Vendors Unable to Check-In Contract Documents (e-Sourcing 5.1 Patch 06)

[Former Member]

Vendors Unable to Check-In Contract Documents (e-Sourcing 5.1 Patch 06)

When moving to patch 06 for e-Sourcing we found that Vendors were no longer able to check-in contract documents, even though they checked them out successfully.

On Patch 05 this was not an issue with the exact same configuration.

Has anyone had any encounters with this?

- Is there a permission that needs to be set to something specific? I tried create/read/edit but that doesn't seem to work.

Thanks.

[james_wojnicki]

Hi Greg,

Check to see if the Vendor Security Profile (fci.profile.vendor) has Create, Read & Edit access for Document Versions (doccommon.DocumentVersion). If this is set up properly then you should be able to check in & check out unless there is a issue with SP6.

Regards,

James

[Former Member]

Hi James,

We did confirm that the vendor profile CREATE, EDIT, and READ. Still no luck.

For now we're back to using patch 05 as it has no issue with the same security rights settings.

Thanks,

Greg

[former_member183819]

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[Former Member]

When working with a Master Agreement or Sub Agreement within e-Sourcing you can attach Contract Documents (Word files) that you and the vendor can collaboratively work on.

Just like a source control system you can check out a document to make edits to ensure that no one else makes edits at the same time. You then must check back in the document to remove the 'lock'.

On patch level 06 we found that although Vendors could perform the Check-out procedure (On a Contract Document click Actions -> Check-Out) they are not permitted to then check-in the document (Actions -> Check-In).

Buyside users do not experience any issues with check-out/in.

Hope that helps clear up the issue.

Thanks,

Greg

[former_member183819]

Thanks Greg for your reply. Indeed understand now what is check in and checkout.

we dont have concept called check in and check out in GOA -Global outline agreemnt. Here you are giving oppurtunity to supplier to finalise / edit and agree the contract

in GOA , just buyer negotiate the vendor price and conditions and send a mail with smartforms from the buyer to supplier.

and we use this contract as purchasing contract in ECC .

Muthu

[Former Member]

No resolution as of yet. We have rolled back to patch 05 and opened a ticket with SAP.