Availability Check against Vendor Validity Period

[Former Member]

Hi All,

My present Scenario: Product catalog in the webshop contains products from different categories, most of them are procured internally. But only one catagory of products are provided by Vendors. It can be possible that one product can be supplied by multiple vendors. Here the Vendors should be able provide the validity periods for supplying a particular product (assuming Source list). My requirement is, when these products are entered in Webshop order, ATP should provide the Available quantities with respect to selected vendor and material.Is this possible? If possible, how can I achieve?. Kindly help me.

Regards,

S Reddy

[Former Member]

Is this a Web shop with CRM scenario or Web shop with R/3 (ERP) scenario?

Easwar Ram

http://www.parxlns.com

[Former Member]

Hi Ram,

yes, it is a CRM webshop scenario.

[Former Member]

Hello SR,

There are two faces to filling any process / software gaps.

1. Availablility of the required data / information for the new processes - Vendor, Vendor Source List, ATP information for the vendor products. Where do you think these are available. In fact the catalog and the webshop can provide the ATP information as long as the CRM is configured for the ATP. As you might have known by now, the CRM can be configured to provide ATP information by integrating to APO or to R/3. Rest of the requirement is a gap. If the CRM system has [Third Party Order Processing (TPOP)|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/fa/84944279c0c66ae10000000a155106/content.htm] configured, the availability of the ATP information for vendor products might become a part of the standard process.

2. Feasibility of providing a software solution to the gap - by means of enhancing the normal CRM / E-Commerce ordering process. As long as you have enough information, business processes.

For a simple answer, you can do this by developing:

<li> Custom fields and JSP changes - If the category of the product is X, then display additional input fileds regarding vendor and dates

<li> Custom Business Objects - To develop your custom enhancements,

<li> Custom Action classes - To get the vendors for a given product of category X, etc, etc. ,

<li> Custom Function Modules - To get the vendors for a given product of category X, To get the availability information from ??? if CRM is not configured for ATP, etc, etc.

<li> Custom changes to BAdI - To persist and get the right information at the right time from right place.

Did I miss anything? - Yes,you may also need a good consultant )

Have a great weekend.

Easwar Ram

http://www.parxlns.com

[Former Member]

Hi Ram,

Can give me the high level input for custom FM.

thanks,

S Reddy

[Former Member]

Hello SR,

Can you answer to this question I asked in the prev. message?. This will determine the scope of the solution!

1. Availablility of the required data / information for the new processes - Vendor, Vendor Source List, ATP information for the vendor products. Where do you think these are available. In fact the catalog and the webshop can provide the ATP information as long as the CRM is configured for the ATP. As you might have known by now, the CRM can be configured to provide ATP information by integrating to APO or to R/3.

Easwar Ram

http://www.parxlns.com

[Former Member]

Hi Ram,

Infact we are not using APO in our Scenario. the availablity check should happen in ECC. the necessary settings are done for normal ATP scenario.

[Former Member]

Vendor, Vendor Source List?

[Former Member]

Hi Ram,

thanks for your replies,

In ECC, we are maintaining vendors for a particular material in Tcode ME01 ( maintaining source list), this data is stored in ECC table 'EORD'. And also maintaing the Info Records in Tcode ME11( create Info Records), this data is stored in tables, EINA, EINE. To check stocks at Vendor we are using Tcode MBLB. this data is stored in table 'MSLB'. Ideally the FM should check table 'MSLB' in ECC( assuming).

thanks,

S Reddy

[Former Member]

Hello SR,

Since the master data for vendors is in R/3 and you require dynamic checking of certain products for the suppliers in the product catalog, it will be better if you keep the data in CRM in custom tables and use middleware to do initial and delta replications. This way, it will be relatively less complex and faster to implement any solution.

Your requirement demands all custom enhancements and many items are beyond the scope of discussing in a forum like this. It is more than a consulting help question now. If you do the design and need any specific technical help as to the Actions and methods that might help in your case, I can help you. But, helping in the design, is a consulting help and you must engage good consultants.

Happy Holidays.

Easwar Ram

http://www.parxlns.com