SRM contracts

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Hi,

We are planning to use SRM Classic Scenario for MRO materials. We have below questions:

1.) What is Supplier Registration and Qualification? Does it available in ECC?

2) If we want to create contracts in SRM, how the buyer knows if there is a contract exist or not.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Venkat

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Q1.) What is Supplier Registration and Qualification? Does it available in ECC?

SUPPLIER REGISTRATION IS CALLED ROS -REGISTERATION OF SUPPLIER AND SCREENING.

Q2) If we want to create contracts in SRM, how the buyer knows if there is a contract exist or not.

HE CAN GO TO BBP_PD TRANSACTION AND LOOK FOR CONTRACT BUSINESS OBJECT OR BUYER MUST ABLE TO CREATE A CONTRACT IF ALL CONFIGURATION IS DONE IN SRM SIDE.

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Suppliers can register themselves using a link on the homepage of the purchasing company. On registering, the suppliers assign themselves to one or more product categories.

As a purchaser, you can define product-category-related questionnaires. You can also define questionnaires that are independent of product categories and assign these to a neutral category (dummy category). Once a supplier has registered, the registration system sends the supplier one or more questionnaires. This way, you as a purchaser have additional detailed information available on potential suppliers.

For more information on defining questionnaires, see the Supplier Relationship Management Implementation Guide (IMG): SAP Supplier Relationship Management Supplier Registration Basic Settings Create/Change Questionnaire .

Integration

This function is used in the business scenario Supplier Qualification.

You can use

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Central Contract Management

This function allows you to manage and distribute central contracts across SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) and connected SAP ERP systems. You can:

create and change a central contract and renegotiate an existing central contract directly with suppliers or by creating RFx.

use a central contract as source of supply across all connected systems, accumulating buying power into a superordinate contract using central contract hierarchies.

customize central contract distribution to your needs, whether they be for individual contracts or bulk assignments.

control access to a central contract through the assignment of authorizations.

configure the system to generate alerts (for release quantity, or expiring contracts, for example) that will help you to tailor your central contract and define its conditions as you develop it.

Integration

Initial Upload of Central Contracts and Scheduling Agreements from SAP ERP to SAP SRM

You can use program BBP_CONTRACT_INITIAL_UPLOAD to upload contracts and scheduling agreements from an SAP ERP system to an SAP SRM system. Depending on the settings you make, contracts and scheduling agreements are then uploaded from the SAP ERP system to the SAP SRM system as a central contract. Generally, this initial upload is a one-time activity performed at the time of installation in the SAP SRM back-end system. For more information, see the program documentation.

Search and Classification (TREX)

In central contracts, you can use the TREX Search Engine to carry out full-text searches in attachments, supplier texts, and notes. The TREX Search Engine is delivered with SAP SRM, but you must first install it and run program BBP_TREX_INDEX_ADMIN. This program creates a new index for existing documents and enables all new or changed documents to be indexed automatically when you save the central contract. The documents have to be indexed for the full-text search to work.

SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence

If you integrate SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence, you can use reports to evaluate and analyze your central contracts. For more information, see the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com SAP NetWeaver BI Content Supplier Relationship Management Contract Management .

Archiving

See Archiving Central Contracts (SRM-EBP-CON).

Features

Tracking

Change documents are available for all fields in central contract management. This provides an audit trail (change history).

You can also select versions of a central contract and compare changes at header level and item level between these versions. (This requires version control to be switched on in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application Basic Settings Switch On Version Control for Purchasing Documents ).

To display change documents, and to compare versions of a central contract, choose Tracking when you display the central contract.

More Information

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Central Contracts in SAP SRM

Central Contracts

Upload and management of central contracts in SAP ERP

SAP Help Portal under http://help.sap.com SAP ERP Central Component Logistics Materials Management Purchasing (MM-PUR) Outline Purchase Agreements with Vendors (MM-PUR-OA) Contract Central Contract SRM Central Contract

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