The planning agreement is a long-term purchase agreement in which you issue the planning agreements whenever the request changes or at specified time intervals. The planning agreement can be made on an hourly/daily/weekly/monthly basis. But it will contain different areas, namely business/compromise/forecast. Fixed area plans are confirmed requirements and must be adopted by the designated party. The requirement of the compromise area is the purchase of raw materials and the customer is obliged to pay the costs of raw materials in case of cancellation of the request. The requirement of the forecast area is intended to help the supplier plan its needs. Planning agreements, on the other hand, are based more on quantities, but also on specific delivery quantities on certain delivery dates (this is called calendar lines). One could easily say that these are more binding quantitative contracts – but in data analysis in SAP® they appear separately with their own category of documents compared to quantity or value contracts. But we focus on it later. Now it becomes exciting (at least for data analysts): framework agreements such as quantity contracts, value contracts, and planning agreements are not stored in their own tables, but also in EKKO and EKPO tables.
So don`t get confused by the names or take them too literally. To refer to standard commands, you can, for example. B use the ME23N transaction; T-Code ME33K shows you contracts, and ME33L is the right choice for planning agreements. You can see that the Mnemonic K and L document category also appears in some cases in transactions. It`s a bit more technical, but for the sake of completeness, here`s a screenshot of the table of document types with customization settings in SAP®, if they`re needed for data analysis purposes. The number ranges for the corresponding document types, e.B. Parameters for selecting fields, etc. are contained in this table: In this blog I would like to give you an overview of the framework agreements in SAP® in the Purchasing module. In addition to describing the concept itself, I`m going to give you an overview of mapping from a data analysis perspective, in other words, SAP® tables and at the field level.
The framework agreement is nothing more than a long-term purchase contract with the seller, which contains certain conditions for the raw material provided by the seller. .