Sourcing CLM-SRM Integration : Supplier mapping

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

We have successfully implemented the CLM-SRM integration in our landscape.Further to this we have some clarifications required regaridng certain possibilities regarding this scenario.

1. Is it possible to have a different vendor names for a same vendor in SRM and CLM and to map these via XI in some way.

2 What is the primary purpose of  'External Validation' option in CLM which we see in Master Agreement.

Please let me know your valuable suggestions on this topic.

Thanks and regards,

Gopi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Gopi,

    It is definitely possible to map the Vendors in PI provided you have the mapping related data available in PI somehow during the process of Publish to SRM once the XML is generated out of CLM. (but from the point of view of CLM the vendor used in the Master agreement must match the vendor master record)

2. The External Validation option is used to validate the various master data and the relationships as per the ERP system. this is done in the CLM system prior to publishing the Master agreement to ERP/SRM, in order to avoid errors being sent from the ERP/SRM system back to the CLM user after having saved and published the Master agreement.

(Ex: if you are using a POrg and PGrp and the relationship is not valid as maintained in ERP, then it is more usable when the CLM application can promptl the User right away that the data is incorrect instead of waiting for the message to come back from ERP/SRM after publishing).

Hope this clarifies..

Regards

Prasad

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Prasad,

Thank you very much for the response. I comprehend the second query of mine now.

Further..to be more elaborate on my first question. What if there is a an existing vendor in SRM and we have the same vendor created in Sourcing with a different number( External ID) . Could you please be more precise about what PI content we are talking about here.  As you know there might me huge number of vendors in SRM and practically it is not possible to create all of them manually in CLM.

Is there a possibility to take any single attribute of vendor and based on this do some mapping in PI with code?

Thanks and Regards,

Gopi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Gopi,

   A supplier record in SAP sourcing especially for the vendors imported from ECC and other systems will have 2 pieces of information (in the master data of SAP Sourcing).

1. is the external ID. and 2 is the "external vendor number" in the business systems tab.

During publishing of contracts to ECC or SRM, the "external vendor number" from the business system tab is sent along with the contract. the External ID filed that you see in SAP Sourcing is important key field in SAP Sourcing alone.

It is not usual to import vendors from SRM (especially if you have an ECC) since you have already imported these vendors into the SRM from ECC. So similarly using standard interfaces and reports provided by SAP Sourcing you can import the vendors from ECC to SAP Sourcing. When you use this vendors in contracts and publish them to SRM it will still work since the vendors will be the same across SAP Sourcing, ECC and SRM.

I wish this clarifies... if not please do provide an example and I can better explain..

Regards

Prasad

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Prasad,

hope you are doing fine.

I´m standing in front of a riddle!

I´m sending from the CLM-System a Contract to the SRM-System.

This can also be created without problems in the source system, as long as we have registered for the appropriate document type in the SRM as "internal number range".

But I want that the central contract is created in SRM with the "external number" and thus there is a single number for the contract.

Thus, this number would be the same in CLM and SRM.

Unfortunately, the SRM central contract always requires an " internal number ".

If this is not available, then there is a error (CX_SY_REF_IS_INITIAL) in the distribution of CLM contract at SRM.

Do you know if a BAdI in the Component "ESOSRMINT" exists, which can help me?

Thank you very much and best regards

Ghumaan