You are right that a migration team might take an alternate approach. The legacy load usually assumes the contracts are either still in paper form or perhaps coming from another system in Excel spreadsheets and also that there's no actual integration services. A recent customer uses Ariba contracts as the data and document repository and for approvals and SAP. The customer is in the process of automating an integration between the 2 systems using web services. Unfortunately, this is not my area of expertise and so I can't give you too much information. There is an integration manual in the Help section under Administration that discusses integration but I don't think it is too detailed.
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