Dear SAP experts,
We are in SRM 7.01 with ECC 6.05 deploying classic scenario, and central contract management (including services hierarchy in contract). We want to add MDM catalog (3.0) in our landscape and want to clarify some things:
a. We have some requisitions created in ECC (PR) and in SRM (SC). If we deploy MDM Catalog, can this catalog be accessed through PR screen in our ECC as well? How can we set it up?
b. As we are in classic scenario, we notice that even when we create SC in SRM, the contract suggested by the system as source of supply is the ECC contract number, rather than SRM central contract (we use central contract management, where contract negotiated in SRM and then distributed to ECC, generating a different contract number). In this case, when we want to load the contract to catalog and used in SC, which contract number should we used? The SRM contract number or the ECC contract number?
c. We use service hierarchy in our contract so the structure between SRM and ECC will be the same. As we understand that we can distribute this contract to catalog. In catalog, does the hierarchy is preserved? If it is preserved what will be the impact to SC? as we know when we create SC, we cannot have service hierarchy, so I assume that though the service is presented as hierarchy in catalog, once we pull the data to SC it will be in flat format. Is this correct?
d. Related to contract distributed to catalog, how does it work? Is this automatic, meaning that once we tick the distribution flag, and once the contract is
released (got final approver), the contract is automatically distributed to catalog? Or we should run a program to distribute it to catalog?
e. Related to point d, if the contract expire (current date is later than validity end date), what will happen to the data in the catalog? Is the data expires automatically or we need to clean it up manually?
Sorry for a lot of questions, hope someone can shed some lights to me.
Best regards,
John