Strategic Cockpit in SAP MM

The Strategic Cockpit provides Journal tasks that you can use to list activities that have already

taken place, for example, on a weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual basis. It provides access to

import and export data to create periodic activity statements.

An important feature of the Strategic Cockpit is the effective use of the general list viewer. With

the general list viewer, you can display and sort foreign trade activities, for example, according

to

• Vendors

• Customs procedures (for example, inward or outward processing)

• Value of imports or exports

• Bonded warehouses

Monitoring (of master data)

With the Monitoring tasks, you can check whether foreign trade data is complete in master

records and generate a list of records with missing data. See Foreign Trade Data Check in

Master Records.

You can also maintain foreign trade data in these records using the normal system menus. See

Foreign Trade Data in Master Records.

Master data (maintenance)

You can use tasks in the Master data section as a link to check or modify a single master record,

for example, to see whether the foreign trade data has been maintained for a particular material.

Environment (IMG links)

Tasks in the Environment section are linked to the Implementation Guide (IMG). They allow you

to make direct changes in the corresponding IMG tables.

The tables in this section do not include all the tables you need to set up the system

for using Foreign Trade but rather includes tables that need to be modified on a

relatively frequent basis.

Integration

This function is integrated with SD and MM for the maintenance of import and export documents.

Prerequisites

Before this function can display the incompletion lists properly, you need to set up the

corresponding tables in Customizing.

To define the incompletion procedures that you want to use at the header or item level, choose

Sales and Distribution → Foreign Trade/Customs → Control Foreign Trade Data in MM and SD

Documents → Incompleteness Schemas for Foreign Trade Data.

To assign the relevant incompletion procedure to the import and export country, choose Sales

and Distribution → Foreign Trade/Customs → Control Foreign Trade Data in MM and SD

Documents → Foreign Trade Data in MM and SD Documents. This is also the table where you

set the flag "Save Incompletion Log".

Important: You need to set the flag "Save Incompletion Log" in Table V_T609S

(Foreign Trade Data: Control System Response). This is the function that analyzes

the completeness of entries in table EIUV. When you set this flag, the system

records the incomplete documents in table EIUV based on the fields selected in the

incompletion procedure.

If you select documents that were created before activating the incompletion task or

if you have changed the incompletion configuration for foreign trade data in the

customizing tables, it is possible that documents that are “complete” are indicated as

“incomplete” in the incompletion worklist. In this case, you need to run the

reorganization tasks by using the transaction codes created for this purpose.

Afterwards, the entries in the lists and in the documents will be identical