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Table of content
1 What's New in SAP Supplier Relationship Management
1.1 What's New in SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SRM 7.0
1.1.1 Support Package Stack 01
1.1.1.1 Features
1.2 What's New in SAP Enhancement Package 3 for SRM 7.0
1.2.1 Support Package Stack 05
1.2.1.1 SRM, Continuous Innovations 3
1.2.1.1.1 Inconsistent Business Partner Handling
1.2.1.2 Assign Supplier Button
1.2.1.3 Assign Supplier or Currency to selected items in Shopping Cart
1.2.1.4 Text Format for Long Text Boxes
1.2.1.5 Check for Open Purchase Orders before Contract Completion
1.2.1.6 Additional Status for RFx
1.2.2 Support Package Stack 07
1.2.2.1 SRM, Large Document Handling
1.2.2.1.1 Large Document Handling for Contracts
1.2.2.1.2 Large Document Handling for RFx
1.2.2.2 Mass Changes to Contracts
1.2.2.3 Mass Copy of Contracts
1.2.2.4 Defer Sourcing
1.2.2.5 Rejection Reason in Sourcing Application
1.2.2.6 Follow-On Documents in Shopping Cart
1.2.2.7 Contract Release Value Update
1.2.3 Support Package Stack 08
1.2.3.1 Large Document Handling for Purchase Orders
1.2.3.2 Tray-Like User Interface for Central Contracts
1.2.3.3 Additional Fields in POWL Inbox
1.2.3.4 Disable Offline Approval of E-mail Notifications
1.2.3.5 Enhance Follow-On Documents in Sourcing
1.2.4 Support Package Stack 09
1.2.4.1 Text Templates for Notes
1.2.4.2 Multiple Currencies for Conditions in Central Contract
1.2.4.3 Down Payments
1.2.4.4 Payment Plans
1.2.4.5 Process Automation for Follow-on Documents
1.2.4.6 Tray-Like User Interface
1.2.5 Support Package Stack 10
1.2.5.1 Contract Negotiation Cockpit
1.2.5.2 Large Document Handling for RFx Response
1.2.5.3 Approve Purchase Requisitions in SAP SRM
1.2.5.4 Formula Based Conditions for PO and Contract
1.2.5.5 Subcontracting
1.2.5.6 Notify Changes to Contract
1.2.6 Support Package Stack 11
1.2.6.1 Long Material Number for S/4 HANA
1.2.6.2 Undo Accept or Undo Reject a Bid
1.2.6.3 Generic Text Templates
1.2.6.4 Adoption of a Formula
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1 What's New in SAP Supplier Relationship Management
1.1.1.1 Features
All the features available until SP11 of SAP Enhancement Package 3 for SAP SRM 7.0 are applicable in the SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP SRM 7.0.
With this release, SRM UI Add-On 1.0 and SAP Fiori for SAP SRM 1.0 and are available as part of standard delivery of SAP SRM.
Note
The SP01 of SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP SRM 7.0 is the initial delivery of the product.
More Information
For more information, refer to SAP Note 2171391 .
With this business function you can enhance certain features of shopping cart in SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) functions, and
implement new functions. The features available with this business function are as follows:
Inconsistent Business Partner Handling
Additional Fields in POWL Inbox
Disable Offline Approval of E-mail Notifications
Tray-like User Interface for Central Contracts
More Information
For more information about the business function, see SRM, Continuous Innovations 3.
Technical Details
For more information about the features provided with this business function, see the following release notes:
Inconsistent Business Partner Handling
Additional Fields in POWL Inbox
Disable Offline Approval of E-mail Notifications
Tray-Like User Interface for Central Contracts
Effects on Customizing
To use SRM, Continuous Innovations 3, you must first activate the business function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM
Server --> Business Function
With this feature you can as an SAP SRM administrator edit or display any document in Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) that is assigned to a
business partner who is terminated or whose role has become inconsistent in the SAP SRM organizational structure. For example, it is possible for you to
confirm the delivery of goods if the shopping cart was ordered by a business partner whose role is now inconsistent in the SAP SRM organizational structure.
