Plan Driven Procurement

[Former Member]

Hi gurus,

i need some information about the Purchase Requisition (PR) state after the transfer of requirements from R/3 to SRM system.

1) which is the table to control the PR transfered in order to check if is possible to process in R/3 that purchase requisition? EPRTRANS or T160EX or others?

I hope EPRTRANS; but if i'm right, why the table is cleared after migration? In the other case (T160EX) the system (R/3) can check only PR transfereble and not transfered! Are there other tables?

2) What happen if i modify a PR in R/3 after its transfer to SRM?

3) What happen if i delete a PR in R/3 after its transfer to SRM?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Regards.

Simone

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Simone,

The table that contains the purchase requisitions eligible for transfer from R/3 to SRM is EPRTRANS.

Table T160EX defines which purchase requisitions in SAP R/3 will be populated in the EPRTRANS table by purchasing group and material group combination.

When the requisitions are populated in EPRTRANS, they are replicated to the SRM Sourcing Cockpit as external requirements via the R/3 program BBP_EXTREQ_TRANSFER.

-regards

Shaz

[Former Member]

Hi,

New Requisitions have a copy status of 1 in the EPRTRANS table

Changed Requisitions have a copy status of 2(changed,not transfered).

New Requisiions and changes are transfered when the transfer program is run.

[Former Member]

HI,

your answer is very useful for me.

But now i have to make you other questions to solve my problem.

I understood that in EPRTRANS there are PR and their state.

What happes to PR IN TABLE EPRTRANS when the program is run ? Because i don't know if they will change the state or they are deleated from table. I hope the first case, because this mean that system can read EPRTRANS to verify in R/3 if that PR is atualy processble in R/3 or in SRM.

have I understood well?

I know that i can modify in R/3 a PR transferred to SRM, because the running of a program will change the correspondent requisition in SRM.

But what happen if i delete one or all the position of my PR?

can i order in R/3 a PR transfered to SRM?

Thanks in advance.

Regards.

simone

[yann_bouillut]

Hi Simone,

As soon as PR is sent into SRM sourcing cockpit, EPRTRANS table entry is deleted.

Kind regards,

Yann

[Former Member]

HI Yann,

but, if EPRTRANS table entry is deleted As soon as PR is sent into SRM, where does system read in R/3 if a PR is sent to SRM to let order the same PR directly in R/3?

I proved to order in R/3 a PR sent in SRM and the stystem stoped me by an error message ...Somethink like: "The PR ir orderble only in SRM".

Wich table is read from the system to put that message?

is T1160EX?

Simone

[yann_bouillut]

Hi Simone,

What is the eror message code and class ?

Kind regards,

Yann

[Former Member]

Hi Yann,

The message is the follolwing

6Q 202

I think, and i'm quite sure, that system reads Table T160EX, and the message is releated to PR sendeble and not sent effectively to SRM.

What do you think about?

Simone

[yann_bouillut]

Hi Simone,

Function module BBP_EPROFILE_LOCAL_PROCESS is called and return this message.

Investigation required

kind regards,

Yann

[Former Member]

Simone,

In planned procurement scenario, the criteria for requirements to be transferred from R/3 to sourcing cockpit is stored in table T160EX. Requirements that meet that criteria is flagged with an external profile (EBAN-EPROFILE = X) and logged in the EPRTRANS table. The EPRTRANS table entry is deleted once the requirement is transferred to the sourcing cockpit.

The external profile flag on the requisition is what prevents the requisition from being ordered directly in R/3 and triggers the error message that you received.

Kenny