About System for Award Management Setup

Before users can work with the System for Award Management (SAM) feature in Federal Financials, an application implementation consultant must complete some setup tasks.

Here’s the setup tasks required for SAM:

• Assign the SAM user to the predefined Federal System for Award Management Administrator job role.

• Enable the Enforce supplier hold setting in the Configure Procurement Business Function setup task. You can find the task in the Setup and Maintenance work area, Procurement Foundation functional area.
• Opt in to the Create Supplier Sites with Longer Names feature.
• Opt in to the Approve Internal Changes on Supplier Profile feature.
• Configure the SAM supplier profile change approval rules to automatically approve or reject changes to SAM supplier information.