Overview

PeopleSoft Supplier Contract Management provides the capability to use third-party digital signatures for internal as well as external users to sign off on contract documents. Digital signatures are cryptographically-based signature assurance schemes. They are often used in the context of public key infrastructure (PKI) schemes in which the public key used in the signature scheme is tied to a user by a digital identity certificate issued by a certificate authority.

Digital signatures provide:

• Document integrity that verifies the document content has not been altered.

• User authentication that verifies the document came from the person you think sent it.

• Non-repudiation that verifies a level of proof regarding who electronically signed the document and what they signed.