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
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
About |
See |
|---|---|
Central Contracts in SAP SRM |
|
Upload and management of central contracts in SAP ERP |
SAP Help Portal under http://help.sap.com |