My team is concerned with the following fix in V9 SP14 of SAP Sourcing:
2945814/2013
Property contracts.Enable_publish_to_supplier_check.External_Phase has been
introduced to control the behavior of phase change of contract document using “Publish to
supplier” Checkbox .
- When set to true, the contract document can be changed to external phase only when “Publish to supplier” Checkbox is checked on the Header tab of MA.
- When Set to false, the contract document can be changed to external phase irrespective of the status of the publish to supplier check box (checked or not checked) on the Header tab of MA
The issue being, if you do not check the "Publish to Supplier" checkbox and move to an external phase, the supplier receives email notification but does not have access to the contract in the system. We were hoping to get a better understanding of the purpose of this "fix" as it seems to us that it would just cause confusion to the supplier. I'm hoping someone can provide some additional information on the purpose of putting this fix in place.