Requirement of E-sourcing and e-CLM (contract life cycle management) in SRM

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

Does one need to install e-sourcing and eCLM (contract life cycle management) in SRM 7.0 to take the benefit of full functionality available in SRM 7.0?

My understanding says that e-Sourcing and CLM are not must for SRM 7.0. They are basically available separately as on demand product who may not have SRM landscape.

Any ideas shared will be highly appreciated.

Reagrds,

Ranjan

[Former Member]

Hi Muthu/Emily,

Thanks for the clarification.

Regards,

Ranjan

[Former Member]

Hi Ranjan -

The answer is NO, you do not need E-Sourcing/CLM to install and work with the contract functionality in SRM 7.0. These are completely different products / systems. The contracts functionality in CLM is oriented toward contract authoring / qualitative information management about contracts, while the functionality in SRM is more oriented toward the quantitative contract information/execution of the contracts against orders.

Hope this helps,

Emily

[former_member183819]

/people/tridip.chakraborthy/blog/2010/01/11/sap-clm-the-answer-to-an-enterprise-wide-contracts-solution

please check up with tridip

/people/marko.navala/blog/2009/02/02/sap-e-sourcing-integration-to-erp-and-srm

muthu