You can transfer the ownership of an SRM document from one business partner to another business partner. This is applicable for all the business partner
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roles such as requester, goods recipient, invoice recipient, and employee responsible (in case of contracts).
You can also track the changes once the business partner role is transferred from one employee to another employee. The changes that you can track are as
follows:
Changed by
Changed On
Old Business Partner
New Business Partner
Document Updated
Business Object Type
Document Number
Note that if any open workflow item in the document is displayed, you cannot transfer the document ownership until the workflow item is closed.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Serve Continuous
Improvement Activate/Deactivate Inconsistent Business Partner Handling
This feature enables a shopping cart user to assign the supplier after entering the value in the Supplier field for any shopping cart item on the Source of
Supply tab page.
Thus, it reduces the additional effort of choosing the Assign Supplier button after entering the value in the Supplier field.
Note that the Assign Supplier button is not displayed once the switch is activated.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Continuous
Improvement Activate/Deactivate Assign Supplier Button
This feature enables an operational purchaser to select multiple items in a shopping cart and assign a mutual supplier and currency or both for all the selected
items at once. Thus, it reduces the effort of assigning a supplier or currency for each item individually.
Note that this feature is available for shopping carts with any status in edit mode.
Technical Details
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Product Feature Is New
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Continuous
Improvement Ass. Supp. or Cur. to Selected items in SC
This feature enables you to format the texts you enter in the long text boxes.
With the formatting options, you can emphasize key points and enhance readability as follows:
Add three types of header style
Use alphabetical and non-alphabetical lists
Indent texts to the right or the left of the page
Bold or italicize the text
The enhanced screens with long text boxes for the business objects are as follows:
Header approval Note under Header, Item , and Approval tab page
All the notes under Notes and Attachment tab page
Internal Note text box in purchase order (PO) and Header Approval Note text box in Shopping Cart (SC) are enhanced. Note to Supplier text box in PO and
SC is also enhanced.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application
Basic Settings Activate/Deactivate Text Format for Long Text Boxes
Note
If you have configured SAP Supplier Self-Services in a separate system, you need to define the customizing settings for this function again in that
system.
This feature enables you to prevent the completion of a central contract if there is any open purchase order (PO) (both classic and extended classic case)
against the central contract.
Previously, the completion of contracts was possible without checking for open purchase orders that were assigned to the contract.
If a contract is in complete status, it is not possible to close the POs that are associated with it.
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Country Dependency Valid for all countries
Additional Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application
Basic Settings- Service Procurement Activate/Deactivate Check for Open Purchase Orders before Contract Compl.
This feature allows the system to set a new status, Ended, for RFxs. The new status, Ended indicates that the bidding period of an RFx is ended.
Previously, when you published an RFx, it was not possible to know if the bidding period has ended, even if the submission deadline was in the past. In the
purchaser's view, the RFx was in Published status, even after the bidding period ended.
Thus, the new status, Ended improves the transparency in the bidding process.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server RFx
Activate/Deactivate Additional Status after Publishing RFx
Note
If you have configured SAP Supplier Self-Services in a separate system, you need to define the customizing settings for this function again in that
system.
With this business function you can use the large document handling framework of SAP Supplier Relationship Management. The new features available with
this business function are as follows:
Large Document Handling for Central Contracts
Large Document Handling for RFx
Large Document Handling for Purchase Orders
More Information
For more information about the business function, see SRM, Large Document Handling.
Technical Details
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Available as of New
SAP Enhancement Package 3 (SP07) for SAP SRM 7.0
For more information about the features provided with this business function, see Large Document Handling for Contracts, Large Document Handling for RFx
and Large Document Handling for Purchase Orders.
Effects on Customizing
To use SRM, Large Document Handling, you must first activate the business function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM
Server --> Business Function
This feature enables a purchaser to work on a definite set of line items of a contract with numerous line items.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application
Basic Settings Large Document Handling Activate/Deactivate Large Document Handling for Contracts.
This feature enables a purchaser to work on a definite set of line items of an RFx with numerous line items.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application
Basic Settings Large Document Handling Activate/Deactivate Large Document Handling for RFx.
This feature enables the purchaser to select multiple contracts, enter data that is common across the contracts, and set the contracts to Saved status.
