Direct Posting to Contracts and Business roles in SRM

Hi guys,

We have SRM 7 and ECC 6.0.

Please consider the following business scenario:

1. Invoice creation in SRM against ERP contract that has been previously replicated to SRM;
2. No PO or GR involved in this process;
3. Possibility to have one contract to vendor A, and the corresponding invoices for different vendors.

Considering this we thought about the following solution:

1. Activate Direct Posting to Contracts functionality in ERP;
2. Contract, supplier and materials / services replication to SRM, through PI;
3. Allow different partners in the contract, using partner role “Invoicing party” (RS), so that it would be possible to post an invoice to vendor B, with reference to a contract with vendor A.

Questions:

• Reporting – as far as I know it’s only possible to run analyses for vendors, which in our case would be vendor A, assigned to the contract.  However, we will need to have information about the invoices posted to the other business partners that are assigned to that contract. Do you have any idea if there is any standard approach for this?
• Contract and business roles replication to SRM – does the contract and the assigned business roles could be replicated to SRM or is it required any specific customizing in SRM for this to be possible?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

AN