Businesses enter into contractual agreements with their trading partners, and as part of the contractual agreement will have commitments to fulfill. The commitments on the business documents, besides products and services bought or sold, are classified as deliverables, under the Terms and Conditions of the business document. In addition to the contractual commitments that businesses need to fulfill, they might define other internal tasks that contribute to the overall execution of the business document.
You can define deliverables as part of the contract template creation process. If a business document refers to a contract template, all deliverables associated to that contract template are copied to the business document.
Note: You can only define deliverables for contract templates with the Buy intent.
When a contract template is applied to a business document, you can update the deliverables that have become part of the business document, and you can create new deliverables specifically for the business document.
Note: If you want to see information about deliverables in the preview output of a business document, you must create one or more special "deliverables" clauses. For more information, see Deliverable Variables in Clauses.
You can perform the following operations on deliverables in contract templates and business documents:
For deliverables in business documents, you can check which deliverables are overdue, and if any responsible party failed to perform one or more deliverables. In addition, you can update the status of the deliverables in the business documents.
Note: The term "overdue" applies to deliverables where the due date has passed, and the deliverable status is either Open or Rejected.
The following list shows the operations that you can perform only on deliverables in business documents: