GOA - Good practice in your projects

[former_member183819]

Hi All

Are you changing the following things in your GOA ?

1.Target value of contract - Intially you create a contract for 10,000 INR and later can you change the same contract to 99,9999 INR? i think it is allowed is srm

2.Can you change the Contract validity date ? iniatiially you create a contarct validity date is 2009.09.01 and later can you extend the contract validity date to 2010.12.12 ?

Ability to extend the contract ?

Abiility to change the target value data ?

Are you do maintance of contract ?

What piece of data buyr many change after creaing original goa ? for eg. set inactive material . what piece of data buyer may change in your account?

Are these standard SRM allows?

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muthu

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Muthu,

Yes you can change the target value, validity period, item inactive status etc. The changes will be updated to the backend contracts created in R3/ECC.

Regards

Saravanan.

[former_member183819 · Accepted solution]

hi

Are they good practice?

is in your project / business allow for this? share your experience.

do you know impact of all this ?

br

muthu

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

It depends on how the client/company wants to use this option. If we assume that there are no other measures to assure the validity of the contract terms then it is not a good practice.

The option to change is there because it is possible some buyers negotiate or renegotiate contract terms offline and not through an RFQ. We cannot assume that the contract terms, once negotiated, will be constant and that negotiations always happen through SRM - need not be an RFQ (not in all companies).

Ofcourse this puts the responsibility on the buyer to make sure everything is correct and as agreed with the vendor. It provides the flexibility. In the end, the buyer is responsible for maintaining the contract anyway.

[former_member183819 · Accepted solution]

Thanks

Are your client/ customer doing the same. ?

In your SAP SRM practice , I am asking your persoanl experience with the customers on maintenance of GOA.

What are the best practices you followed for your customer.

Any piece of advice is appreciated.

SRM should not encourage for all buyer requirements.

it is a contract .

br

muthu

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, my current or earlier clients had not used GOAs. So, I wouldnt be able to help with that info.

I can think of it as a flexibility but to be used responsibly. If a buyer managing a contract would make changes to it without prior negotiation then it is not a good practice. In the end, the onus is on the buyer to make sure the changes made have been agreed with the vendor. If there is no process in place to verify this then it should not be allowed. Anyway, it is always better to negotiate online because then everything is captured in the system.