Import Scenario_Plz Help

Question

Hi Gurus,
My Client (Implementation) is having the Import Scenarios, but i have not used it before. Hence want to share some useful guideline from you people.
Want to know what are all the necessary and important things to be taken care off. I know how to run the Import Pricing and Procurement Process. But what are the other things needed and also i'm not aware of the Import view in Material Master. Is the view necessary to maintain?
Plz provide the necessary guideline and information so that i can atleast start my work.
Thanks.
Akshay

Answer 1

Imports view in material master has got nothing to do with the process per se,
Here is the documentation available For imports in India.
External Procurement (Imports)
Purpose
This process shows you how to handle the countervailing duty (CVD) on imports, which is levied in place of excise duty. Unlike other forms of customs duties, such as basic customs duty or special customs duty, you can credit CVD paid on imports to your CENVAT account.
Prerequisites
Vendor Master Record for Customs Office
Create a vendor master record for the customs office, so that you can create liabilities for the CVD (see step 3 in the process flow).
Condition Type for CVD
The system handles CVD using a condition type for planned delivery costs. Specify which condition type you use in Customizing for Logistics u2013 General, by choosing Taxes on Goods Movements ® India ® Basic Settings ® Determination of Excise Duty ® Excise Defaults.
For more information, see Planned Delivery Costs.
CVD Clearing Account
When you post CVD to a CENVAT account (see step 5 below), the system debits the CVD to the BED account and credits it to a CVD clearing account.
Specify which G/L account you want to use as the CVD clearing account, in Customizing for Logistics u2013 General, by choosing Taxes on Goods Movements ® India ® Basic Settings ® Maintain Company Code Settings.
Process Flow
You create a purchase order for the goods that you want and sent it to the vendor.
For each material that you will have to pay CVD on when it comes through customs, you enter the CVD as a pricing condition.
The vendor ships the goods to you.
When the goods arrive in India, they go through customs. The customs officers issue a bill of entry for the goods, which is in effect an invoice for the CVD on the goods. Once they have inspected the goods, they send them on to you.
The goods arrive at your plant, together with the bill of entry. In order to record the bill of entry in the system:
The excise clerk enters an invoice for the bill of entry
In Accounts Payable (FI-AP), the system creates a new vendor item for the CVD at the customs office. The item is offset to the CVD clearing account.
He then captures an excise invoice for the bill of entry
The warehouseman posts the goods receipt.
The excise supervisor posts the excise invoice.
The excise clerk enters the vendor invoice for the materials, following the standard procedure.
Creating Purchase Orders
Use
You follow this procedure to create a purchase order for imports.
Country Version India contains a sample pricing procedure for imports, JIMPOR.
Procedure
Create a purchase order for the materials that you want to order using the standard procedure, but when you fill out the item information, make sure that you observe the following:
Invoice tab
Enter a zero-rate tax code
Deselect GR-based IV
Conditions tab
Select the countervailing duty (CVD) condition and choose .
In the Rate field, enter the rate of CVD that will be levied on the material when it arrives at customs.
In the vendor field, enter the vendor master record that you have created for the customs office.
Then, once the vendor has delivered the goods and you enter the invoice, the system will automatically credit the CVD liability to the customs office.
Entering Invoices for Bills of Entry
To enter an invoice for a bill of entry, you follow the  standard invoice verification procedure, but make sure you observe the following:
Header Data
Basic data tab
In the Amount field, enter the amount of countervailing duty (CVD) stated on the bill of entry in rupees.
Do not enter any other taxes.
Details tab
Assuming you specified in the purchase order that the CVD was to be paid to the customs office, the system shows the customs office as the vendor. If not, enter the customs officeu2019s vendor master record in the Inv. party (Invoicing party) field.
Line Items
On the PO reference tab, enter data as follows:
Enter the number of the purchase order related to this delivery.
If you only created one purchase order for the goods, enter the purchase order number and select Planned delivery costs.
If you sent more than one purchase order to the vendor and it sent you all of the ordered materials together in one shipment:
Choose .
Enter all of the purchase order numbers in the table.
Select Planned delivery costs.
Select Deliveries and deselect Returns.
Choose  Adopt.
In both cases, the system displays the line items in the line item overview.
For each line item:
In the Amount field, enter the amount of CVD on the item (if you have more than one item, you may have to work the amount out manually).
In the Quantity field, enter the quantity of goods on the invoice.
Enter a zero-rated tax code.
Choose  Simulate.
A dialog box appears with a list of the postings that will be made to Financial Accounting (FI).
Choose  Post.
Capturing Excise Invoices for Bills of Entry
From the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Indirect Taxes ® Procurement ® Excise Invoice ® Incoming Excise Invoice ® Individual Processing ® Capture/Display.
In the top line:
Select Capture Excise Invoice
Select Purchase Order.
Enter the purchase order related to the bill of entry.
Choose .
A dialog box appears.
Enter the number of the invoice that you entered for the bill of entry and choose .
If you need to enter any other purchase orders, enter the number in the top line as for step 3.
Note that this time, you do not need to enter the invoice number.
Enter other data as required.
Note that the countervailing duty is displayed in the basic excise duty fields.
Save the excise invoice.
Entering Goods Receipts
Use
In this procedure, you record the receipt of the goods from the vendor abroad, following the  standard procedure.
Procedure
From the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Logistics ® Materials Management ® Inventory Management ® Goods Movement ® Goods Receipt ® For Purchase Order ® GR for Purchase Order.
In the top line, enter the purchase order number and choose .
A dialog box appears.
Enter the number of the excise invoice that you created for the bill of entry and choose .
If you need to enter more purchase orders u2013 for example, if you sent the vendor more than one purchase order and it sent you back all the ordered materials in a single delivery u2013 for each purchase order, enter the number in the top line and choose .
Check that the line items in the goods receipt are correct.
Save the goods receipt.
Result
The system creates:
A goods receipt document
An accounting document
An entry for the goods receipt in Part I of the appropriate excise register
Posting Excise Invoices
From the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Indirect Taxes ® Procurement ® Excise Invoice ® Incoming Excise Invoice ® Individual Processing ® Change/Display/Post/Cancel.
Select Post CENVAT and Vendor Excise Invoice.
Enter the number of the excise invoice that you created for the bill of entry.
Check that the data is correct.
Choose  Simulate CENVAT.
A dialog box appears with a list of the accounting entries that will be made to transfer the CVD from the clearing account to the excise duty account.
To close the dialog box, choose .
If the data is correct, choose Post CENVAT.
The system posts the CENVAT and creates a corresponding entry in Part II or the appropriate excise register