Later, depending on the requirement, the purchaser can update the individual contract with specific data before publishing.
Technical Details
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Technical Name of Product Feature SRM_CONT_IMPR_3_PF3
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Continuous
Improvement Activate/Deactivate Mass Changes to Contracts.
The purchaser can copy multiple contracts from personal object worklist (POWL) at once. A background job runs for the creation of copied contracts. When
the selected contracts are copied, the purchaser gets an e-mail notification regarding the successful creation of copied contracts
. In the action log, you can find the following information:
Errors encountered while copying contracts
Warning message to maintain e-mail id for the business partner if it is missing
Message for successfully created contracts
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Continuous
Improvement Activate/Deactivate Mass Copy of Contracts.
This feature enables you to hide the requisitions or shopping cart items in the sourcing application for a specified time frame until you intend to carry out a
sourcing process for them. The selected items are available again in the search screen for sourcing after the time interval expires.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Sourcing
Activate/Deactivate Defer Sourcing.
This feature enables the purchaser to enter the reason for rejecting an item or items of a shopping cart or a purchase requisition in the sourcing cockpit.
Note
The ID and the name of the purchaser, who rejects the item or items, as well as the time when the purchaser rejects the item or items, get captured in the
note for rejection reason by default
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Sourcing
Activate/Deactivate SOCO Rejection Reason..
This feature enables you to activate the function that restricts the follow-on documents applicable for items in a shopping cart that are relevant for sourcing.
This feature allows a purchaser with specific authorization to assign the follow-on documents applicable for items in a shopping cart. These follow-on
documents appear against the items in the Carry Out Sourcing screen as applicable. The operational purchaser can then view, select, and assign only those
follow-on documents as applicable for an item in the shopping cart. This enables faster purchasing of items relevant for sourcing.
Note
This feature is applicable only to purchase order, contract, auction, and RFx follow-on document types. This feature is not applicable for items added from
catalog and for existing shopping cart items.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Continuous
Improvement Activate/Deactivate Follow-On Documents in Shopping Cart.
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross Application
Basic Settings Define Settings for Creation of Follow-On Documents in Shopping Cart.
This feature enables you to activate the function that updates the release value of a hierarchical service item under a central contract hierarchy.
When you assign a supplier for a hierarchical service item under a contract hierarchy, the system allows you to select a subline item as a reference. The
system also updates the release value for the selected hierarchical service item and updates the aggregated release value for the entire central contract
hierarchy.
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Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Sourcing
Activate/Deactivate Release Value for a Hierarchical Service Item.
This feature enables a purchaser to work on a definite set of line items of a purchase order with numerous line items.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application
Basic Settings Large Document Handling Activate/Deactivate Large Document Handling for Purchase Orders.
This feature allows you to displays a new user interface for central contract screen in creation, display, edit, or approval mode. The user interface displays all
the building blocks such as Overview , Header, Item , or Attachment of central contract as an expandable and collapsible tray. The user can also arrange
the building blocks below each other and next to each other either by changing the personalized setting or by dragging and dropping. The user can also hide
standard fields from any building block without modifications.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application
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Basic Settings User Experience Activate/Deactivate Tray-Like User Interface for Central Contracts.
Note
If you have configured SAP Supplier Self-Services in a separate system, you need to define the customizing settings for this function again in that
system.
This feature allows you to add a field column to the Personal Object Worklist (POWL) inbox.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Continuous
Improvement Activate/Deactivate Additional Fields in POWL Inbox.
This feature allows you to disable offline e-mail notifications for approval of business objects.
Note
Note that once you activate the switch, a new section, Disable E-mail Notifications , appears on the screen along with a list of business objects. The
approver can select the business objects for which the e-mail notifications are required to be disabled.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application
Basic Settings Business Workflow Activate/Deactivate Disable Offline Approval of E-mail Notifications
This feature enables you to activate the function that allows you to enhance the existing follow-on documents such as a purchase order, contract, or RFx from
shopping carts that are relevant for sourcing. Using this feature, you can append new shopping cart items to an existing follow-on document from the Select
Shopping Carts screen.
