An Agreement is a versioned template created by a provider to sign contracts with other accounts (vendors or providers).
Go through the following short tutorial to understand concepts of using agreements and contracts:
The Agreements and Contracts modules are interconnected. Namely, every contract is based on a certain agreement. Providers create agreements as templates used to sign contracts with other accounts, either vendors or other providers:
In the above diagram, Provider A creates Agreement X to sign contracts with Vendors A, B, and C. On the other hand, the same Provider A creates Agreement Y to sign contracts with Providers B and C.
The Agreements module enables providers and vendors to manage and use the following types of business objects:
The Agreements module from the Provider Portal displays a list of various types of agreements created by Providers:
From this list, Providers receive the following general agreement information:
To narrow down a list of contracts, providers can use search and filter patterns as described in Data Grids.
On the Agreements module, a Vendor can find all signed program agreements and distribution agreements within every program agreement.
From this page, Vendors can run various operations as described in this document.
The following documents describe various agreement types in more detail.