Outline Agreement of FS Contarcts

Question

Dear experts,
I'm struggling to try to understand how CRM Outline Agreements works.
Basically I can see that the standard solution privides two kinds of OA:
1. Promo Agreement: trans type DP, item categ DPI
2. Master Agreement: trans type MA, item categ MAF.
II succeeded in understand Promo Agreement, with which I can add third party subvention going to automatically add a Third Party Relationship on the FS contract, according to the access sequences defined in customizing.
Regarding Master Agreement, I already noticed that the determination on contract is customized differently in of respect DP, but is not such a problem.
I'm facing great difficulties in managing price agreements, payment structure and in reporting the results on the FS contract.
Do anyone has a "Best practice documentation" on how to manage and customize an Outline Agreement MA?
- Price agreements: It often gives errors (i.e.: when you try to maintain condition records pricing agreement the condition record is disappears from display during creation.).
I currently assigned a cond function group to the item category MAF to which is assigned a condition type with an access sequence containing the following accesses:
10     SAP00090
20     SAP00099
30     SAP00089
- Payment structure: I cannot insert flow categories in the payment structure of the OA item because the system gives the following error:
tem 1000: Payt struc.: You must enter a flow category before the first program run
Diagnosis
You have not entered a flow category for a step in the payment structure. You must enter a flow category before the first program run, otherwise you must change the flow category later. However, you are not then permitted to change the flow category group.
Procedure
Delete this row and insert a new row in the payment structure. Enter a flow category before the first program run.
When I create an FS Contract and the OA is determined in it, I cannot see any result such as, for example, the price agreement.
Do anyone knows how the outline agreement MA affects the FS contract?
Do anyone knows how to insert the payment structure on the outline agreement's item?
Thanks and regards
Dario

Answer 1

Hello,
Item category 'W' in a contract is not meant for automatic creation of a purchase order. It does not have a net price, where do you expect the system to pick this price from? Tax code only comes in later. Your error also talks about that.
The material group contracts can be used to keep track of orders so that they do not exceed a value limit.
In case, you do not know the material at the time of contract/ or have many similar type of materials use item category 'M' Material instead. In this you can specify price as well as tax code and use for auto POs.
Item Category/Account Assgt. Category in Contracts - Purchasing (MM-PUR) - SAP Library