Contracts can now be submitted, approved in My Approvals, renewed and terminated, and their clauses become the terms on a purchase order.
Contract Signing and Clause Screens
Contracts can be signed (with a new contract PDF), a certificate signs only for its owner, and unapproved purchase orders are refused by name. Clause versions, variables and applicability rules have their own screens, and vendor, company and document pickers replace typed ids.
Contract Management Licensed Separately
Contract Management is now its own licensed module (permissions prefixed ctm.) instead of being licensed only with Compliance Management. Existing role grants carry over.
Contract Lifecycle
A contract is submitted once it has its clauses and every required value, approved by someone other than the submitter, and can then be renewed or terminated. It can be returned to draft with a reason; only a draft is edited, and overlapping active contracts are refused.
Contract Approval in My Approvals
Submitting a contract starts the Contract Approval workflow (role “Contract Approver”). Contracts are approved, rejected or returned only in My Approvals, which now shows the contract on its Document tab and explains a refused approval.
PO Terms from the Clause Library
A new “Terms from Clause Library” button on a draft purchase order assembles its Terms & Conditions from the vendor contract in force on the order date, asking for any value the contract does not state. The printed PO now shows the clauses.