Foreign Trade Cockpit in SAP MM

Use

The Foreign Trade Cockpit has several functions that enable you to monitor and update foreign

trade data in export and import documents, system master records and settings in the

Implementation Guide.

To go to the Foreign Trade Cockpit from the SAP main menu, choose Logistics → Sales and

distribution (or Materials management) → Foreign Trade/Customs → Cockpit → Cockpit -

General Foreign Trade processing.

Completion Checks – The Basis of the FT Cockpit

For most activities in the Foreign Trade Cockpit, the system can generate incompletion worklists

that display the status of each document or record individually using a green, yellow or red traffic

signal. The incompletion worklists display all documents or records responding to the selection

criteria and indicate whether foreign trade data is complete (green signal) in the selected

documents.

From these worklists, you can directly access documents that need to be changed and enter the

necessary data. You can also activate incompletion worklists to display only records that need to

be processed.

Features

The Initial Screen – General Foreign Trade Processing

There are five sections on the initial screen of the Foreign Trade Cockpit:

Section	Function
Operative Cockpit	Daily worklist for FT data in documents
Strategic Cockpit	Journal and Evaluations
Monitoring	Master record display and maintenance
Master data	Maintenance links
Environment	Important IMG links

On the initial screen, there is an additional area that you can fill with a picture or text. You can

include the standard picture or a text in this screen by choosing Environment → Maintain user

data from the initial screen. The standard picture is SD_FT_PRO_START. You can create a

standard text for display in this section using transaction SO10.

Operative Cockpit

You use the Operative Cockpit to view and update documents on a regular basis. For example,

you use it to perform tasks that are included in your daily workload.

With this task, you can select import documents (purchase orders and goods receipts) and export

documents (deliveries and invoices). You use variants to limit the documents selected.

Since the Operative Cockpit is intended for use as a "working tool”, you should

generally design variants to select documents for a short time period only.

For example, using the Operative Cockpit, you can display and modify the actual

export or import documents that have entered the system today.

You can also use the Operative Cockpit to display your workload by generating a list

of documents for exports that are planned during the upcoming week. You can then

make any necessary changes to complete the foreign trade information in the

documents associated with those exports in advance.