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After sourcing in the SAP Sourcing system, you can define that a contract or scheduling agreement is created in the SAP ERP system from the award for the SAP Sourcing RFx response (RFP).

Prerequisites

For information about the system settings required, see Working with Purchasing Documents from SAP Sourcing.

The SAP Sourcing system does not transfer account assignments. If you use free-text items in contracts, you must define an account assignment category with unknown consumption posting in Customizing in your SAP ERP system, under   Materials Management   Purchasing   Account Assignment   Maintain Account Assignment Categories  .

Features

If you select contract or scheduling agreement as the document type in the SAP Sourcing system, an outline agreement is created in the SAP ERP system from the SAP Sourcing award. The items in the corresponding outline agreement requisitions are set to Completed.

As soon as the SAP Sourcing RFx response (RFP) is created, the system writes the ID of the RFP document at item level to the outline agreement requisition and the request for quotation (RFQ).

The SAP Sourcing system does not transfer account assignments.

  • If you request materials for which material master data exists in the SAP ERP system, you can record account assignment data in the outline agreement requisition. When you create a contract from the SAP Sourcing award, the SAP ERP system copies the account assignment from the outline agreement requisition item to the corresponding contract item.

  • Free-text items without a material number always require an account assignment. When you create a contract from the SAP Sourcing award, the corresponding contract items are created with account assignment category Unknown. You must enter the account assignments you require later in the SAP ERP system.

  • The SAP ERP system cannot create scheduling agreements with an unknown consumption posting. If you want to publish scheduling agreements in SAP ERP from SAP Sourcing awards, you must define standard settings for account assignments in the SAP ERP system. To define default account assignments that the SAP ERP system uses when creating scheduling agreements, Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) MEOUT_BAPI_CUST and MEOUT_BAPI_CUST_01 are available. You must change this default account assignment data later in the scheduling agreement.

In contracts and scheduling agreements, the system writes the document number of the related SAP RFx to the texts at item level.