Federal agencies enter into contractual agreements with their trading partners, and as part of the contractual agreement will have commitments to fulfill. The commitments on the documents, besides products and services bought or sold, are classified as deliverables, under the Terms and Conditions of the business document. In addition to the contractual commitments that federal agencies need to fulfill, they might define other internal tasks that contribute to the overall execution of the business document.
You can define deliverables as part of the contract template creation process. If a business document refers to a contract template, all deliverables associated to that contract template are copied to the business document.
Note: You can only define deliverables for contract templates with the Buy intent.
When a contract template is applied to a business document, you can update the deliverables that have become part of the business document, and you can create new deliverables specifically for the business document.
If you want to see information about deliverables in the preview output of a business document, you must create one or more special "deliverables" clauses. For more information, see Deliverable Variables in Clauses.
You can perform the following operations on deliverables in contract templates and business documents:
Creating and Updating Deliverables
Viewing Deliverable Details
Reordering Deliverables
Deleting Deliverables
If you are a Contract Administrator, then you can access the Deliverables tab if:
You are a contact administrator for at least one of the contract documents.
You have access to the Contract Terms page.
You have access to the Manage Deliverables page.
You can access to the Deliverables Workbench page.
You are a buyer.
The search results will display all the deliverables for the contract document for which you are the Contract Administrator. If you are the Contract Administrator for multiple contract documents, then the Manage Deliverables page displays all the deliverables defined for all those contract documents. You can view the history of the deliverables as well as report progress on the deliverables.
As a Contract Administrator, you can perform the following operations:
Monitor status of the deliverables
Record updates to deliverable status
Attach documents to the deliverable
Perform necessary actions on deliverable status change
View status of the deliverables
View history of changes that has happened to the deliverables
View documents attached to the deliverable
For deliverables in business documents, you can check which deliverables are overdue, and if any responsible party failed to perform one or more deliverables. In addition, you can update the status of the deliverables in the business documents.
For more information, please refer to the Oracle Procurement Contracts Implementation and Administration Guide.