Central Contract Management

This function allows you to manage and distribute central contracts across SAP S
upplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) and connected SAP ERP systems. You can
:
create and change a central contract and renegotiate an existing central contrac
t directly with suppliers or by creating RFx.
use a central contract as source of supply across all connected systems, accumul
ating buying power into a superordinate contract using central contract hierarch
ies.
customize central contract distribution to your needs, whether they be for indiv
idual 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 contr
acts, 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 SA
P SRM
You can use program BBP_CONTRACT_INITIAL_UPLOAD to upload contracts and scheduli
ng agreements from an SAP ERP system to an SAP SRM system. Depending on the sett
ings you make, contracts and scheduling agreements are then uploaded from the SA
P ERP system to the SAP SRM system as a central contract. Generally, this initia
l 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 de
livered with SAP SRM, but you must first install it and run program BBP_TREX_IND
EX_ADMIN. This program creates a new index for existing documents and enables al
l 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 eva
luate and analyze your central contracts. For more information, see the SAP Help
Portal at http://help.sap.com SAP NetWeaver BI Content Supplier Relationsh
ip Management Contract Management .
Archiving
See Archiving Central Contracts (SRM-EBP-CON).
Features
Tracking
Change documents are available for all fields in central contract management. Th
is 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 S
RM Server Cross-Application Basic Settings Switch On Version Control for Purch
asing Documents ).
To display change documents, and to compare versions of a central contract, choo
se Tracking when you display the central contract.