Integrating Hosted E-Sourcing to ERP for Contracts

[Former Member]

Hello All.

We are using a Hosted version of E-Sourcing 5.1 release.

Also, we are implementing SAP SRM 7.0 and SAP ECC 6.0.

I have the following 2 questions to fellow experts that might have come across this:

1. Is anyone doing Contract Integration between E-Sourcing and ECC or SRM?

2. Is your E-Sourcing environment "Hosted" or "On-Premise".

We want to eventually get the hosted platform to an On-Premise, but prior to that we would like to leverage to Integrate the Contracts (Master Agreements) in E-Sourcing with either SRM or ECC.

We are aware that for integration w SRM there are no standard content available in the Packaged Integation Solution from SAP.

Thanks for your comments.

Tony !

[Former Member]

Hello All

We are looking for services of an independent consultant to guide us with the installation of SAP NetWeaver PI and then integration of SAP on-demand solutions SAP E-Sourcing & CLM.

This is a trial project for our Australian operations and if done successfully, can be implemented to global operations, which are unfortunately using different modules of SAP ERP.

Currently we are using SAP ECC 6.0 on Windown NT with MSSQL database. There are some service pack updates also due and that may affect the schedule of PI installation etc.

So please feel free to contact us if you have requisite experience with SAP on-demand solution implementations.

Cheers

Sanjeev

[Former Member]

Hi Sanjeev,

As an organization we have capability around E-Sourcing / CLM implementations. From what I understnad, it will require you more than 1 Consultant to help in the tasks mentioned.

You can contact me on the email available on my Business card in case you want to pursue this further.

Vikram Shukla

[tridip_chakraborthy]

Hi Toni

Here are answers to your questions

1. Is anyone doing Contract Integration between E-Sourcing and ECC or SRM?

We have installed the On-premise SAP E-Sourcing 5.1 and carried out the ECC integration with the help of the integration consulting note 1115679. Once you complete the On-premise installation, please oopen an OSS message and SAP will ship out/provide access to the consulting note mentioned above which you can use to integrate SAP ECC with SAP E-Sourcing.

The E-Sourcing MSA to ERP/ECC outline agreement is a standard adapter provided by SAP.

Incase you want to integrate with SRM, you need to do some custom development arond the SRM Contract create BAPI by copying the same interface that takes the MSA to the outline agreement. You need to create a Proxy for moving the E-SOurcing award to a Contract in SRM.

2. Is your E-Sourcing environment "Hosted" or "On-Premise".

Ours is an on premise installation

Note

We use CLM for Contract Authoring and Lifecyle management. Our SRM contract is pushed into ECC as a distributed backend contract, we use the CLM solution to perform the legal contract authoring and then reference this to the SRM central contract and the backend contract using the interfaces developed by us.

To summarize, you have to build the interfaces b/w SAP E-Sourcing to SRM, you can copy the interface delivered in Consulting note 1115679 and build over them to realise the 3 way integration

Let me know if you have any specific questions

Regards

Tridip

[Former Member]

Thanks - appreciate your response.

[Former Member]

When you say you have it integrated with ECC I assume you have 6.0.

We implemented eSourcing about a year ago on ECC 5.0 and are currently upgrading to ECC 6.0. Do you know the ECC 6.0 function module that is used to carry out the contract push? The one we used in 5.0 does not seem to be there in ECC 6.0

Thanks in advance,

Matt

[tridip_chakraborthy]

toni

BBP_CTR_BE_CREATE CONTRACT_INTERFACE_FILL SRM 7.0 To Create Contract in the Backend

CONTRACT_PROCESS_TYPE_FILL SRM 7.0

BBP_CTR IF_EX_BBP_CTR, MODIFY_IDOC_DATA_CTR ECC 6.0 BBP Contract Data Change to determine Company Code

Regards

Tridip

[Former Member]

Hi Tridip

By 3-way integration between SAP E Sourcing, SRM and ECC do you mean that any updation carried out in ECC or SRM contract would also reflect in e sourcing master agreement? for e.g. suppose in ECC u create a PO for 10 units of an item based on an outline agreement meant for 100 items.Once this is done outline agreement quantity would be updated to 100 - 10= 90 items. Now would the master agreement in e sourcing that was the original source and the contract in SRM would also reflect the quantity as 90?

Please help as we are also looking to implement a similar scenario..

Regards

Tripti