commercials

16:18 May 20, 2013 

négociations commerciales et délais supplémentaires ??
Il est bien précisé que ce qui conditionne ces "commercials", ce sont les changements dans les éléments livrables, d'où cette déduction.

12:49 May 20, 2013 

Don't be put off by the use of 'attract' — this is nothing to do with non-native EN, it is perfectly standard, everyday commercial EN.

It simply has the sort of sense of 'be subject to' (although that particular expression would read awkwardly here in this text).

"Bulk orders for more than 100 units will attract a 5% discount"

NS OED:

attract vt

1 (tend to) draw to oneself or itself, cause to come near, esp. (a)... (b)... (c) by presenting favourable conditions or opportunities
...

In the sense as used here, you could consider it as meaning 'entail' or 'lead to' or 'incur' (perhaps less appropriate in this specific usage).

12:43 May 20, 2013 

that's makes me doubt about the translation here... I mean, you don't "attract" operations/transactions/documents do you? Except ofcourse if this is written by a non-native english speaker, which I don't know.
As for Anne's proposal, 'ventes' seems wrong here, as this is about performance of services, not sales...

12:14 May 20, 2013 

I now work in a UK company and the non-commercial part of the company talks of the sales department doing "the commercials" of a particular project, meaning negotiations / contracts / signing commercial documents (etc) for that project. It's quite informal though.

12:07 May 20, 2013 

...it means 'commercial operations / transactions' — i.e. presumably something that is going to affect not only the lead-time, but also the price!

However, I must make it clear that this is only a hunch, I don't have any specific knowledge of this term!