Closing Contract Workspaces

Termination amendments are used to close a contract before its scheduled expiration date. They allow you to modify the expiration date and reminder settings. Use this amendment type when a contract needs to be closed early due to an adverse condition or disagreement. This amendment type cannot be applied to closed or expired workspaces.

If you create a Termination amendment, the contract status changes to Draft Amendment.

When the amendment is complete, you must Publish it again.

If the workspace has tasks that are repeated for each new draft of the workspace, new tasks are created to handle the amendment process.

It is important to note, the system does not send contract expiration or notice email notifications (notifications scheduled according to the contract notice period) when the contract status is Draft Amendment.

Practice creating a termination amendment by completing the Creating a Termination Amendment exercise below.

There might be specific business situations when the contract has to be closed instead of terminated. In SAP Ariba Contracts, you can choose to manually close a contract workspace if necessary. However, if you want to work on a contract after you've closed it, you have the option to amend the contract.

To manually close a contract workspace, the contract must be in one of the following statuses:

• Draft
• Published
• Expired

By default, you can delete the project if the following conditions are true:

• You are a project owner or a user with project owner capabilities for a project.
• None of the tasks have been started.
• Workspace has not been published or amended.

You might want to delete a project if an error is made, if the wrong template is selected, or if it's a test project that needs to be removed.