Managing SAP Agricultural Contract Management in the Application Work Center

The application process primarily involves linking the application document to a contract commodity item. The Manual Application Workcenter (MAW) can be used to view and work with the application document.

The application document is an intermediate SAP document that will be created after post good receipt/post goods issue to facilitate the contract application and settlement process.

The primary use of the application document is to enable processes like the application of discount premium quantity/quality schedules, evaluation of tolerances, and evaluation of optionalities.

The application document type is defined by the initial business scenario. For example, PAD (Purchase), SAD (Sales), ICP (Interco Purchase), ICS (Interco Sale), CAD (Commingled), and so on.

The application document contains the following data at item level:

• Vendor/customer
• Commodity material
• LDC Subscreen: Provides a link to the load data document
• Tolerance Evaluation: Determination of the overfill/underfill according to the tolerance schedule and tolerance ID assigned within the contract
• DPQS Evaluation: Determination of the characteristic values entered in the load data document and calculation of the adjusted quantity (volume schedule)
• Optionality Evaluation: Determination of whether the optionalities exercised are allowed for contract application; determination of premium/discount options, if applicable
• Status: Status of application document, for example draft, ready to apply, provisionally applied, finally applied, returns completed, or reverse application. Dependent on status, displays allowed follow-on actions, for example final application, reversal, and so on
• Quantities: The quantity determined from the load data document which incorporates the delivered/applied/adjusted and original item quantity
• Inventory Balance Posting: Displays all the goods movement messages, if a third-party system is used

The MAW provides the additional follow-on processes:

• Search for the application document using a range of selection criteria

  For example, order, contract, delivery, application document status, customer/vendor, and so on

• Display the application document

• Link a ready to apply application to a pricing TC, either manually or through a proposal

  One application document item can be selected and applied to one pricing TC

• One application document can be selected and applied to multiple pricing TCs
• Split quantities between pricing TCs

• Work with commingled application documents

  For example, spot purchase or accumulate to store

• Create contract request
• Set ready to price indicator for spot and accumulate to own
• Set a final delivery flag (allows use of MAW to set within pricing TC commodity item)
• Set ready to price indicator for spot (accumulate to own)
• Manage overfill quantities
• Create an application group
• Reverse the application document

The application work center offers a wide range of capabilities for handling various functionalities related to purchase and sales contracts, including inter and intra-company transactions. It provides an efficient way to manage exception handling, view application documents, and handle commingled scenarios with specific nodes dedicated to these purposes.

When using the application work center, you can set the Ready to Price flag for accumulate to own contracts. The work center also supports customer and vendor return processes with specific functionality tailored to these scenarios.

For contracts with multiple pricing lots, the center includes consumption logic to manage the distribution of these lots across application documents. The work center also covers topics such as warehouse receipts and loadout matching.

If you wish to group Load Data Captures (LDCs) together, you can create application groups to maintain and display them conveniently. This enables you to assign contracts to specific application groups.

Additional functionalities of the work center include the ability to split loads among multiple vendors, either manually or automatically through business rules.

You can use the MAW to perform the following tasks:

• Display the contract application details
• Set the ready to price indicator for accumulate to own contracts
• Manually assign pricing lots
• View return application documents
• Set a final delivery indicator
• Maintain and display application groups
• Split vendor ownership
• Collate the vendor split
• Split to multiple contracts
• Reverse contract assignment
• Assign contract
• Process return applications

The application work center offers a wide range of search criteria that enables users to efficiently find documents based on their specific needs.

The work center allows users to easily access and explore the details of the contract, including the application documents created and the associated workflow. Users can drill down into specific sections to get a comprehensive view of the application flow and its related processes.

The application document contains a header and item level details.

This is the application document workflow. The main documents in the basic process flow are triggered and created based on the LDC event.