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Contract authorization concept

vidhya_m
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Dear Experts,

I have a question regarding the working of contract authorizations in SRM 7.0.

When we create a central contract, we can assign specific authorizations, to specific parts of a contract to a particular user outside the startegic purchasing.

If I assign display authorizations to a user A who is not having the startegic purchasing role, how will this user be able to view the contract?

The user A does not have the starategic purchaser role and hence does not have the iview access on the portal. Where will this user be able to access the contract?

also, do we need to assign any specific authorization objects in SRM for this user to view the contract?

the only documentation that i found for this topic was http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm70/helpdata/EN/45/dce925088a6976e10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm and this did not answer my questions.

Could anyone help me here?

Thanks & Best Regards,

Vidhya

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vidhya_m
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Thanks a lot for that information. It was very useful.

However, I still did not understand how the perosn who is given authorizations would see this contract as there is no view on the portal for this user.

Do we need to create a customized portal role and customized portal views for this?

Is there any documentation available regarding this?

Best Regards,

Vidhya

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We too are looking at this functionality and struggling to understand the concept!

What we think needs to happen is that all users should have contract display access in their role and this would be linked to a very basic view of the contract, a little bit like the Overview tab. You may have enhance the Overview tab so that no sensitive or confidential information is on view. Then if you want a user to be able to see a confidential contract then you can use the enhanced authorisation to grant them access, so we describe this as 'uplifting' their basic contract access allowing them to see more details.

Please note we have not yet developed this solution and we are currently in the process of assessing whether or not it will work. Also note we are running SRM-PPS with enhancement pack 1.

former_member183819
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Note 1374484 - Enhanced Authorizations in Contracts - SOME HELPFUL INFORMATIONS in the .zip file

Reason and Prerequisites

Users outside the strategic purchasing department (like the Employee users) can be authorized to have full / limited access to a Central Contract.

To use the enhanced authorization concept first the Authorization object BBP_CTR_2 should be configured and then the user should be added in the Authorization tab of the Contract document.

Solution

Enhanced Authorizations is available in SRM 5.0 onwards.