.
The steps to create Service PO are:
1) Maintain Item Category as D & account assignment such as cost center Kor slaes orderC
2) Keep material code field blank.
3) Enter description of service & other fields in the PO Item Overview level. Press Enter.
4) System will prompt you to maintain services at Item Level. Maintain your service master number / service description & other fields (quantity / rate /)
5) Save the PO.
For more follow the links;
For more follow the link;
http://esoadocu.sap.com/socoview(bD1lbiZjPTgwMCZkPW1pbg==)/render.asp?packageid=DBBB6D8AA3B382F191E0000F20F64781&id=EB65A89F1AFD4C46AB61C6161BAF
http://www.sap-img.com/sap-sd/sap-sd-scheduling-agreement-vs-contract.htm
http://www.copacustomhelp.state.pa.us/infopak/nav/procurement/contracting/file1499/index.htm
http://www.sap-img.com/materials/what-is-outline-and-scheduling-agreement.htm
Regards,
Biju K

Exit for role determination via exit for scheduling agreement and contract?

Hi..
I have a requirement to fetch the agents in run-time for PO,PR,SCHEDULE AGREEMENT, CONTRACT..
For PO i am using EXIT : - M06E0005
For PR release i am using EXIT :- M06B0001
By using above 2 exits i am getting the agents at run-time...
Same way i need the EXIT for SCHEDULE AGREEMENT and CONTRACT..
if there is any EXIT for this please share with me..
Regards,
Imtiaz Khan

Hi Imtiaz,
Ideally you should have your agent determination logic in workflow itself instead of determinining them in EXIT.
Can you tell me why you are determining agents in exit and how you are making use of it ?
Also let us know how your workflows are getting trigger for all these documents.
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Ibrahim

Same BO is getting invoked for Pur. Order, Schedule Agreement and Contract

Hi All,
My Scenario is like this:
For Purchase order, Scheduling Agreement and for Contract the Release Statergy are same. For these three scenarios i have created 3 different workflow templates.
My Purchase order workflow is working fine.
My problem is :
When i create a Schedule agreement or a contract, my PO business object is getting invoked and it goes to error.
I have a doubt:
For all the three scenario's they are using same number range, will this may be one of reason for the above problem???
Kindly help me to resolve the issue.
Thanks and Regards
Balaji E.

Hi,
You can check this link:-
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/wiki?path=/display/abap/workflow+scenario (based on PO change)
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/wiki?path=/display/crm/action%252bprofiles%252bin%252bsap-crm(reason for more than 1 WF trigger)
More than 1 WF trigger, could be that there would be a triggering condition that triggers more than 1 WF. Since further the conditions are not satisfied, this could lead the WF in error state.
Let me know if u still face any issues..!!
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Kanika

Reg. Scheduling agreements and contracts

Hi Dears
Please explain in greate details "what is schedule agreements" , "contracting", "How to use Scales in standard PO" and what is scales.
I couln't find the proper explanation in our Forums.
Bye
Rajkumar

Hi
(1) - Schedule agreements allow you to have 2 different sets of schedule lines (VBEP-ABART). Standard SAP you should have two sets of tabs - of schedule lines. One Forecast & the other JIT. Forecast forwards the schedule lines to planning (seen in MD04) and JIT passes them to shipping (VL10). They can be identical or different. Typically these are used for component supplier customers (namely Automotive). The customer will provide you 4-10 weekly buckets (usually a
Monday date) of future forecast qtys. Also send you 1-2 weeks of individual FIRM ship dates - which are entered on the JIT. It comes down to the customer not knowing exactly what they need next week, but they don't want to suprise you with a large order qty, where your lead times are 5+ days. The forecasted qtys they sent last week should account for this.
(2) Cumulative Quantities are tracked and influence how the schedule agreement passes requirements to both forecasting and shipping. These qtys are sometimes requested by the customer on ASNs. Cumulative qtys reset at year end unless you've got a customer calendar or you've modified standard SAP user exits to not reset.
Schedule agreements are very nice when the customer sends EDI data (830s = forecast or 862s = JITs). Outside of that they can really cause trouble regarding daily maintenance, missing requirements, *** qty corrections, year end processing, etc.
One alternative would be to use customer independent requirements - entering the weekly, monthly forecasting qtys and entering standard sales orders (with or without multiple schedule lines) to represent the true firm qtys.
Refer below
http://www.sap-basis-abap.com/mm/gr-creation-for-schedule-agreement.htm
You can fix a price in the info record for a say qty from 1-100 price RS150 & if the order qty is 101- 500- the prices is 140 . Scales cannot be used directly in PO but can be pulled into the PO from various master data like info record, quota arrangement.
For further details refer sdn thread below
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SCHEDULING AGREEMENT AND SCHEDULING LINE CREATION

