SRM and ECC (MM) - what licenses are needed?

[ross_anderson2]

We are implementing SRM on top of Enterprise Portal. EP will thus connect to SRM as well as ECC for MM. The question is, what license, if any, is required in the ECC system for each end user?

Our SAP rep has said that the SRM license is all that you need and that you do not need an additional license to allow the user to also connect to the ECC system - I cannot see how this is true.

Can someone direct to me any SAP documentation re: SRM and ECC/MM licensing or explain to me how this works?

Thanks!!

[vinita_kasliwal · Accepted solution]

Hi Ross

Not very clear with your question but if you install SRM the users would be created in the SRM system

and whatever data you need to access via creation of carts etc would be accessible via RFC call to ECC

Since you already have a productive system in backend I am assuming you would be going for a classic scenario where SRM would only be used as front end for raising a SC and then the PO gets created in ECC itself .

From license perspective I am not sure if some one would be able to give an accurate information as The pricing of SAP isnt public and also varies customer to customer suggest you to open an OSS note or better question your SAP representative on it

It basically is given for 100 users and also for a support perspective for developers and Functional consultants , the users which are having access to ECC would be able to check both the sC and PO however those which are given access in SRM would be using the SRM portal for creation of carts etc .

I hope it clarifies a bit ..

Regards

Vinita

[ross_anderson2 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply Vinita. Basically, I'm just trying to determine if the end users who are accessing SRM (via the Portal) will consume an ECC license as well if they are hitting MM data in the ECC system. You are correct, we are using the classic scenario since we already have ECC in place.

We do have RFCs to both the SRM and ECC systems from the portal; however, if you watch the actual connections that are being made from the user's browser, when a user opens a shopping cart there are direct connections made from the browser to the SRM and ECC systems (ie. http://srmserver:8000/..). This means the data from the back systems is not being proxied through the portal and back to the end user, but rather directly to the end user.

This is why I'm wondering if a user needs an ECC license in addition to the requisite SRM license, or does the SRM license include the ability to access the ECC system as well.

Thanks for the info!

[vinita_kasliwal · Accepted solution]

Hi Ross

No separate cost should be charged for it . Certain things like account assignment data , Company code data etc are picked from the back end and is a standard functionality of the SRM product

Also rem these are not accessed by the each user but via RFC call via a RFC user in your  SRM system

Since this is a product functionality to avoid duplication of efforts they have left certain checks to be only done at ECC end and I see no reason why they should be charging for it .

Only users who access the SRM portal or SRM backend should be chargeable

I have seen mostly users taking ONLY  SRM roles for all end users and only when some one needs to check the PO etc details then an MM ID is required .

Regards

Vinita