Few more questions on central contract functionality?

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

I am sorry to bombard you with few more questions on central contract functionality available in SRM 7.0.

Few of them may be chilly questions for you:

1. Contract Owner: Who can be a contract owner for a central contract? does he need to be a member of the Purchasing group which has created the contract?

2. While creating the central contract , I got an error message ' Supplier 10000 not intended for Purchase Organisation XYZ'.

What needs to be done in such case? Since there is no info record functionality in SRM, do we need to create interlinkage or Vendor/Supplier list. for the product and Supplier?

3. Exchange rate Threshold:

What is the significance of exchange rate threshold? Does the contract get blocked from used once the exchange rate reaches the upper limit or lower limit of exchange rate defined?

4. Item level Approval?

Does a central contract can be subjected to item level approval in addition to header level approval? If that is the case, how the approver at item level decided? is it Adhoc approver process or can it automated say based on Product category level?

5. Block local sourcing: What is the significance of the functionality 'Block Local Sourcing' at the item level of a central contract?

Does it mean that the contract item can not be used as a source of supply in SRM Sourcing cockpit? It has to used as a source of supply for items in the respective ERP backend systems.

Thanks in advance,

Ranjan

[summer_wang · Accepted solution]

Hi

Please maintain the supplier in purchasing organisation in SRM

Is it a GOA which will be posted to backend ? if so , please check the backend support package level.

Please have a look at note 1026168

Summer