Contract

Contracts – Sales document Types
There are two types of contracts – value and quantity. Contracts can cover both goods and services. Generally no restrictions apply to the different contract forms.
A contract is an outline agreement between you and your customer that is valid for a certain time period. The contract does not contain any schedule lines delivery, quantities or delivery dates.
Rental and maintenance contracts are frequently used in the service industry.
In copying control, you decide which types of sales documents can be used as release orders from a contract.
Assortment modules (Módulo de sortimento) for value contracts are maintained in the master data for products. When you create a release order, the system checks the respective entry date against the validity period.
You can create release in any currency but the total value is updated in the currency of the contract.
You can either bill the value contract directly or you can bill each release order.


Customizing for Billing Plans
The billing plan type is determined from the document item category and the relevance for billing.
Date descriptions represent the text description for the corresponding billing dates in the billing plan.
The date categories defined have a control function at billing date level. For example, they determine which billing rule is used to settle the date, whether the billing date is a fixed date and whether a billing block is set for this date.
Date rules are needed in the billing plan, in order to define the start date and the end date, as well as to determine the corresponding billing dates.
The foundation of every date determination rule is a basis date to which a defined period is added.
Differentiation of periodic billing and milestone billing with the relevant controlling parameters is carried out via the billing plan type.
The date proposal is used exclusively for milestone billing. It determines a sequence of dates that are used as the reference for date determination during order processing