Source of supply best advantages disadvantages

Hi All
it could be very simple for you.
2 X customers uses Inforecord extensively for external procurement
and 2 X customers uses Contract extensively for external procurement
what are the advantages and disadvantages between two.
why someone never thougt of contact for procurement why another customer never thought of inforecord for external procurement.
all 4 x customers are using procurement extensively according to their wish
are any specific things stops them?
both are having planing systems in place.
as all aware that every business objects in SRM is to meet the customer requirement
br
muthu

Info record is a means for capturing price information , volume based pricing etc ..There is no constant price guarnteed ..
In case of contract , supplier is bound to provide required material / services for a defined period of time or as agreed..legally ...
Business Law "All contracts are agreements but all agreements are not contracts"

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Yes. you are correct
An interlinkage is a relationship in SAP SRM between a vendor and a product
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Can anybody tell me how the sourcing / source of supply assignment works in standard classic scenario?
This is the situation;
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Price and vendor (and maybe even info record nr) are known in the internal catalog.
Internal catalog is totally different. Sc can be created via catalog also.
nowadayas you can transfer info record to MADM and you can utilise be specific what is your internal catalog.
Q1:-Is the standard process (not sure if standard is the right word ) that you would transfer the price and vendor to the shopping cart? (price is needed for approval)
A1:- so this purchase inforecord price or contract price will not be considereed for sc approval process via internal goods and services.
Q2:- Or can you also source already in the SHC? And get the price directly from ECC info record?
A2:- while creating PO sc takes that proce from info record and creates a PO with info record/ contract price .while ordering cart , sc just takes material price.
Or is this sourcing done in the PO and not yet in the SHC?
PO will be created by the purchaser after assigning the vendor ,
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you can not change inforecord price in srm via sc.
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