| # Purchase Contracts - by Purchase Office (tdpur3505m000) Use this session to view purchase contracts by purchase office. Related topics Purchase contracts Default purchase office Purchase Office A department in your organization that is responsible for buying the materials and services needed by your organization. You assign number groups to the purchase office. In this way, you can assign serial numbers to: Purchase orders Purchase schedules Requests for quotations Purchase contracts You can also define a default warehouse where goods ordered by the purchase office must be delivered. Contract The number of the purchase contract. Buy-from Business Partner The business partner from whom you order goods or services; this usually represents a supplier's sales department. The definition includes the default price and discount agreements, purchase-order defaults, delivery terms, and the related ship-from and invoice-from business partner. Status The status of the purchase contract. You can assign a status to each contract with the following buttons in the Purchase Contracts (tdpur3100m000) session: Terminate Activate De-activate Note You can also maintain the status at contract line level in the Purchase Contract Lines (tdpur3101m000) session. A contract can have the following statuses: Free: When a contract is created, the contract status is automatically set to Free. If a contract has the Free status, you can make changes to the contract. Active: You can link a purchase order/schedule/quotation to a contract with the Active status. If the status is Active and the Maintaining Contracts Always Allowed check box in the Purchase Contract Parameters (tdpur0100m300) session is cleared, you cannot deactivate the contract. Terminated: After a contract is terminated, the contract can no longer be used. |