As soon as the negotiate and review phase is completed, the contract manager will submit the contract for approval by the business stakeholder and then the procurement executive. The contract manager can then proceed to finalize the contract and send it to the supplier and procurement executive for signing. Once signed, the final signed contract must be distributed to all parties.
Signature tasks enable you to collect electronic signatures from internal and external signers for a document in an SAP Ariba Contracts workspace. Once the signature task is set for contract document(s) it can be submitted to the signers. If you are using DocuSign, you are transferred to the DocuSign website; if you are using Adobe Sign, a new browser window opens to the Adobe Sign website. At the DocuSign or Adobe Sign website, you can specify where signers will place their signatures or initials. On the DocuSign website, you can also specify additional signers and an order in which signers receive and sign the document.
Signers receive notifications asking them to navigate to the DocuSign or Adobe Sign site to sign the document. Signers sign or decline the documents. If all signers have signed the document, the SAP Ariba interface shows the document status as Signed. You can edit, withdraw or start a new round of the signature task if required.
