SAP R/3 MM and Electronic external Catalog

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Client is having SAP 4.6c in place and want to implement Supplier hosted External Catalog integration with R/3 Purchasing as given below:

1. End user to create Purchase requisition with reference external Supplier catalog.

2. Price and vendor information from catalog to PR.

3. Buyer to cran eate PO with reference to PR using catalog data.

4.How this can be achieved ? What should be the landscape and What are the configuration to be made in R/3.

TIA

Regards

Sanjay

5. How this can be OCI compliant.

[Former Member]

Did you manage to finally implement this SAP R/3 MM and electronic external catalog. Please i need to do the same for one of my clients. Do you have any information on this set-up.

please send

[Former Member]

Hi Juergen,

Plz this is very very urgent.

i have written a small transaction in MM where the users can access OCI compliant catalogues and then create a PR. If you have interest please let me know.

I am really interested in above custom transaction.

Can you send me your documentation at

vijayppatil_79@hotmail.com

Regard

Vijay Patil

[Former Member]

Sanjay,

does your client have plans to update his R/3? In SAP R/3 6.0 (ECC) is standard the communication between R/3 and CCM. I've set the MM purchase requisition to push data from CCM catalogs.

I don't know 4.6c version, but please check IMG configs.

Regards,

Cristiano Soares

[Former Member]

Hi Sanjay,

this will be standard with mySAP ERP 2005 (ECC 6.0), using OCI.

Before this, SRM is the only tool to communicate with catalogs.

Rgds

Christophe

[Former Member]

Hi Christophe,

We still want to go ahead in SAP 4.6c. Can you suggest some development solution to achieve this.

Process requirement is End user to create Pur Requisition in R/3 with reference to External Supplier catalog and Price and other vendor details are going to PR from Supplier catalog.

Pls. help.

Regards

Sanjay Sharma

[Former Member]

Hi Sanjay,

In the past, a consulting proposal was available to downgrade catalog access from PM work order transaction, from R/3 4.7 R/3 4.6C.

Unfortunllty (and fortunatly for us, SRM guys), there is nothing similar for MM...

Rgds

Christophe

[Former Member]

HiChristophe,

Thanks for reply.

Still customer want to go ahaed with External catalog with MM. As per Customer some client has done the same with extensive development.

I would do like to know if we have decided to this for any amount of development than what it takes.

I mean what could be land scape is Trex required for search in PR for external catalog. Is RFC connection required between External Supplier catalog to MM?

Is some I DOC management is requitred to flow price and Vendor data to Purchase requisition.

Dear Christophe Pls. help in guiding. There should be some way to do this.

Thanks

Regards

Sanjay

[Former Member]

Sanjay,

Ask your customer about what has been done at other clients, and do the same.

The catalog logic is based on a communication protocol: Open Catalog Interface (OCI), than can send back sent catalog items by HTML or XML.

Search on the forum for OCI documentation links.

IDOC is used for asynchronous message exchange, and does not suits this kind of communication.

TREX is used to index some content and search it. It is used by SAP CCM to index and search inside your catalogs.

This is a search "engine" used also in SAP EP.

Other solution: look how if done the catalog link on PM and realize the same for MM.

I cannot do more.

Rgds

Christophe

[Former Member]

Sanjay,

for a customer i have written a small transaction in MM where the users can access OCI compliant catalogues and then create a PR. If you have interest please let me know.

Beste Regards

Juergen

[Former Member]

Hi Juergen,

I am really interested in this custom transaction.

Can you send me your documentation at christophe.denysiak@sap.com ?

Rgds

Christophe

[yann_bouillut]

Hi Juergen,

I am interested too

my mail is yannbouillut@yahoo.fr

Thanks

Kind regards,

Yann

[Former Member]

Juergen

I am interested in that customized transaction.

Can you send me the same at nj_reddy@yahoo.com.

Thanks

Jagdish

[Former Member]

Hi Juergen,

Pls. post details for the benefit of all.

Thanks

Sanjay

sanjay_lko@yahoo.com

[Former Member]

Hi Juergen,

I am also looking for this kind of solution in 4.6c. There is OCI interface config in 4.7 (PM) but not in 4.6c. Can you please send me the details of your development to me (viji_palani@yahoo.com)?

Thanks

Palani

[Former Member]

Hi Jürgen,

I am really interested in this custom transaction.

Can you send me your documentation at claudia.michaels@email.de?

Thanks,

Claudia

[Former Member]

Hi Juergen,

I am also really interested in this custom MM transaction.

Can you send me your documentation at ben@heythorp.co.uk?

Thanks in advance

Ben

[Former Member]

Hi Jourgen,

I'm also interested in the interface that you created because it is going to help me to understand if it is possible to do it for SAP 4.7c.

Could you please send me the details?

My e-mail is:

c.lopez.sanchez@orange.es

Thanks a lot in advance

Carlos Lopez

[yann_bouillut]

Hi,

To all people who sent me a mail :

unfortunately, i never received the document from Juergen.

Kind regards,

Yann

[masa_139]

Hi Juergen,

I'm also interested in your custom transaction.

Please send me the detail at masayuki.sekihara@sap.com ?

Regards,

Masa

[Former Member]

Hello,

Can I get the documentation from any one of you please.

Thanks,

Abdul

[Former Member]

Can you please send it to be.

Best Regards,

Nooman

[Former Member]

Hi Sanjay,

I am not aware how you can link Supplier hosted External Catalog to R/3 MM.

But this is certainly possible if you have EBP & CCM components along with R/3 MM.

BR

Dinesh