Hello Guys,
I trying creating a scheduling agreement(SA) for vendor & material combination.
I have created a Scheduling agreement in ME31L then maintained in ME38.
In ME38 i have also mentioned the delivery date. when i am checking EKKO for Purchasing document , its created with the delivery date specified.
My question is how to create a schedule line ? Do we need to maintain a source list of that material, plant and vendor.
If we have the source list maintained, then what is the next step after SA is created and maintained.
Do we need to do MIGO? because i tested by creating one SA in ME31L and maintained in ME38. I mentioned the delivery date as today and when i checked EKKO table the Purchasing document is created.
Do i need to create a Purchase Order?
If no then do i need to do MIGO? If i need to do MIGO, for what reference do i need to do MIGO???
My client never maintained a Scheduling agreement, they want the scheduled lines to be created and sent to vendor and we need to receive the goods on specified delivery date.
Help will be appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi,
You need to make a distinction between the scheduling agreement (ME31L/ME32L) and the delivery schedule creation (ME38/ME84)
With ME31L you create the scheduling agreement. In the scheduling agreement which is created for a vendor you maintain the parts that you will order at this vendor, the target quantity that you will order over a certain period and the price.
In ME38 you use the scheduling agreement number that is created with ME31L to create schedule lines (manually). These schedule lines consist of a date and an quantity. This is the data that needs to be transmitted to the vendor and against which the vendor is shipping the ordered materials.
Once the vendor ships the materials you post the goods receipt in Migo against the scheduling agreement number.
That is the basic working of the scheduling agreement and the delivery schedule.
Now some remarks.
You need to set-up the required output conditions for transmitting the data to the vendor either via print, fax, email or EDI.
You can do this manually in each scheduling agreement and each release but typically you maintain the output condition records.
For scheduling agreement contract (ME31L) you use transaction MN07.
For the delivery schedule (ME38/ME84) you use transaction MN10.
In order for you to be able to post the goods receipt the delivery schedule needs to have been transmitted otherwise you will get a message that not requirement are found when trying to post goods receipt.
Also the goods receipt can only be posted if the requirements are valid on the day that you are performing MIGO. This means if you would post GR today then the open requirements in the scheduling agreement need to be for today or already from previous dates. The system will not allow you to post GR for quantities that are only due tomorrow (if this is required a user exit needs to be set-up).
If you want schedule lines created via MRP then you need to set-up a source list using ME01. You have to make sure that the MRP key is set to 2 in orer for the system to generate schedule lines and you also have to make sure that you have the correct MRP parameters set-up.
You can use ME84 to transmit the delivery schedule lines generated by MRP if no changes are required. With the ME84 you can transmit multiple releases at once, however this transaction can not be used to make manual changes to the MRP proposal.
The scheduling agreement offers lot's more possibilities but the above should get you going with the basics.
Hope this will help you on your way.

Creation of PO/Contract/Scheduling agreement with ref to PR using IDOC

Hi Experts,
Is it possible to create PO/Contract/Scheduling agreement with reference to PR using inbound IDOC ?
If yes, please let me know the segment type and field to be populated for referencing PR in the IDoc .
Thanks in Advance,
Best Regards,
Mitesh Desai

Hi Aarif,
Thanks for taking time to reply .
We are palnning to integrate SAP and non SAP systems.
The business Process is as under .
(1) PR will be generated in ERP (Manaul/MRP)
(2) PR will be coverted into RFQ (for which there is no appropriate source of supply
in ERP)
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(4) Non SAP system will do sourcing and generates either PO or master outline agreement and have reference PR/RFQ numbers and line item numbers.
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(5) This inbound idoc will generate PO/outline agreement in SAP.
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Contracts/scheduling agreements

Hi,
Could anyone suggest me some useful links on contracts/ scheduling agreements?
Thanks in advance
Aparna

Dear,
Outline agreements in procurement can be 2 types:
Contracts or Scheduling agreements.
Contract is where you have a contract with the vendor,may be a for a predetermined quantity or predefined value. So everytime you need the matl, you need to make PO ref the contract asking for the delivery of the matl. In such instance when PO is ref with contract its called contract release orders or call off orders.
Scheduling agreement is a long term purchase agreement, where you will keep issuing the delivery schedules whenever there is a change in requirement or at predetermined time intervals. The delivery schedule can be on hour/daily/weekly/monthly basis. But it will contain different zones viz. firm/tradeoff/Forecast. Firm zone schedules are confirmed requirement and need to be taken by ordered party. Tradeoff zone requirement is to purchase the raw materails and ordering party is liable to pay raw material cost, in case of requirement cancellation. Forecast zone requirement is to help the vendor to plan his requirements.
SA is also an agreement with the vendor for the supply of matl, may be a quanity or value. The delivery dates will be maintained in ME38 ref the SA which are called delivery schedules.So you can maintain the delivery schedule and communicate the vendor on Forecase basis or JIT basis. And when you need some more matl then will only create SA deliveries using ME38. SA could be of 2 types:- without release documentation-system will transmit the delivery info to the vendor once you save the document.
With release documentation- after creating the delivery schedules you need to create SA release using ME84.
The main difference between contract and SA is volume of docs generated would be higher in contract since everytime you need to make a PO ref the contract and its time consuming, whereas SA can be integrated with MRP such that it automatically creates delivery schedules during MRP run provided if there is a requirement to the matl.
Visit : http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm30/helpdata/en/7d/0a093f7c392e5ae10000000a114084/content.htm
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Syed Hussain.

