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
Regards,
Syed Hussain.

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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

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)
(3) Sourcing will be done in non SAP system. RFQ will be created with dummy vednro (for example say "source") to identify RFQs to be sent to another system.
These RFQs needs to be sent using IDOC alonwith reference PR numbers and line item numbers.
Multiple PRs will be combined into one RFQ as multiple line items.
(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.
No SAP system will send PO/outline agreement information to SAP system in XML file format to generate inbound IDOC in SAP .
(5) This inbound idoc will generate PO/outline agreement in SAP.
From SAP functionality point of view, I ca createPO/outline agreement with reference to PR but My Question is how I can generate PO/outline agreement in SAP through IDOC and using "Reference PR or RFQ numbers".
Looking forward to help ASAP.
Regards,
Mitesh Desai

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.

Create an LSMW so that while loading contract itself you can also load source list.
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Mohan

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.
Do let me know with configuration details.
Thanks
JP

Hi Jyoti ,
There isn't any separate pricing procedure for Quotaions , Contracts , Scheduling Agreement s..
The pricing which u normally find in PO derived from Vendor Master ( Based on Vendor Schema ) , hold good for the above purchasing documents.
Regards
Ramesh Ch

Inbound delivery for Sub-Contracting Scheduling Agreement

Hi All,
I am working on inbound delivery creation --> PGR for sub-assembly (Semi-finished product) which we receive from sub-contracting vendor through scheduling agreement. At time of PGR, it should do MVT#101 for sub-assembly and 543-O for raw components.
I already created JIT/FRC releases and did PGI (MVT # 541-O) for raw components. Now I am manually creating inbound delivery (VL31n) to post PGR. When I am doing PGR with VL60, I am getting below error.
Any help or suggestion please ?
As observation, I have seen that in inbound delivery I am only seeing sub-assembly (semi-finished) product. I am not able see "SC Component" tab which I have seen on other environment (ECC 6.0 with EHP4). Is it related to system limitation where we can't do PGR for sub-contracting ?
Thanks.

Hi AKPT,
Sorry if i miss understood but note 352243 says to refer note: 338119
"In the current release, it is not possible to process the components to be cleared when you post the goods receipt for the inbound delivery. (See Notes 338119, 197864 and 199703 also).
However when you implement these corrections, the error log is also displayed for the subitems to be cleared and further processing can be carried as described in Note 338119."
When I refer note : 338119, there is no correction. Am I missing anything ?
Again my issue is I am not able to perform Post Goods Receipt. Even after doing PGR, if system do 543 for raw component, I am fine.
Thanks.
Regards,
Ravi

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.
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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
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Quantity contracts/ Scheduling Agreements

Hello All,
I am working on a special business scenario.
To do this I need to invoice the "quantity contract" or "scheduling agreement". I know itu2019s not possible in standard but is there anyway where I can invoice the quantity contract or scheduling agreement? With modifications and maintaining copying control I can do the invoice to the contracts but I know I canu2019t run MRP. Is there any possibility where I can run MRP for Quantity contracts? Both the steps (Invoice and MRP) should configure to run the functionality.
My next query is how I can save outline agreement with out mentioning the dates and quantity.
I know the questions I raised look strange but itu2019s very useful to my business process if I can configure above items.
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Vamsi

Hi,
My req also similar to yours.
Customer place the req- with or without delivery dates.
In this case,initially i started luking for quantity contract. but both with r without delivery dates, I cant maintain in contracts.moreover this contracts,we cant run MRP & cant create billing too (as its not rel for billing )
then i look for the scheduling agreement,
In std SAP,you cant create agreement without qtty,because agreement will have pricing procedure applicable. without qtty pricing will be "zero"- then system wont allow to save the agreement.
for me, Scheduling agreement working fine,
I can use this with or without delivery dates & with or without qtty. this req will be transferred for MRP run.
Just analyze, why you need to create agreement without qtty- will solve ur issue.
in my case,
Customer can receive the goods irrespective of ordered qtty. means its considered as open order all the time until the validity period completes. But the pricing will be mentioned in agreement.But without qtty we cant have pricing.So i entered the max-X qtty in agreement started creating delivery with ref to this agreement. In delivery item cat -checked"over delivery allowed"- So irrespective of the order qtty i can delivery as per customer req & the same delivered qtty n price will be copied at the time of invoice creation.
hope it helps

BOM not copied to sch. line in Sub Contract scheduling agreement in Kanban.

Hi,
We are trying to procure material (A) via subcontract scheduling agreement document using Kanban process. This subcontract material has a valid BOM (say it has child materials B & C). We are working with 'Replenishment element for kanban' model (not JIT call).
When Kanban bins status is changed to empty, a schedule line is placed in the subcontract scheduling agreement. But when we try to view the BOM of the schedule line created (Item -> components -> overview), we dont find any child material (B&C) attached to it. Hence when Kanban bin was changed from RED to GREEN, material movement 101 takes place for parent material (A) but 543 (consumption of child materials) is not happening for child materials (B &C).
Mean while, we created some schedule lines manually in aforementioned SC sch.agreement. When we view the BOM of this manually created schedule line, we can see the child materials attached to it. Hence when bin status was changed from RED to GREEN, both 101 & 543 movements were posted.
Can anyone let us know what needs to be done so that when Kanban bin is changed to EMPTY, it places schedule line in SC sch.agreement along with its BOM (Child material) details?
Warm regards,
Saravana.

