SRM 4.0: distributing contracts to legacy backend

[Former Member]

Hello!

I am programmer fairly new to SRM. At the moment I am trying to figure out how to distribute purchasing contracts from SRM to legacy via XI. There is apparently no XML ouput option in 4.0.

By reading docu I have found one possible way I think, and I just wanted to run it by you to see if it is doable at all.

I was thinking I can use the build in functionality to create the contract in a R/3 backend system. Using the BADI BBP_CTR_BE_CREATE, which actually just creates an IDoc (or?) and the BBP_DETERMINE_LOGSYS I could just route it to XI instead of R/3.

Do you experts see any reason why this would not work?

Any help appreciated!

Thanks

Nam

[Former Member]

Oh, by the way, we are using a stand alone scenario with NO R/3 backend at all, only other legacy systems. We are upgrading to 5.0 shortly.

[yann_bouillut]

Hi Nam,

Did you already check following post ?

Kind regards,

Yann

[Former Member]

Hello Yann,

thanks, I did. I just wanted to see if you thought it would work to turn on synchronization of contracts and use the "standard BADI" and still have a "stand alone" configuration or if there were any other implications.

I also wanted to check if anyone else is sending contracts to legacy backend via XI and see if they had any tips.

Cheers,

Nam

[Former Member]

Hi Nam,

to replicate CTR from standlone SRM, you should use the BADI DOC SAVE to trigger the replication process.

In this BADI you can use contract transfer function (BBP_PD_CTR_TRANSFER), but you will get blocked by standard design:

- SRM local contracts are transfered to CCM via XI if the corresponding flag is set in contract header

- SRM global contracts are transfered to R/3 via IDOC (in fact an RFC call out of SRM, creating IDOCs directly in R/3: no outbound IDOCs in SRM) if they are global (normal...)

So you should develop your own transfer function, re-using parts of BBP_PD_CTR_TRANSFER (especially META_CTR_TRANSFER that could be a good starting point to pass data to XI via an RFC call).

Rgds

Christophe