Hello,
This is our system landscape
- We are using SRM 7.0 in the Classic Scenario.
- MDG is used for the approval workflow for all vendor creations and changes. It is set up as an add-on to ECC.
- The current design for vendor master records in ECC does not include business partner configuration for vendors.
It also doesn’t include CVI.
Only the traditional ECC vendor master is supposed to be used.
Scenario
1. A potential supplier is created as a bidder in SRM, and firstly only exists in SRM e.g. to submit bids.
2. The decision is made to ‘promote’ the bidder to a vendor e.g. his bid was accepted.
3. The Bidder is distributed from SRM to MDG as he has to pass through approval process in MDG.
4. After the approval in MDG the vendor is distributed to ECC and synced with SRM, so it can be used on Shopping Carts, in Account Payable etc.
Questions
1. How can we achieve that the number of a vendor is the same in all systems i.e.:
vendor number in ECC = BP of vendor in SRM?
Do we have to set up the business partner functionality or CVI in ECC/MDG to achieve that? (which would be huge amount of rework for us)
Or is there a way to do it without setting up business partners/CVI in ECC/MDG? (our preferred option)
2. Is Step 3 & the syncing back to SRM of step 4 possible in standard SAP? Or does SRM not integrate with MDG and the standard distribution form SRM (via Idoc) only integrates with ECC directly?
I found some info here, but not the actual answer.http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm703/helpdata/en/c1/ed3c190b3e494aab735a803a2de462/content.htm?frameset=/en/45/e76729b3544ebde10000000a11466f/frameset.htm
3. If we use business partners/CVI in ECC/MDG do we need the following:
vendor number in ECC = BP of vendor in SRM =BP in ECC?
The blue part is want we want to achieve for easy usability.
The red part is our question: it that a technical necessity to achieve to achieve the blue part?
Or can the BP number is ECC be something compeltey different?
Thanks for your help.
Ulli