The posting is often carried out from a department other than sales, for example export coordinator.
From delivery agreementa Delivery Agreement, a posting document is created.
When you do this is done, the futures contract information from delivery the Delivery agreement will be transferred to the sales document, in our this example to a sales order. You will receive a similar message when creating the posting document:
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Sales Order.
The sales order will have the same information as the delivery agreement:
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When posting, posting date is often changed. You will then be asked if you want to update the exchange rate. You should answer "No" in case the document has a futures contract assigned to it. However, if you accidentally update the exchange rate and it will then be different from the futures contract rate, you will receive an error message when you try to post: |
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Posting is canceled and you must correct exchange rate on sales order (equal to the futures contract) to continue.
After you post the sales order, you receive a similar message:
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Corresponding customer ledger entire[s] are updated with forward rate from futures contract and CFC Contract number .
The fast tab “Lines” og Lines and the Currency Futures Contract, updates with information from posted sales invoice:
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