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Contract comparison

Former Member
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Dear All,

Is there anything like contract comparison in MM the way we do Quotation comparison? The business practice followed at client is, there are 20 different subsidiaries of one Group of Companies and all of them deal with common set of vendors. Now, they do not want to go for centrally agreed contracts. Each of the companies have different contracts with same vendors for the services procured. But , for same type of services, the vendor charge differently to all subsidiaries, Client wants to keep track of it and want to compare the contracts/values before they raise purchase order and assign the contract as the source of supply. Is this possible? Please suggest the best practice for solving this as well.

Thanks in Advance,

Binita Joshi

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Former Member
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Hi,

As such there is no standard function in sap to compare contracts. You need to develop a z-report . By giving the period ,system need to take the list of contracts pertaining to that period. Take desired feature (example service,price, material) to compare and give a coding for that. Take the help of ABAPer and give the tables of contracts and get it done. The tables are EKKO (HEader) and EKPO (DETAILS) . You need to know the doucment type - MK and WK for Quantity and Value Contracts.

The document type is the BSTYP field of the EKKO table. Hope it will resolve your issue. Thanking you.

former_member540826
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Dear Binita,

In the such case there is no available process for the contract comparison. You can use the following as per the convenience:

1) Create a Z development. It is a tedious job as there will not be limited fixed parameters for comparison!

2) In the SAP the reference purchase organization can be used effectively. The configuration is required to create the reference purchase organization. The reference purchase organization can be assigned to the existing purchase organization. The Contracts can be created with the reference purchase organization. This will help you to track the contracts created, you can refer to these contract in the future, The comparison process is again offline, it will help in tracking/ searching/ approval of the contracts as per the requirement.

3) you can create a separate document type as per the requirement.

I think the creation of the reference purchase organization will be helpful and more effective.

check the configuration

SPRO - Enterprise Structure -Assignment - Materials Management - Assign purch. organization to reference purch. organization

Here is the description :

Assign purch. organization to reference purch. organization

In this step, you can make the appropriate settings to enable the

purchasing staff of your enterprise to work with conditions and contract

release orders on a cross-purchasing-organization basis.

It is then possible for:

o The conditions of a reference purchasing organization to be used by

other purchasing organizations for the purpose of price

determination

o Several purchasing organizations to access the contracts of a

certain reference purchasing organization

Activities

Assign the desired purchasing organizations to a reference purchasing

organization.

Note:

You can assign several purchasing organizations to one reference

purchasing organization, but each individual purchasing organization

should be assigned to just one reference purchasing organization.

Hope this helps.