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using catalogs in R3 4.7 (MM-Purchasing) without SRM

Former Member
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I would like to know if and how you can use catalogs in R3 4.7 (MM-Purchasing) without using SRM.

For example, the OCI interface does that come with SRM or is it available separately?

The question is mainly posed because of cost reasons (client doesn't want to buy SRM license just for calling a catalog in R3 itself).

Thanks.

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yann_bouillut
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Hi,

In addition to Dinesh answer, the catalog can be called as of R/3 4.7.

Kind regards,

Yann

Former Member
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Hi,

I am summarising some useful info for you:



This is standard behaviour.
A java based catalog can be plugged in ECC60.
User can access catalogue from ME51N as well as ME21N.
Just go in ECC SPRO :
Materials Management -> Purchasing -> Environment Data -> Web Services: ID and Description

Call structure is the same as in SRM

Also, read following documentation:



Integration of Web-Based Catalogs in Purchasing
Purpose
Uploading and Downloading Catalogs
In Purchasing, you can also make use of Web-based catalogs via an OCI interface. You can not only upload purchasing data from the system into a catalog but also download catalog data into material items of purchasing documents (requisitions with ME51N and POs with ME21N).

Send Purchasing Data to a Catalog
Using the transaction Send Purchasing Data to Catalog (transaction code MECCM), you can transfer data from material items of purchase contracts and purchasing info records to a linked SAP Catalog Content Management System (SAP CCM) via SAP NetWeaver XI. You can select the data to be transferred by material, vendor, purchasing organization, and receiving plant.

In addition to the selection criteria, you must enter a technical and language-independent name plus up to three language-dependent names for the catalog that is to be generated.

To generate multi-lingual catalogs, you can also enter several language keys. The system attempts to read the corresponding language-dependent long texts for the selected materials from the material master record.

A further input field is the price determination date. This field is prepopulated with the current date at the start of the transaction. By entering a different, future date, you cause the system to carry out a price determination process for the selected objects as at that date and then send the price thus calculated to the catalog system. In the event that conditions with scales exist, note that for contracts the standard release order quantity and for purchasing info records the standard PO quantity is used for price calculation purposes.

By setting the Test Run indicator, you can start the selection including price determination and check the result in a log without a transfer taking place.

The system transfers the following data:

· Material number

· Material/service group

· Price

· Order unit

· Planned delivery time

· Vendor number

· Contract number and contract item number

· Number of purchasing info record

· Purchasing organization

Prerequisites
Uploading and Downloading Catalogs
You make the technical settings for uploading and downloading catalog data in Customizing for Purchasing in the IMG activity Web Services: ID and Description. Here you can specify several catalogs. The catalog for which you set the default indicator is used in the transactions for purchase orders and requisitions.

Send Purchasing Data to a Catalog
To ensure correct processing of the data for Number of Purchasing Info Record and Purchasing Organization, it is necessary to add the following entries in SAP CCM:

· OCI: NEW_ITEM-PURCHINFREC

· OCI: NEW_ITEM-PURCHORG

Also ensure that the vendor from the ERP system has been defined as a business partner in SAP CCM.

Furthermore, you must make certain that the two new characteristics are present in the schemas of the main catalog and the purchasing catalog:


To enable the transfer of the data, the link to the ECC system must be entered in the connected XI system. The message interface used is CatalogueUpdateNotification_Out

pl. check the link follow for more info
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/46/b596e138a941ce9fba8fc8533674ee/frameset.htm

BR

Dinesh

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Former Member
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Hi Dinesh,

Thanks for the answer.

The branch in customizing (Materials Management -> Purchasing -> Environment Data -> Web Services: ID and Description) is not available on my 4.7 system. Also the transaction MECCM is not available.

What exactly do I need to activate/install for this functionality to be available?

Thanks.

j

yann_bouillut
Active Contributor
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Hi John,

I think i made a mistake : catalog was available in 4.7 for PM and PS only...

Purchasing catalog are available as of ECC60.

Kind regards,

Yann