If the follow-on documents contain errors, the system sets them to the status Saved else, it retains the existing status. Once you create a follow-on
document for a requirement, the requirement no longer appears in sourcing.
This feature is applicable for the following:
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Follow-on documents and shopping cart items that have the same purchasing group, purchasing organization, and supplier
Shopping cart items created using the Extended Classic Scenario
Follow-on documents with statuses of the type Saved , Awaiting Approval , Released , Ordered , or Published
This feature does not support:
Non-hierarchical service items for Contract & RFx
Addition of external requirements to existing follow-on documents
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Sourcing
Activate/Deactivate Enhancement of Existing Follow-On Documents .
You can define the criteria for checking the follow-on documents such as PO, Contract, or RFx before they are enhanced by using the BAdI in Customizing for
SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Business Add-Ins Check Follow-on Documents being Enhanced .
This function allows you to create, save, and use text templates for notes in the following business objects:
Shopping Cart
Purchase Order
RFx
RFx Response
Central Contract
Note
Note that if you create a template for one note type, you cannot use it for another note type. For example, a template for an internal note cannot be reused
for a supplier note.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-
Application Basic Settings Text Templates Activate/Deactivate Text Templates for Notes.
You define the business objects in the Customizing under SRM Server Cross-Application Basic Settings Text Templates Define Business
Objects for Text Templates.
This function allows you to enter conditions at header level, item level, and under the Condition tab with a currency other than the one maintained in the
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central contract. For example, if an item’s price is maintained in EUR in the central contract, you can maintain any condition such as discount absolute for the
same item in USD.
Note
Note that the Currency field is enabled for conditions types other than percentage type.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Continuous
Improvement Activate/Deactivate Multiple Currencies for Conditions in Central Contract.
This feature enables the use of down payments in SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) purchase orders in the Extended classic scenario.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
In SAP SRM, you have activated the business function SRM, Continuous Innovations 2 (SRM_CONT_IMPR_2)
In Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management, you have also done the following:
Activated Down payments under SRM Server Continuous Improvement Payments Down Payments Activate/Deactivate Down
Payments.
Defined down payment types under SRM Server Continuous Improvement Payments Down Payments Define Down Payment
Types.
Activated down payments for transaction types under SRM Server Continuous Improvement Payments Down Payments Define
Transaction Types for Down Payments .
Activated Extended PO history under SRM Server Continuous Improvement Payments Activate/Deactivate Extended PO History.
In Customizing for SAP ERP, you have activated the business function MM, Integration of Materials Management and Financial Accounting
(LOG_MMFI_P2P) under Activate Business Functions .
You can also compile, change, and check down payment information by implementing the Business Add-In (BAdI) in Customizing for Supplier Relationship
Management under SRM Server Cross-Industry Functions Customer Enhancements (BAdIs) Payments Check Down Payments .
This feature enables you to define payment plans (also known as invoicing plans) at functional line item level in SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP
SRM) purchase orders in the Extended classic scenario. Payment plans support complex procurement processes which extend over long periods of time and
involve payment milestones instead of the traditional process, which involves goods receipts and invoice receipts and is based on supplier shipments. Using
payment plans, you can better steer and track payments from purchase orders.
Technical Details
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Technical Name of Product Feature CIF_702_DOWN_PAYMENTS_PF1
Effects on Customizing
To use payment plans in SRM purchase orders, you must perform the Customizing activities in SAP ERP for Materials Management under Purchasing
Purchase Order Invoicing Plan . Make sure that the following are customized:
Type of payment plan
List of possible date descriptions for a planned payment
Assignment of date descriptions to invoice types
List of possible reasons for blocking a planned payment
This feature enables you to automatically create follow-on document for each item of a shopping cart based on the value selected in the Follow-on Document
field. To select the follow-on document indicator, do the following:
1. Select the relevant line item.
2. Choose Details Item Data Follow-on Processing Follow-on Document.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
1. You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Sourcing
Activate/Deactivate Process Automation for Follow-on Documents..
2. In the report, BBP_SC_TRANSFER_GROUPED, Aut.Creation of Follow-on Document , is the indicator to identify items that are grouped for automation
based on the product categories and the source systems.
