If you plan to link contract workspaces by making them master and sub-agreements, keep the following restrictions in mind:

• A master agreement and its sub-agreements must be of the same contract workspace type (sales contract workspace or procurement contract workspace).

• When you create a sub-agreement from a master agreement or link a sub-agreement to a master agreement, the master agreement cannot be expired.

• If your Ariba Spend Management solution includes the Ariba Contract Compliance feature and you want to associate a sub-agreement with a procurement contract workspace, the master agreement must be published so that it is identical in both Contract Compliance and Ariba Contract Management before you associate the sub-agreement with it. This restriction does not apply to sales contract workspaces.

• You must specify the expiration date for a sub-agreement to be before or on the same day as the expiration date for the master agreement. *

• If either a sales or procurement contract workspace includes a Contract Terms document, you must specify a valid supplier or customer and publish the master agreement before you create a sub-agreement for it.

• If the sub-agreement has a contract terms document, the associated master agreement must also have a Contract Terms document.

Additional Information

This information can be found in the How to Create or Link Master and Sub agreements guide.