Create Trading Contract, Trading Contract: Create
Application component: Trading Contract
App type: SAP GUI
Description:  In a trading company, usually one person or department carries out both buying and selling procedures. The simultaneous sales and purchasing data entry on one screen is necessary to avoid redundant data entries and reduce missed operations. With a two-sided trading contract, the system can create follow-on documents on sales and purchase side after the release. In the trading contract document header, you can maintain sales-side and purchase-side data that is copied to each line item. You can create multiple purchase orders out of a trading contract to fulfill the required quantity of the sales order if necessary. Trading contracts are, therefore, sales-order-driven documents. Trading contracts can also be used as one-sided contracts, such as purchase-side-only trading contracts or sales-side-only trading contracts. You need to associate one-sided trading contracts using position management. The Trading Contract component enables you to implement numerous different business transactions for integrating sales documents and purchase documents. Depending on your business requirements, you can create, for example, the following trading contract types:  Domestic trading contract Import trading contract Export trading contract Off-shore trading contract (a deal with a third country or region)  
Key features: The Trading Contract component is a center of trading business. It incorporates sales orders, purchase orders, and Supplier Billing Documents and Expense Settlement for trading expenses. Users can monitor the processing status of all subsequent transactions associated with the trading contract via extended document flow. When you enter data in the trading contract, it also provides an accurate profit simulation report, including all the costs and revenue elements. After the deals are completed and all the data is transferred to accounting, you can use the trading contract number to check the actual profit. The Trading Contract component provides support for the following:  Multiple units of measure Multiple currencies Trade pricing Partner functions Portfolio assignment Open order/Delivery control Incompleteness check Status control and release check Copy control Text Control Contract closing Quantity-matching check Risk management check Document flow Central output control Supplier evaluation  Credit check   Compliance checks   Profit simulation   Batch management   You can use side panels in the trading contract. Prerequisites for this are that you use the SAP NetWeaver Business Client (at least version 3.5), and that a role that contains the transactions of the trading contract is assigned to the respective users. Once these prerequisites are fulfilled, the role SAP_BSSP_LO_SIDEPANEL must be assigned to the respective users, in transaction SU01. 
Business roles: Operations Clerk (ACM)| Settlement Clerk (ACM)| Trader| Trader (ACM)
Settlement Clerk (Agricultural Contract Management) : 
Compiles and computes payment due and recoveries to be made for ACM.

Trader (Agricultural Contract Management) : 
Maintains schedule, prices and executes spot contracts, trading contracts etc. for ACM.

Trader : 
Buys and sells physical products with a special focus on profitability and end to end service.

Operations Clerk (Agricultural Contract Management) : 
Perform clerical or administrative duties in a variety of business for ACM.