Dear Ashok,
Issue: how to make BOM field(Component Part) in PO/ SA field non editable in MM customising. After the PO is saved user can not able to edit the component field in PO or Scheduling Agrreement.
BOM field ( component Part ) is directly dependent on quantiyu of material entered. so once you change the PO quantity the component quanity wil change accordingle,
presently you can not achievev thease
but You can set the release strategy like that Po that it is not changable, doing so u r requirement willl achieve
Hope your query is resolved

Scheduling agreement created with reference to contract-Issue

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I had posted a query as how to update net price in the contract/scheduling agreement if the condition price is updated through inbound Idocs.I got the correct answer as you need to run the report RM06ENP0/RM06ENP1 as per note 685117.
But now I am having a different issue;the scenario is like: A scheduling agreement is created with reference to contract.So the SA is linked to contract now.I am now going to change the condition price of SA through Inbound Idoc.After the updation ,the condition price gets changed in all cases.
In one server,I found that the net price gets updated and the link btn contract and SA is broken without running the report RM06ENP1(Ideal situation,this is what I want).In other server ,I found the net price is not getting updated,ie the link is not broken even after running the report RM06ENP1.
Can anybody tell me why the second situation is happening?

Hi,
i have done ur scenario. According to ur scenario, quantity contract is created for 100 units may be kg, pc etc.. Then scheduling agreement is created with reference to that contract but for 200 units may be kg, pc etc.. Scheduling agreement is created without getting any error or warning message.
In the Next step, i.e. maintain delivery schedule( Tcode: ME38). U get the ERROR message as Scheduling agreement document number xxxxx is does not exist after entering scheduling agreement number in the initial screen of ME38.
if this information is useful for u, reward me according to ur usage.
bye
Narasimha Rao Gunda

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
Contracts
scheduling agreements
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Regarding : Contracts and Scheduling Agreements

Hi All SAP Proffessionals,
Can anybody tell me what do we mean by Contracts/Scheduling Agreements?

Hi Mahesh,
A contract is a type of outline purchase agreement against which release orders (releases) can be issued for agreed materials or services as and when required during a certain overall time-frame.
Contracts are of two types:
1. Quantity contracts - Use this type of contract if the total quantity to be ordered during the validity period of the contract is
known in advance.
2. Value contracts - Use this type of contract if the total value of all release orders issued against the contract is not to exceed a certain predefined value.
But a scheduling agreement is a form of outline purchase agreement under which materials are procured on predetermined dates within a certain time period. A scheduling agreement consists of a number of items, for each of which a procurement type is defined. The
The following are the procurement types:
- Standard
- Subcontracting
- Consignment
- Stock transfer
Delivery of the total quantity of material specified in a scheduling agreement item is spread over a certain period in a delivery schedule, consisting of lines indicating the individual quantities with their corresponding planned delivery dates.
Contracts and Scheduling Agreement transaction codes:
Transaction codes:
Contracts: ME31K to ME35K
Scheduling agreements: ME31L to ME35L.
Please award if helps!
Thanks!
preethi.

Change material freight group in scheduling agreement

Hello,
whenever we create a scheduling agreement (VA31/VA32), we can change the field "Mat. freight grp" on the Shipping tab on item level.
After the first delivery, this field grays out and we are not able to change it anymore. Is there a way to change the field after the first delivery?
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Anne

Hi, Jürgen / Muthuraman
What is the reason behind this? Change of material group in material master and the new maerial group is not being updated in the existing contract/Schedule agreement?
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Exit for role determination via exit for scheduling agreement and contract?

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I have a requirement to fetch the agents in run-time for PO,PR,SCHEDULE AGREEMENT, CONTRACT..
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By using above 2 exits i am getting the agents at run-time...
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if there is any EXIT for this please share with me..
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Hi Imtiaz,
Ideally you should have your agent determination logic in workflow itself instead of determinining them in EXIT.
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Also let us know how your workflows are getting trigger for all these documents.
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Error in modifying Schedule Agreement with reference to contract

I have created a Schedule Agreement with reference to a contract manually.The contract is of type MK, while the SA is of type LP.
The contract contains one Material which was successfully added to the SA.
Now I am trying to automate the same using BAPI BAPI_SAG_CHANGE. This causes a short dump in the system -
Runtime Errors       MOVE_CAST_ERROR
Exception              CX_SY_MOVE_CAST_ERROR
Short text              Dynamic type conflict when assigning references
Error analysis
    An exception occurred that is explained in detail below.
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    target type: "\FUNCTION-POOL=MEOUT\CLASS=LCL_OUT_ITEM_CON"
Information on where terminated:
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The following data was populated before calling the BAPI:(along with itemx table also)
item-item_no
item-agreement
item-agmt_item
The entire logic consists of updating the contract first with a new line item and then adding a line item in SA with reference to the new item in the contract.
The contract updation is working correctly [BAPI_CONTRACT_CHANGE].

Hi Bahrat,
I am also facing the same issue now. Is this issue resolved for you?
Please send the threads if any.
Can anyone plz respond for the issue?

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