Vendors in Standalone scenario

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Still trying to figure out a couple of things regarding the standalone scenario. Had a few more questions.

If vendors are created in the SRM system, do they have to exist in the R/3 system as well? (If no, what are the accounts that get updated? - which account get credited/debited?)

Is there a provision of creating Purchase requisitions in SRM? (Sourcing not yet enabled, only SSP enabled so far) How do users request for material?

To transfer the SRM materials to the catalog, is XI required? Can this be bypassed?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Robert G.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

Usually vendor masters have to come from R3 backend system. Bcoz all account posting happen in R3 but not in SRM(SRM is not an ERP system). You need to synchronize the vendor masters in R3 and SRM to carry out your procurement activities thru SRM.

Yes, there is provision to create a PR (rather term it as submit as PR) in SRM while you create SC in SRM. If you dont know the price of the product or the vendor to whom the product has to purchase from at the time of SC, in the basic data tab of SC, flag the check box 'submit as PR' which will route this SC to purchaser worklist for furhter action (maintaing price and assigning vendor).

Depending upon the system config you can have PR in R3 as a follow-on document for SC created in SRM.

I think, XI is not mandatory to transfer materials from SRM to CCM. You can use report BBP_CCM_TRANSFER_CATALOG for the same.

Rgds

Reddy