Difference - Outline Agreement , Scheduling Agrrement , Contract

Hi all...
Can anyone of you please explain whats the main difference between Outline Agreement , Scheduling Agrrement and Contract and when & where are these used.
Thanks
Balaji

Hi
Contracts and SA...both are called as Outline Agreements...
the main Diff.bet Contracts and SA..
1)The Conditions maintained in Contracts are always Time Dependent....where as you can maintain floating conditions in SA.(Controled by Doc.Type)
2)Based on contract you cannot do GR Directly....ie)you have to separately send Release Order by referring Contracts and based on these release orders only you can do GR....
whereas in SA, after releasing SA...you can do GR based on these SA...
3)The Individual delivery lines of the Release orders of the Contracts will not be effective.....where as Individual Delivery lines of the SA are Effective...
Reward if useful
Regards
S.Baskaran

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or step by step process in SAP......
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outline agreement can be contract and scheduleing agreements...
Both are used for long time periods...
For eg in schedule agreement, there are schedule stored ie. no. of dates for which the qty is req. in the industry....
both can be used as a perdoc for the generation of the PO...
but there is an added advantage, with schdule agreement we can have further del. schedule generated even if the further req. is seen....but in contracts you need to generated new contract release order for every new requirement....
For further details pls check the link:
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Outline agreement or automatic schedule from scheduling agreement

Hello Master's,
Plz find the below workflow which will brief u abt the complete process;-
1.User raises indent(me51n) and then releases(me54n) else as per our MRP, indent/PR gets generated automatically.
2. Standard Practice is that we invite offers, negotiate and place order (me21n) else f we have rate contract for any item we go for direct ordering (me21n) and then get it released (me29n)
For around 20-30k material codes we have rate contract finalized with various suppliers for a period of time.
When we find any indent/pr falling into this category, we dont invite offer but go for ordering as per the finalized price. The price is maintained in excel or pdf format.
Problem is we want to map material codes with vendor and rates associated with the contract.
For this either we have to go for outline agreement(me31k) of scheduling agreement(me31l) so that whenever any indent/PR gets generated in this category, order/delivery schedule will be generated automatically in SAP.
Points in which i need help from you:-
1. How to generate automatic po from outline agreement or automatic schedule from scheduling agreement.
2. complete understanding of the difference between outline agreement and scheduling agreement.

Hi Nilson,
The data contained within the global outline agreement is distributed as purchasing contracts or scheduling agreements to the backend systems of the release-authorized purchasing organizations of the relevant corporate group. These purchasing organizations can then use the purchasing contracts or scheduling agreements according to the terms agreed centrally within the global outline agreement.
For more details.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/42/f93dfd975f3ee6e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
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I am new to SAP MM, can anyone please tell me the difference b/w framework orders and outline orders/ agreement.
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Dear,
A Frame work order is :
Purchasing document used for the procurement of materials or external services. Instead of stipulating a specific delivery date, this type of purchase order has an extended validity period. Goods or services can be supplied or performed against it over this period without the need for any further written instruction to be issued by the buying entity.
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An Outline agreement is :
Outline agreement also referred as Contract in SAP.
Outline Agreement can be of 2 types:- Contract and SA.
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 material, you need to make PO ref the contract asking for the delivery of the material. 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.
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Hi Nilson,
The data contained within the global outline agreement is distributed as purchasing contracts or scheduling agreements to the backend systems of the release-authorized purchasing organizations of the relevant corporate group. These purchasing organizations can then use the purchasing contracts or scheduling agreements according to the terms agreed centrally within the global outline agreement.
For more details.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/42/f93dfd975f3ee6e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
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Can anybody give me a step by step explanation of how to configure and distribute contracts and global outline agreements to the backend system. Also the T-codes used to access the contracts in the backend once the contracts have been distributed.
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Hi Sunil,
I am not sure how are you creating your GOA in SRM. SRM Sourcing Business Config guide has lot of info on this. Here is some in brief.
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Early reply on this much appriciated.
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Hi everybody !
I need your precious help...
I have to change regulary the price conditions (PB00) for some items in contracts, and I wanted to know if there was a function module or a bapi that could do that, and, is there an FM or a BAPI that could add some items in (known) contracts ?
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Early reply on this much appriciated.
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We are trying to create contract in backend system automatically. We have implemented the following two BADI.
BBP_DETERMINE_LOGSYS (SRM 5.0)
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But they are not getting triggered, when the contract is created. Just for the sake of confirming this, We put some logic for inserting an entry in the custom table if at the BADI is trigerred. But after the creation of contract there is no entry found in the custome table, hence I believe that the BADI is not getting trigerred.
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https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=1066187&messageID=1694393
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Note 646903 - Global outline agreement: Tips and tricks.
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regards,nishant
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Best Regards
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Hi Mitesh,
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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I have created a outline agreement(Contract) with net price as 100 / 1 Kg. But when I go to EKPO table in front of Net Price it is reflecting net price as 1 / 1 Kg. So it shows that it is dividing the net price by 100 in Table EKPO. This is happening with the currencies which are maintained in T Code OY04 (Currencies like JPY, CLP, ESP, ITL) with decimals as 0.
Rest all curriencies which have not maintained in OY04, there is no problem in EKPO as the data matches with Outline Agreement Net Price.
Request you to please provide the input to resolve the same.
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Hi Neeraj Singh,
The value of data stored in EKPO depends on the decimal places defined
for the currency. In standard the decimal places is taken as 2 . Therefore the value will be
the same as order price if the currency is defined for two decimal
places ( default is 2 ).
However, if the decimal places for JPY is defined as zero the table
will show a value of price /100. If you choose a currency with
3 decimal places the value in the table will be price * 10 and so on.
Example:
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SGD                                               2               2000               2000
NLG                                               2               2000               2000
JPY                                               0               2000               20
KWD (Kuwati Dinar)                     3               2000               20000
ITL                                                 0               2000               20
All currencies that do not have any decimal places at all
(TCURX-CURRDEC = 0) must have EKPO-NETPR multiplied by 100.
Please check SAP notes which may be of help to understand this issue 53206 and 137626
The issue you reported in not an error but standard. I hope this information is of help.
Regards,
Lorraine
Edited by: Lorraine Donnelly on Jul 12, 2010 6:57 PM

Very imp outline agreements.

hi experts,
1)in which type of outline agreement does the price updates in info record .
2)i created a quantity contract and created a pur order with reference to contract, now i want to see how much quantity is still left in the contract target quantity.
please advice me
regards

Hi,
Point wise answers as below:
1) For value contact and Scheduling agreements will update the info record but it depends upon the indicator you are setting in additional data of agreement.
2) Go to T.Code: ME33K and to item Over view and select line item> Item > Statistics > Release documentation (or Ctrl + Shift + F12)
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Hi,
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