Contract defaulted in the Shopping Cart

[former_member560682]

Hello,

We are using Extended Classic scenario. We create a contract with a product category code on the item and itu2019s the only contract in SRM with that product category code.What happens is when the requester creates a shopping cart and selects that product category code then the shopping cart will automatically default to that contract number and I know that is the standard SRM behaviour.

But in some cases we do not want the shopping cart to default on the contract. The shopping cart may need to go to another supplier who we do not have a contract.We want the requester to have to go to source of supply and select the contract.

We want to avoid having shopping carts automatically default to a contract.

Is there any way to do this? Any OSS note or anything which will serve this functionality?

Regards,

Khushbu.

[former_member183819 · Accepted solution]

You are correct. bust System assigns a contract automatically since there is only one valid source of supply. Keep more option .ie more than one

I recommand you to create one dummy product category CONTRACT so that default will not be assigned so REQUESTER has to select valid contract.

1. SWITCHES - PRODUCT CATEGORY - ORIGINAL contract

2.SWITCHES - PRODUCT CATEGORY - dummy contract with 1.0 usd validity 9999 years

it might helps you.

[former_member560682]

Thanks Muthu for helping me in this. I will try to creat a dummy contract with the same product category and see that will it solve the problem or not.

Regards,

Khushbu.

Edited by: Khushbu Brahmbhatt on Nov 17, 2010 5:36 PM

[former_member183819]

But you should distribut the dummy contract to back end system if you are in classic mode.

so it helps you to avoid auto assignment.

[former_member560682]

Muthu we are using Extended classic Scenario.

Thanks,

Khushbu.

[former_member183819]

ok. no problem but trick is the same .

if more than one source of supply available - Requester has option to assign

[former_member560682]

Hi Muthu,

Should i create this contract with the same vendor or with the different vendor?

Thanks,

Khushbu

[former_member560682]

Thanks Muthu for the help. I created the dummy contract and it solved the problem.

Regards,

Khushbu.

[mike_yuen3]

While on this topic, our srm no longer finds any contracts when we create a shopping cart or PO to automatically assign since we updated the last service pack and enhancement pack 4. However, we can manually find the contracts though this is not the goal. What broke?

[former_member183819]

Hi Mike

Please share your thoughts in detail. I could not understand.

Muthu

[mike_yuen3]

we had the same situation as Khushbu where our shopping cart is automatically sourced based on our contracts that were in place. however, this is no longer happening (and we now need to manually go to the contract field and search to find the contract) since we upgraded with the latest service pack. we are using srm server 5.5 and ecc 6 with ehp4.

[former_member183819]

Hi Mike

Happy new Year 2011 to every one !!

Assume that you have unique source of supply but contract was not assigned to that shopping cart item,

You might view the source of supply but as per our expectation it may not automatically assigned to the shopping cart.

It is mainly due to LINKAGES are not updated successfully in BBP_PD.

for example you create a contract in SRM and distribute to ECC and the same contract also reached ECC but now linkages are not established in BBP_PD at header as well as item level that backend contract at CONTRACT business object.

If the linkages are not happen the BBP_PD contract not automatically assign the contract .

this linkage establishment is very important in SRM . it causes another side effects too in our system.

Can you kindly check your contracts are having linkages in the BBP_PD.

Muthu

[Former Member]

Hi Khusbu

System will adopt the Contract as Source of Supply in this case. But there is an option to remove the source of supply by the SC Creator manually and once the requestor does that, system offers a provision to select suppliers manually.....

Which version of sRM you are on?

Regards

Virender Singh