You can use this feature to display a new user interface for central contract screen and purchase order screen in creation, display, edit, or approval mode. The
user interface displays all the building blocks such as Overview, Header, Item, or Attachment of a central contract and purchase order as an expandable
and collapsible tray. You can thus avoid vertical scrolling to view the various sections in a central contract and purchase order.
Technical Details
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Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application
Basic Settings User Experience Activate/Deactivate Tray-Like User Interface.
This function allows you to negotiate items from multiple contracts. You can select items from multiple contracts and create the follow-on bidding documents
for items based on split criteria. For example, you can split items from multiple contracts based on suppliers, purchase organizations, and create the bidding
documents accordingly.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application
Basic Settings Contract Negotiation Cockpit. Activate/Deactivate Contract Negotiation Cockpit .
This feature enables a purchaser to work on a definite set of line items of an RFx Response with numerous line items.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application
Basic Settings Large Document Handling Activate/Deactivate Large Document Handling for RFx Response
Use
This feature allows you to use SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) workflow for approval of external requirements. It is applicable for a purchase
requisition which is created in the SAP ERP system and transferred to the SAP SRM system for sourcing using the BBP_EXTREQ_TRANSFER report.
Technical Details
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Technical Name of Product Feature SRM_CONT_IMPR_3_PF19
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Sourcing
Activate/Deactivate External Approval of ERP Purchase Requisition .
This feature allows you to create a formula and associate it with a condition type. You can click on the Formula hyper link and determine the change of price
for a purchase order or contract based on the condition type and formula associated with it.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application
Basic Settings Pricing Activate/Deactivate Formula Based Condition for PO and Contract.
You define the formula in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application Basic Settings Pricing
Maintain Formula for Purchase Order and Contract .
1.2.5.5 Subcontracting
This feature allows you to enable subcontracting in SAP SRM. Using this feature you can create a bill of material (BOM) within a central contract at item level
from SAP SRM. The display of subcontracting items is available as a part of Features of SRM, Cross-Industry Functions under Procurement for Public Sector
(PPS).
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application
Basic Settings Subcontracting Activate/Deactivate Subcontracting .
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application
Basic Settings Subcontracting Activate/Deactivate Creation of BOM from Contract .
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1.2.5.6 Notify Changes to Contract
This feature allows you to trigger notifications when changes are made to a contract. The purchaser can choose to notify self and the supplier.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Continuous
Improvements Activate/Deactivate Notify Changes to Contract.
In the S/4 HANA systems, the material ID field (MARA-MATNR) can support 40 characters. The standard ERP material number (MATNR) has changed from
40 to 18 characters. In this feature, the plug-in interface from the SAP SRM to S/4 HANA system is extended to support material ID with 40 characters.
Technical Details
This feature provides the option to revert the acceptance or rejection of a bid or an RFx response in the strategic sourcing with bid decoupling scenario. This
is applicable for RFx response submission outside the firewall, that is in the supplier system.
Technical Details
This feature provides a central location to create or edit the text templates and use them across the following business objects:
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Shopping Cart
Purchase Order
RFx
RFx Response
Central Contract
Note
If you create a template for one note type, you cannot use it for another note type. For example, a template for an internal note cannot be reused for a
supplier note.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-
Application Basic Settings Text Templates Activate/Deactivate Text Templates for Notes .
You define the business objects in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application Basic Settings
Text Templates Define Business Objects for Text Templates .
This feature is an enhancement to the feature Formula Based Conditions for PO and Contract .
This feature allows you to update the factors, value of the factors and the formula associated with a purchase order or a contract. The options that you
maintain appear under the Adopt Formula button under a purchase order or a contract.
Technical Details
Effects on Customizing
You define the Customizing settings for this function in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-
Application Basic Settings Pricing Activate/Deactivate Formula Based Condition for PO and Contract .
You define the formula in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-Application Basic Settings Pricing
Maintain Formula for Purchase Order and Contract .
You define the default values for factors used in a formula in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-
Application Basic Settings Pricing Define Default Values for a Formula .
You define the actions to enable adoption of a formula in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server Cross-
Application Basic Settings Pricing Define Actions for Adoptions of a Formula .
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