Contract Management

This section contains enhancements in Infor Financials and Supply Management.

Allow service contract quantity lines to be defined with no max quantity

Program/Business class/Process affected:

  • Service Contract processing

Use these steps to test the enhancement:

  1. Create a Contract Type of Vendor Purchase Type “Service.” Select the Allow Quantity Services On Service Contracts field.
  2. Create a service contract type with header commitments.
  3. Create a quantity type contract line. Do not specify a maximum quantity. Verify that you can create the line without a receiving a maximum quantity error message.
  4. Release and activate the contract.
  5. Create an invoice against the service contract.
  6. On Match Company, in Messaging, do not select Invoice Entry Cost Messaging.
  7. Create an invoice detail line. Specify a quantity that exceeds the contract maximum amount.
  8. Verify that you receive an error message regarding the line exceeding the maximum amount.

JT-1686429

Clean up display of pending obligations on Contracts

When you create a commitment with records that update obligations on a budget template, a pending obligation detail link is displayed in two places on the contract.

Program/Business class/Process affected:

  • Contract processing

Use these steps to test the enhancement:

  1. Create a contract with header commitments.
  2. Verify that a Pending Obligation Details link is displayed on the Contract and Commitments tabs.
  3. Verify that the link displays Budget Template Amounts for Editing details correctly.

JT-1720169

Supplier Portal Security integration with IFS - Commercial

Add an integration to the IFS External Entity Management service to manage external users for authentication, authorization, and password management functionality for the Supplier portal.

Program/Business class/Process affected:

  • The Supplier portal registration and sign in processes.
  • SupplyManagementSupplier webapp
  • XiSupplyManagementSupplierPage page
  • SupplierGroup
  • Supplier
  • SupplierSourceId

For details on exactly what was changed in these files, please see the Infor CloudSuite Financials & Supply Management Security Delta document for this update.

SupplierAnonymousViewAndRegister_ST

SupplierContactMaintain_ST

SupplierPrimaryContactMaintain_ST

All new components needed in IFS and Landmark security will be created during the provisioning process and the feature will be enabled by default.

Use this information to test the enhancement:

  1. When you create supplier contact, verify that these fields are not displayed:
    • User name
    • Password
    • Confirm Password

    For Supplier Portal setup information, see the Infor Supply Management Setup and Administration Guide.

  2. Contacts will now sign in to Supplier Portal using their email address. Contacts will receive an email to complete their registration process. Their email must match the email that is on file. Password and Confirm Password: Verify that the newly created contact receives an email with a link to complete their registration.
  3. Suppliers who self-register will now sign in to Supplier Porter using their email address. When primary contacts create additional contacts, these fields are no longer used and should not be displayed:
    • User Name
    • Password
    • Confirm Password
  4. Password and Confirm Password: Verify that the newly created contact receives an email with a link to complete their registration.
  5. Verify that supplier contact can perform these actions:
    • Complete the registration process, whether they are self-registering or have been created by an Administrator or a Primary Contact
    • Sign out and sign back in to the portal
    • Change email

Dependencies: Must be a Multi-Tenant net, new customer.

JT-1548521

Throw an error to prevent saving a duplicate item in a contract copy

This change will display hard errors on copied contracts for manually entered item creation.

Program/Business class/Process affected:

  • Contract maintenance

Use these steps to test the enhancement:

  1. Create a contract using the Create Contract From Contract action.
  2. In the new contract, add a line that has the same item, vendor item, and manufacturer information as an existing line.
  3. Verify that an error message is immediately displayed that the line already exists.

JT-1683003