PO in SRM and R/3- How to distinguish

[Former Member]

Hi all:

we have SRM and R/3 and we do reporting in BW.

i know lot of BW and i am trying to catch with up with EBP now.

aswe know a SC is created in SRM, it gets (may/maynot) approved.

in our case once it gets approved although a PO is created in SRM we replicate that PO in R/3 and GR and Invoice are generated in R/3. i am clear till this part.

Q 1. instead of extracting R/3 PO's to BW can i use SRM PO's directly(my source system is defined already)

Q 2. But my Invoices are created in R/3. so, can i only pull invoices data from R/3 and the rest from SRM.

Thanks

Kavi.

i will assign points for useful answers

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

1) The PO data can be extracted from SRM or R/3 . But the advantage of extracting data from R/3 is that you have lot many other data while compared to SRM system . In case u are having SRM and Sap R/3 or ECC as your backend system , it is always better to extract PO data from R/3 or ECC. In case your backend system is going to be other than SAP system , probably we can think of extracting data from SRM.

2) GR and invoice data always have to be pulled from R/3 system

3) Shopping cat details exist only in SRM and the details has to be extracted only from SRM .

Suggest to extract 1) shopping cart from SRM 2) PO,GR and Invoice from SAP R/3 or ECC.

Hope above clarifies your questions

Regards

Mani

Message was edited by:

Manikanda Ilango S.

Message was edited by:

Manikanda Ilango S.

[Former Member]

Hi Kavi,

ad 1) Yes, You can use SRM PO's in BW (specially for Extendend Class. Scenario).

In transaction BBP_PD (on SRM side) for object type BUS2201 (PO) You can find all nessesary information about PO's, SC's etc.

ad 2) Yes, You can do that,

Regards,

Marcin Gajewski

[Former Member]

Thanks all.

I gave points

kavi

[Former Member]

Hello,

Q 1, yes, but you will not be sure that the PO has been transferred correctly.

Q 2, you can create invoices also in SRM, they get transferred to the R/3 as logistic invoice, it depends on what kind of invoices you need to read.

Regards, Luciano.