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Oracle® Fusion Applications Enterprise Contracts Implementation Guide
11g Release 7 (11.1.7)
Part Number E20371-07
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18 Define Procurement Contracts Configurations

This chapter contains the following:

Specify Supplier Contract Management Business Function Properties

Specify Supplier Contract Management Business Function Properties

Supplier Contracts Business Unit Setup: Explained

Using the Specify Supplier Contract Management Business Function Properties task, available by selecting Setup and Maintenance from the Tools menu and searching on the task name, you can specify a variety of business function settings for supplier contracts in a specific business unit.

The selections you make for these business functions impact how the Contract Terms Library behaves during supplier contract authoring.

Managing Contract Terms Library Setup Options

The setup options available for the Contract Terms Library are applicable to both customer and supplier contracts, and are described in the business unit setup topic for the Contract Terms Library. That topic is available as a related link to this topic.

Contract Terms Library Business Unit Setup: Explained

You can specify a wide variety of Contract Terms Library settings for either customer or supplier contracts within each business unit, by using either the Specify Customer Contract Management Business Function Properties or the Specify Supplier Contract Management Business Function Properties tasks. These tasks are available by navigating to the Setup and Maintenance work area and searching on the task name.

For the Contract Terms Library in each business unit, you can:

Enabling Clause Adoption

If you plan to use clause adoption in your implementation, then set up the following:

Setting Clause Numbering Options

You can set up automatic clause numbering for the clauses in the business unit by selecting Automatic in the Clause Numbering field and entering a Document Sequence Category you previously set up in the Clause Sequence Category field. If clause numbering is manual, contract terms library administrators must enter unique clause numbers each time they create a clause.

You can choose to display the clause number in front of the clause title in contracts by selecting the Display Clause Number in Clause Title option.

Enabling Contract Expert

You must select the Enable Contract Expert option to be able to use the Contract Expert feature in a business unit. This setting takes precedence over enabling Contract Expert for individual contract terms templates.

Specifying the Printed Clause and Deviations Report Layouts

For each business unit, you can specify the Oracle BI Publisher RTF file that serves as the layout for:

Contract Fulfillment: How It Works

Contract fulfillment makes it possible for you to track goods, services, reports and other fulfillment items you are purchasing in buy-intent contracts. Depending on the type of contract you are creating, you can use contract fulfillment to initiate the creation purchase orders or purchase agreements within Oracle Fusion Purchasing or in other integrated purchasing applications and monitor their fulfillment from within the contract. This topic explains how you create and work with contract fulfillment.

This figure illustrates how you can create and work with both contractual and noncontractual fulfillment lines and how you can initiate purchasing activity from those fulfillment lines:

  1. You can create a fulfillment either on the contract header or on individual contract lines by selecting either the Autocreate Fulfillment Lines or the Create fulfillment actions. The Autocreate Fulfillment Lines action creates the fulfillment line and copies the contract basic header or contract line information to the fulfillment line so you do not have to enter it manually.

    Selecting the Autocreate Fulfillment Lines action from the header automatically creates one fulfillment line per contract line. If there are no contract lines, then the application creates one fulfillment based on the header details provided the contract type is of class Purchase Agreement. You cannot autocreate fulfillment lines for contracts without contract lines if the contract type class is Enterprise Contract.

  2. Review the notifications that are sent automatically to interested parties regarding fulfillment progress and deadlines. The contract type can be set up to automatically specify who gets notified and when. You can change and add additional notifications for the contract.

  3. If you are using the fulfillment to initiate the purchase of goods and services using the integrated purchasing applications, then you must enter the required purchasing details. For autocreated fulfillment, these details are copied automatically from the corresponding contract lines.

  4. When the contract is approved and becomes active, you can initiate the creation of the purchasing documents in one of the purchasing applications. When you do, the application validates the information you entered to make sure it meets all the requirements of the purchasing application and creates the purchasing document. If it does not you must edit the fulfillment to enter additional information.

  5. After the purchasing document is created in the purchasing application, you can monitor the progress of its execution.

  6. You can mark a fulfillment as complete after execution of the purchasing document is completed.

This figure outlines how you work with
contract fulfillment.

Creating a Contract Fulfillment

If the fulfillment you are creating is related to the information entered in the contract, then you can select the Autocreate Fulfillment Lines action to create a fulfillment line in either the contract Header tab or the Lines tab. Using Autocreate Fulfillment Lines on the contract header creates a single fulfillment line for each contract line. On the Lines tab, you can select individual contract lines where you want to create a fulfillment.

Select the Create fulfillment action in the Fulfillment tab to create a completely new fulfillment.

Tip

You can create multiple fulfillment lines for a single contract line if you need the fulfillment line items to be shipped to different destinations, for example. This is accomplished by autocreating a fulfillment line, duplicating it, and then editing the fulfillment line information.

Setting Up Fulfillment Notifications

You can specify which internal contacts are automatically notified about contract fulfillment milestones and when.

You can notify internal contacts:

Different notification types are available for different fulfillment types. Some notifications may already be specified for you by the contract type you selected to create your contract.

Creating the Purchasing Document

Before you initiate the purchasing document by selecting either the Create Purchase Order or Create Purchase Agreement actions, you must enter all purchasing information required by the purchasing document you are creating and wait until the contract is approved.

You can create one purchase document from multiple contract fulfillment lines. For example, selecting all the fulfillment lines created from contract lines when creating a purchase order, creates one PO with lines corresponding to each of the fulfillment lines.

The application validates your entries to make sure you have entered all the required information. You must correct any errors you receive and resubmit you request. You know that the purchase document is successfully created when the fulfillment status changes to the PO Created or Agreement Created status.

Note

Purchase orders are created automatically in Oracle Fusion Purchasing, but agreements are created only when you run the Import Blanket Agreements and Import Contract Agreements processes from the Purchasing work area as described in a related topic.

Monitoring Purchasing Activity

You can monitor the status of the purchasing activity for the fulfillment on the Purchasing Activity tab.

Note

For all agreements and purchase orders created in Oracle Fusion Purchasing, the tab information is updated each time you run the Track Purchasing Activity process as described in a related topic.

Specifying Purchasing Activity for a Fulfillment is Complete

You can specify the purchasing activity on a fulfillment is complete by selecting the Complete action on the Fulfillment tab. You also use this action to indicate fulfillment lines with no purchasing documents are complete.