About groups

For Strategic Sourcing, the important groups that you need to consider are:

  • Enterprise groups

  • Procurement groups

  • Sourcing groups

  • Contract groups

In Strategic Sourcing, enterprise groups are associated with three other types of groups, namely procurement groups, sourcing groups, and contract groups. Procurement group and contract group extend enterprise group. Sourcing group extends procurement group. These different groups relate to each other in specific ways and need to be set up in a certain manner.

For Contract Management, the important groups that you need to consider are:

  • Enterprise groups

  • Procurement groups

  • Contract groups

In Contract Management, enterprise groups are associated with two other types of groups, namely procurement groups and contract groups. Procurement group and contract group extend enterprise group. These groups relate to each other in specific ways and need to be set up in a certain manner.

Note: 

Enterprise groups, procurement groups, and contract groups must all have the same group number.

The following describes each type of group.

Enterprise groups

An enterprise group is the highest level entity in a Lawson Landmark application. It is the common group across all Landmark applications that ties the different groups together.

For example, if you are using the Strategic Sourcing and Contract Management applications, the sourcing group and contract group are extensions of the enterprise group.

Procurement groups

Procurement groups help you consolidate purchasing activities for a flexible multi-company procurement structure. You set up procurement groups in the Purchase Order application using Procurement Group (PO00.1). Procurement groups are important because they are assigned to business classes within the application.

Note: 

A procurement group must already exist before you can create a contract group.

For more information on procurement groups, see the Purchase Order User Guide.

Sourcing groups

In Strategic Sourcing, sourcing groups are an extension of a Purchase Order (PO) procurement group and are used to expand the processing that can be done for the procurement group. A sourcing group in Strategic Sourcing and the related procurement group in Purchase Order must have the same group number. For example, if the sourcing group number is GRP123, the related procurement group number must also be GRP123.

Supplier groups

Supplier groups are the highest entity for suppliers. Supplier group is an extension of vendor group (set up in the Accounts Payable) - they represent a group of suppliers with whom you do business.

The supplier group that you create must have a corresponding vendor group ID in Vendor Group (AP00.1).

For more information on vendor groups, see the Accounts Payable User Guide.

Contract groups

Contract groups are the highest level entity within Contract Management. When a contract is created, you can assign a contract group to the contract. You must associate a supplier group with a contract group.

Before a contract group can be created, a procurement group must already exist.

Note: 

A contract group must exist in Landmark before you can add a retainage accrual code to an Accounts Payable company. For more information, see the Accounts Payable User Guide.

Setting up groups

The following diagram shows you the order in which these groups are set up.

Note: 

The groups shown below are set up and created by your Administrator.