Environmental & Risk Management / Compliance Management / Contract Manager / Manage Contract Drill-down task

Enter Contracts

After entering regulations and internal initiatives, you can enter the contracts for the outsourced work that fulfills the regulation. You may want to model contracts that do not fulfill a particular regulation or initiative. In this case, create a placeholder regulation record without any other data and then select it from the tree or the validated list. For example, you can create a regulation named NO_REG and then not complete any of the fields for this record.

Procedure

From the Process Navigator, select the Contract Manager / Manage Contract Drill-Down task (the ab-comp-contract-drilldown.axvw view).
In the Select Contract Item pane on the left, select the regulation to which you want to add a contract.
Click Add New, and then select Contract from the menu. The view presents the Define Contracts form in the Contract tab.
Enter the following information, which will create a record in the "Compliance Programs and Contracts" table (the regprogram table).

Field	Description
Regulation	The system automatically completes this field with the value of the regulation you have selected in the tree. If you have not selected a value, you can choose a regulation from the validated list.
Compliance Level Code	Select the description for the degree of compliance this contract has achieved.
Contract Category / Contract Type	Validated by the Program Types and Program Categories tables. Select the category and type that describe this contract. These fields provide an additional way of locating and reporting on your compliance contracts.
Contract Code	Enter a value, that when combined with Regulation, will uniquely identify this contract.
Contract Status	The description of the contract's current state of activity. You change the status as the contract progresses. You can set this to Created, Pending, On Hold, Active, Completed, Completed-Verified, On Hold. If the program has a status of On Hold, you can enter the reason for the suspension in the Reason for Hold field.
Regulatory Contact	Your contact for this contract at the regulatory agency.
Responsible Person	Select the employee responsible for this contract. When the employee logs in to their tasks, they see only the contracts for which they are entered as the Responsible Person. When managing contracts, you can search by the Responsible Person to locate compliance contracts assigned to that employee. You can also generate reports to show contracts for a selected Responsible Person.
Compliance Priority	Select the priority this contract has for your organization. By default, this is set to '1- Critical', but you can change this value if necessary. When you add contract terms for this contract, the priority is copied to the new contract term, reducing data entry if the same compliance priority applies
Project Code	If this contract is part of a project, select the project from the list of existing projects. You are able to filter by the Project Code to generate reports and locate contracts associated with a specific project.
Vendor Code	The vendor you use for this contract, such as the elevator repair service for a contract focused on elevator safety. Validated by the Vendors table.
Summary	Enter a general summary of the contract. You can further detail it in the Description field.
Date Start/Date End	Enter the start and end dates of the contract.
Description	Information that further describes the contract. For example, you could enter the purpose of the contract.
Reason for hold	If the program status is On Hold, enter the reason for suspending the program.
Completion Criteria Type	The criteria used to assess when compliance has been achieved. For example, select Specified Deadline, Projected Date, Specified Event, Completed Requirements, Performance, or None (if there are no specific completion criteria.)
Completion Criteria	A further description of the completion criteria, such as the name and date of the event if an event is the completion criterion.
Date Approved Date Expired Date Renewed Date to Review Date Effective Date Last Reviewed	Enter these dates as necessary.

You can now enter the specific terms of the contract.
As necessary, you can add costs, locations, documents, notifications, and communication logs to your contract. See the Manage Contracts task.