Set up a Data Link for a Sales or Purchase Contract

The contract in which the data link is configured is called the source contract. When despatch orders are created for the source contract product, MineMarket creates the target despatch order(s) for the contract product in the target contract(s).

Security Note: You need the Allow contract maintenance security right in the Contracts domain security rights group for this activity.

Activity Steps

  1. Open the source Sales Contract or Purchase Contract.
  2. Expand the node for the required contract product below the Contract Products node.
  3. Select the Data Links node for the contract product.
  4. Right-click in the Data Links table and select New from the menu.

    The Contract Explorer displays as a dialog box. See Find Sales or Purchase Contracts for descriptions of the search criteria.

  5. Search for and select the required target contract.
  6. To base the data link properties on a template, select the Data Link Template from the data link templates defined on the Organisations panel of the Solution Explorer.
  7. Click OK.

    The data link displays in the Data Links table. The Contract is read-only.

    Note: See Data Link Templates for fuller descriptions of the data link properties.

  8. Select the Contract Product from the contract products in the target contract. The selected contract product cannot already be the target contract product for this source contract product. Circular data links are also not possible.
  9. Select how Weights And Assays are linked from Yes (default, unless otherwise specified in the data link template), No and Prorated By Traded Quantity.
  10. If Weights And Assays is Yes, select whether to Allow Assay Exchange. If checked, an assay exchange can be performed for each target despatch order using the assay rules and analyte settlement rules of the target contract. If unchecked, an assay exchange can only be performed for source despatch orders, and target despatch orders inherit the final results from their source despatch order. Default: As specified in the data link template, or else unchecked.
  11. Select how Cost Mirroring applies from:
    • Full—Each selected cost is mirrored with its full inverted value.
    • No (default, unless otherwise specified in the data link template)
    • Prorated By Quantity—The value of costs with a Rate Detail Basis of Fixed Amount or Fixed Amount Per Despatch Order is adjusted based on the traded quantity or else the relative quantities in the source despatch order and each target despatch order. Costs with any other rate detail basis are mirrored with their full inverted value.

    Note: If Cost Mirroring is Full or Prorated By Quantity, when despatch orders are created, cost and applicable service charge rate details (that are configured in the contract terms) are auto-mirrored. However, if Reinvoice Costs is checked in the contract settings, MineMarket auto-mirrors the reinvoiced costs, not the original rate details. See Specify Invoice Settings for a Sales or Purchase Contract.

  12. Select whether to Create Invoices for the target despatch order(s) when the source despatch order is invoiced. Default: As specified in the data link template, or else unchecked.
  13. Select whether Risk Transfer applies so that when control passes for the source despatch order, control also passes for the target despatch order(s). Default: As specified in the data link template, or else unchecked.
  14. Click Save.