Understanding Commitment Tracking
You can set up commitment tracking to monitor subcontract obligations for a specific job or project. Each time you enter a subcontract detail line, the system recognizes the amount on the line as a commitment. You can review individual commitments and the total amount of outstanding commitments for a specific job or project.
Commitment tracking applies only to purchases for nonstock items and services (subcontracts). You must charge each detail line to a general ledger account number. The business unit component of the general ledger account number represents the job or project for which you are tracking commitments.
For a detail line to be eligible for commitment tracking, it must be associated with an order type that is listed in UDC 40/CT and it must have a line type with an Inventory Interface code of A or B. These codes indicate that the line is charged directly to a general ledger account number.
Each time you enter a subcontract detail line for which commitment tracking is applicable, the system records the amount in the purchase amount (PA) ledger and the purchase unit (PU) ledger.
The PA ledger contains committed subcontract amounts. The PU ledger contains committed subcontract units.