Our business has five main Rebate Agreement (Arrangement) Calendars :
October to September
July to June
April to March
August to July
January to December
There are additionally, some other validity periods that we might use, such as six-monthly, however the above five calendars probably account for 80-90% of our Rebate Agreements.
The problem :
We want to be able to use Rebate Agreement Calendars to automatically extend Agreements for a further 12 months. However, my understanding is that each Rebate Agreement Type is only designed to work with a single Calendar, therefore we would have to create a further four copies of an Agreement Type, each with a different calendar assigned. E.g. :
RA Type Calendar Description
ZR01 R1 October to September
ZR02 R2 July to June
ZR03 R3 April to March
ZR04 R4 August to July
ZR05 R5 January to December
and the same for all other Agreement Types we use. This would result in a ridiculous amount of duplicate/needless configuration.
We have unlocked the screen field to be able to change the Arrangement Calendar in VBO1/VBO2. However, we still have to set a default Calendar in config, via txn VB(2, and that default flows through to the RA on creation. Although it is then possible to overtype the Calendar, only the default appears in a picklist, which is confusing to the user. In addition, even if we overtype it, if we then extend the RA via VB(D, the Calendar maintained on the individual RA will be ignored, with the Calendar taken from config again.
I find it hard to believe that we are the only company wanting to use Rebate Agreement (Arrangement) Calendars in this way, is there something obvious I'm missing ?
Many thanks, Paul.
| | | ---------------Original Message---------------
From: Paul
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:40 PM
Subject: Rebate Agreement Calendars
We want to be able to use Rebate Agreement Calendars to automatically extend Agreements, generally for a further 3 or 12 months. However, our Rebate Partners have differing requirements as to when their Reporting year runs, e.g. it could be July to June, October to September etc. Do I really have to setup a different Agreement Type for each differing calendar ? I.e. if I come up with say, 8 annual & quarterly calendars, I will need 8 variations of a given Rebate Agreement Type ? I believe the functionality would be more useful if you could set the specific calendar within each Agreement. Alternatively, are there any userexits in Rebate processing that might enable me to override this ?
Any help much appreciated,
Cheers, Paul. |
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