Central Contract Distribution 
As a strategic purchaser using the SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) system, you can allow a purchasing organization to use a central contract negotiated by the central purchasing department. You can define that a central contract can be distributed to your SAP ERP system and to the SRM-MDM catalog.
As a result, local purchasing organizations can order materials and services based on these negotiated contracts.
Use Central Contracts as Source of Supply for External Services
You can distribute central contracts with service hierarchies into back-end systems so that they can also be considered as a source of supply.
To use this function, you must activate the business function SRM, Service Procurement Innovations (SRM_SERVICE_PROC_1).
The following Customizing activity is relevant: 
SAP Supplier Relationship Management 
SRM Server Cross-Application Basic Settings Service Procurement Activate
Central Contract Management Innovations (EHP1) 
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Prerequisites
You have been assigned the Strategic Purchaser role (portal role com.sap.pct.srm.ro_strategicpurchaser, SRM Server role SAP_EC_BBP_ST_PURCHASER).
Purchasing organizations must be authorized to create releases against contracts.
You have defined the relevant back-end systems in Customizing.
Activities
Note
The central contract is created in each specified release-authorized purchasing organization with a different number. The contract numbers (SAP SRM contracts and SAP ERP contracts) are displayed on the Tracking tab page. When you subsequently search for contracts, the system displays both the SAP SRM contract number and the number under which it is known in the respective SAP ERP systems.
New Distribution Screen
A single point of access enables you to define who can use contracts as a source of supply and in which SAP ERP system you can use them. The new distribution screen has two views:
On the first view, which is called Maintenance of Distribution Values, you can select the release-authorized purchasing organizations.
On the second view, which is called Assignment of Distribution Values, you assign the contract items (materials or services) to the purchasing organizations selected in the first view. You can select one item, several items, or all items at once.
The sum of the target values for all items can be calculated with a single click in the Maintenance of Distribution Values view.
Release-authorized purchasing organizations and the assigned items with their corresponding values are subsequently displayed on the Distribution tab on header and item level of the contract.
At header level, the target values for the whole contract, with all items aggregated, are displayed. At item level, you can see which release value for each item has been assigned to which purchasing organization.
By default, every item in a central contract is available locally as a source of supply. If you do not want the items to be available locally, set the Block Local Sourcing indicator on the General Data tab page.
To use this function, you must activate the business function SRM, Service Procurement Innovations (SRM_SERVICE_PROC_1).
The following Customizing activity is relevant: SAP Supplier Relationship Management SRM Server Cross-Application Basic Settings Service Procurement Activate
Central Contract Management Innovations (EHP1) .
If you have not activated the business function SRM_SERVICE_PROC_1, you have to assign the distribution values on item level, as the overall distribution tab page is not available.
Distribute Central Contract to Back-End Systems
Item Level
When you create a central contract, you can specify that it is distributed to one or more back-end systems. At item level, you can enter release-authorized purchasing organizations by choosing the Assign Distribution pushbutton. Additionally, you can enter data such as Location and Target Value for each back-end system.
Assigning distribution in this way can be particularly useful if you have many items, as it simplifies the process.
By default, every item in a central contract is available as a source of supply locally. If you do not want the items to be available locally, set the Block Local Sourcing indicator on the General Data tab page.
Header Level
The header level of a contract provides you with the distribution overview of a contract.
Choose Calculate Target Value to display an overview of the target values for each release-authorized purchasing organization. You only need to do this when creating the contract.
Distribution Technology
Central contracts are distributed to SAP ERP back-end systems on enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP and higher using SAP's service-oriented architecture (SOA).
For all other releases, you can distribute central contacts using IDocs.
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