Bidder replicated from SRM to ECC/MDG

[Former Member]

Hello,

This is our system landscape

• We are using SRM 7.0 in the Classic Scenario.
• MDG is used for the approval workflow for all vendor creations and changes. It is set up as an add-on to ECC.
• The current design for vendor master records in ECC does not include business partner configuration for vendors.
  It also doesn’t include CVI.
  Only the traditional ECC vendor master is supposed to be used.

Scenario

1.    A potential supplier is created as a bidder in SRM, and firstly only exists in SRM e.g. to submit bids.

2.    The decision is made to ‘promote’ the bidder to a vendor e.g. his bid was accepted.

3.    The Bidder is distributed from SRM to MDG as he has to pass through approval process in MDG.

4.    After the approval in MDG the vendor is distributed to ECC and synced with SRM, so it can be used on Shopping Carts, in Account Payable etc.

Questions

1.    How can we achieve that the number of a vendor is the same in all systems i.e.:
vendor number in ECC = BP of vendor in SRM?

Do we have to set up the business partner functionality or CVI in ECC/MDG to achieve that? (which would be huge amount of rework for us)

Or is there a way to do it without setting up business partners/CVI in ECC/MDG? (our preferred option)

2.    Is Step 3 & the syncing back to SRM of step 4 possible in standard SAP? Or does SRM not integrate with MDG and the standard distribution form SRM (via Idoc) only integrates with ECC directly?

I found some info here, but not the actual answer. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm703/helpdata/en/c1/ed3c190b3e494aab735a803a2de462/content.htm?framese...

3.    If we use business partners/CVI in ECC/MDG do we need the following:

vendor number in ECC = BP of vendor in SRM = BP in ECC?

The blue part is want we want to achieve for easy usability.

The red part is our question: it that a technical necessity to achieve to achieve the blue part?

Or can the BP number is ECC be something compeltey different?

Thanks for your help.

Ulli

[ivy_li · Accepted solution]

Hi Ulli,

In order to synchronize the BPs for ROS to SRM and ECC to SRM, I would give the following suggestion:

In the ECC to SRM replication we can identify duplicates based on the address data. This is an option which can be selected on the BBPGETVD initial screen. This should prevent the creation of duplicate BPs. However in the ROS to ECC transfer there are many limitations regarding the transfer of address data to ECC So there are two options for you:

1, use BADIs to make sure address data is equal before replicating the vendor from ECC to SRM

2, not to replicate the vendor with BBPGETVD from ECC to SRM, instead go into the BP editing webdynpro in SRM and assign the backend vendor number manually on the supplier data tab. Afterwards ECC vendor and SRM BP is connected, BBPUPDVD will recognize it and update the SRM BP with ECC vendor data automatically.

Hope this helps anyway.

By the way, would you please tell me how you transfer bidder from SRM to MDG & from MDG to ECC?

I know MDG is one add-on to ECC system, but not familiar with this.

Best regards,

Ivy

[Former Member]

Hello,
we ended up changing our design and have now:
vendor number in ECC = BP of vendor in SRM = BP in ECC

The MDG is replicating the BP (not the vendor) to SRM.  With some added purchasing data.
This is done via web services.

As we are replication the BP, we are sending a bidder with role BBP001 when an entity is only a bidder. Once it is promoted to a vendor in MDG the BP role BBP000 added and sent to SRM.

Cheers
Ulli

[ivy_li]

Hi Ulli,

As I know, MDG is add-on to ERP system, and there should not be BBP*** roles in ECC side.

Am I right?

Do you mean that the vendor in MDG with some kind of role is converted to role BBP000 in SRM side?

If so, please tell me the role in MDG.

Best regards,

Ivy

[Former Member]

Hello albrecht,

We try to make similar scenario. Did you fix the issue ? Or did yo go with another way ?

We will work with MDG and supplier will create on ECC site without Bussiness partner. After that supplier transfer to SRM and we need to connect SRM site bidder and that supplier.

Is any suggestion about that ?

Regards,

Samet