Creation Profile in Scheduling Agreement and Schedule LIne

Dear Experts,
Currently I'm working on Scheduling Agreement and Schedule Line.In standard SAP gives the provision of creation profile.I've gone through the SAP help documentation but I'm not clear on that.I've few doubts on creation profile.
1. I've created a profile say XXXX for 14 days JIT and 6 months Forecast.And I maintain the same on Scheduling Agreement additional data.
2.I'm creating delivery schedule respect ot Scheduling agrrement.
3. I maintain the aggregation horiozon in creation profile as 10 days daily aggregation for JIT and 120 days for monthly aggregation for forecast.
4.I run MRP for the header material and I maintain the necessary SA number in Source list.
5. After MRP run I'm not getting the respective schedule lines for JIT and Forecast.
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Please clarify me on creaion profile.
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PKB

Dear Experts,
I'm not getting any response regarding Creation profile which I posted last week.
Can anybody explain me the use of Creation profile in Schedule line?
From Standard SAP help documentation I'm not convince.
Best Regards
PKB

Change Scheduling Agreement and Info Record using Bapi

Hi Experts,
Can anybody say how to change the Scheduling agreement and Info Record using Bapi.
I use BAPI_AGREEMENT_MAINTAIN to change Scheduling Agreement .
But it does not changing Scheduling lines.

Hi,
Please find the below link check the setting are correct or not
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/a02cb00a-bfb4-2c10-98aa-e33e7f64ba28?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true
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Generate Source List while creating Contract/Scheduling Agreement

Hi,
My requirement is that the Source List for the particular Material / Vendor should be created automatically when I am creating a new Contract / Scheduling Agreement.
How can this be acheived.
Thanks in Advance,
Manju.

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Scheduling Agreements and relevant schedule lines configuration !

Dear Sapients,
I request you all to help me in providing the configuration steps for Scheduling Agreements and relevant Schedule lines configuration.
Its urgent please help me !!
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Sreedhar.
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Hi Sreedhar,
Scheduling Agreement with Delivery Schedules
Definition
An outline agreement that is created for one or more materials and outlines the overall expected quantity of the material(s) to be delivered to the customer over a specific period of time.
Use
The scheduling agreement is used as a basis for delivering a material. The customer sends in scheduling agreement releases, referred to as delivery schedules, at regular intervals to release a quantity of the material.
Structure
The structure of scheduling agreements with delivery schedules resemble that of other sales documents in the R/3 System, in particular the standard scheduling agreement.
Data that applies to the entire document appears in the header; data about materials appears at item level; and delivery dates and quantities appear in the schedule lines within the delivery schedule. Additionally, the system maintains a history that permits you to compare and contrast various generations of delivery schedules.
Integration
Data in scheduling agreements comes from three sources:
The customer sends in requested quantities and dates, normally by Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
The component supplier enters data manually
The system automatically copies data into the scheduling agreement from master records
Please go through the below link for further information
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/93/7439fb546011d1a7020000e829fd11/frameset.htm.
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Can anybody let me know,
What are the steps involve in creation of scheduling agreement and distributing the scheduline lines to SUS.
Regards
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In R/3 go to transaction -->
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SAR to SUS.

Pricing Procedure determination for Quotation,Contract,Scheduling Agreement

Hello All,
Plz let me know,how the pricing procedure(Both Item & Header Level) can be determined for Quotation,Contract,Scheduling Agreement.
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Thanks
JP

Hi Jyoti ,
There isn't any separate pricing procedure for Quotaions , Contracts , Scheduling Agreement s..
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Scheduling Agreements and Purchase Contracts in SAP APO

Hi
We are currently working on a SCM 5.0 trialbox and we don't have access to any R/3 environment.
Is it possible to create Scheduling Agreements/Purchase Contracts in APO ? If not then is there any way to upload the data using a flat file ?
Best Regards
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You cannot create Contracts, Purchasing Inforecords and Scheduling Agreements in APO since these are all R/3 Master Data objects. These when CIFed to APO will create External Procurement Relationships of different types 1, 2 and 3.
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