External SAP Portal for Bidders in SRM 7.0

[Former Member]

Hi All

In the strategic sourcing Business Scenario, we need to enable the bidders to submit their bids from outside the network firewall.

Some questions in this regard:

1) Should we have a separate portal for the bidders ( from the one used by the employees inside the firewall) for security

purpose?? Earlier I had seen a different URL for SAP enterprise portal for external vendors at a client place.However not sure if it is a single Portal instance or two separate ones.

2) Do we need to install a SAP Web dispatcher in the DMZ as suggested by SAP in the SRM 7.0 security guide for the external portal? Could we simply make the Enterprise portal available outside without setting up the DMZ

3) Since portal is role based, the suppliers won't be able to access anything else, then the process bids screen.What are the other security concerns if the same portal is shared between employees and suppliers?

Regards

Kedar

[masa_139 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It depends on customer's security policy.

By the way, user can access SRM 7.0 via NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC) browser without NetWeaver Portal.

Regards,

Masa

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Masa,

In a portal environment, what is the best practice?

Should the same portal be shared with bidders or should it be different?

Regards

Kedar

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

Bidding always happens in your SRM System, although External partners execute that activity. It really depends on your security policies whether you want to give them http or https access...

Regards

Virender Singh

[masa_139 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Security Guide can help you. http://service.sap.com/srm-inst

Regards,

Masa