How to handle early procurement process

[Former Member]

Dear SAP gurus,

We are in SRM 7.01 with backend ECC 6.05 and we are using extended classic scenario. In our company, to make the procurement process to be faster, we decide to use early procurement process, in which, though the SC is not approved yet, we already make RFx for suppliers.

We know that this already supported in 7.02, but can you suggest how this is done if we are still in 7.01. We are thinking that we could use this process:

1. SC created,

2. RFx is created without reference, then getting the winner,

3. However after SC approved, there will be no link between SC and RFx, or later on between PO and RFx

Is there a better way to handle this in SRM? Any suggestions are welcomed and highly appreciated.

Best regards,

Josh

[Former Member]

Hi Josh,

In my opinion you should go with Ehp2 for SAP SRM7.0 for following BP benifit:

You can create an RFx from a shopping cart with the status Awaiting Approval or Saved. This allows you to start the shopping cart approval process and the RFx creation process simultaneously. Also, by creating an RFx directly from the shopping cart before accessing the Sourcing application,
purchasers can see the approximate value of a shopping cart before it is approved or rejected.
When an employee orders a shopping cart, it appears in the purchaser's universal worklist (UWL).
The purchaser can then create an RFx directly from the Item Overview tab page of the shopping cart.
Purchasers can receive RFx responses based on an RFx created directly from a shopping cart, but no RFx responses can be accepted until a shopping cart has been approved.
Purchasers can also update the value of a shopping cart based on the RFx responses before the shopping cart is approved.
The purchaser is notified once a shopping cart has been approved.
A work item is then available in the purchaser's worklist with a link to the RFx that was created from the approved shopping cart.

With Ehp2, you will be benifited with many other Business functions. For more info, please refer Sap RIN 1582094 and also the related notes you can find here.

For more details, kindly go through below URL.

http://scn.sap.com/community/srm/blog/2012/04/04/why-you-should-ramp-up-to-sap-srm-70-ehp2--part-1-s...

Thanks,
Hari