Manage Business Partner functionality in SRM 7

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am sure few of us must be using SRM7 by now. Can you please check and let me know whether you can use Manage Business Parter functionality in SRM7 or not?

If yes then please share the SRM as well as portal role.

We would like to remove supplier tag for one of our business partner.

Regards,

Sandeep Parab

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Sandeep,

You need to have SRM administrator role to get access to manage supplier.

Go to External Business partner query - supplier, select the vendor and click edit.

Thanks,

-Devi Swain

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Devi,

This would help me to change the tagging of business partner like supplier or bidder. I remember in SRM 5 we use to have a Manage business partner where in one can pull the accepted potential supplier from registration system to SRM as Supplier or bidder. I am unable to find this Manage Business partner transaction in SRM 7.

If you look the SRM role for administrator you can see the Manage business partner transaction, but it not available from Portal.

Any idea how do we get access to that screen from portal?

Regards,

Sandeep

[masa_139 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If you maintain Supplier Directory catalog, you see the button "Add External Supplier From ..." in the "Create Supplier" WebDynpro. Please double check that you have maintained a Supplier Directory catalog. Business Type of WebService should be "Supplier Directory".

Regards,

Masa

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Masa,

I did notice the 'Add external supplier from' in create supplier or bidder option. However there is a small catch and your experience may help.

Let me explain the requirement and scenario here in SRM 7.

We are implementing the Registration of Supplier scenario; both ROS and SRM are in same client. When a potential supplier registers themselves in the registration system, a BP number is created (an Internal number range is defined for this). After accepting the potential supplier in pre-select screen the purchaser has two options to transfer the potential supplier from the ROS system to SRM

Option 1: He can select the accepted potential supplier from the supplier directory option and transfer the business partner to SRM. In this case the business partner number of the potential supplier is retained in SRM and a business partner with supplier and bidder tag is created. However the purchaser does not have any option to select which type of business partner he would like to create like supplier or bidder.

Option 2: Purchase can go to create supplier or bidder option and choose the u2018Add external supplier formu2019 from the ROS system and create the business partner. The ROS business partner details are copied to the create supplier screen, but the purchaser have to provide an external business partner number for the supplier. This is because we have defined external number range for business partner for the vendors that are replicated from ERP to SRM.

Objective is the ROS business partner should be retained in SRM with option to create as supplier and bidder and then manually create ERP supplier with same SRM BP number and map against SRM supplier.

Is there any way we can achieve this?

In SRM 5.5 with Manage business partner functionality we could achieve as system give us the option which business partner type we would like to create as well as retains the ROS BP number in SRM.

Regards

Sandeep

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi sandeep ,

You mentioned about manage business partner transaction in 5.0 . Is this transaction availaible in SRM 4.0

And also could you tell how exactly we should type in this transaction.