| # Copying purchase contracts You can copy existing purchase contracts to create purchase contracts in the Copy Purchase Contracts (tdpur3801m000) session. You can always copy a normal contract to a normal contract or a special contract to a special contract. Whether or not you can copy a normal contract to a special contract, and vice versa, depends on the settings of the following check boxes in the Purchase Contract Parameters (tdpur0100m300) session: Copy Special Contract to Normal Contract. Copy Normal Contract to Special Contract. If you copy to a new normal contract, to determine the default value of the contract period, LN: Assigns an effective date directly following the expiry date of the old contract Sets up a contract period of one year If you copy to a new normal contract, LN checks whether a normal contract already exists: In the same period With the same price group or item For the same buy-from business partner If such a contract already exists and the contract status is Active, copying is not allowed. Contracts are copied with a new contract number, which is determined in the same way as when you enter a new contract in the Purchase Contracts (tdpur3100m000) session, but with different effective and expiry dates. The purchase contract price revisions that are linked to the old contract with effective dates that are within the effectivity period of the new contract, are copied to the new contract. If no valid price revision exists, and you have selected the Copy Prices check box in the Copy Purchase Contracts (tdpur3801m000) session, the last price revision of the old contract is copied to the new contract's price revision with an effective date equal to the contract line's effective date. Note Discounts and discount schedules from the old price revision are not automatically included if you copy prices to the new contract's price revision. To copy discounts to the new contract's price revision as well, select the Copy Discounts check box in the Copy Purchase Contracts (tdpur3801m000) session. If price books or discount schedules of the old contract's price revision are not valid in the run time of the new contract, you can create new price books and/or new discount schedules for the new contract by selecting the Create New Price Book check box and/or the Create New Discount Schedule check box in the Copy Purchase Contracts (tdpur3801m000) session. You can copy the delivery contract(s) that are linked to the old contract to the new contract. To copy the delivery contract(s), select the Copy Delivery Contract check box in the Copy Purchase Contracts (tdpur3801m000) session. If you copy contracts, the copied contract header and the item lines are logged in the contract history files. If you selected the Copy Terminated Contract Lines check box in the Copy Purchase Contracts (tdpur3801m000) session, the terminated contract lines are also copied to the new contract. The currency of the buy-from business partner must be the same as the contract currency. If not, LN displays an error message. Buy-from business partners must have the status Active when a contract is agreed upon. A parent relation must exist between a buy-from business partner and the other business partner roles, which are given by default if the buy-from business partner is entered. Related topics Purchase contracts |