ECC integration question – supplier updates

[former_member235589]

1.   1.    In Sourcing OnDemand, when a Supplier makes a change to their company information (address, company name, etc.), the update is approved by a user with authorization to process the modification.

a.    How is this modification or update sent to our ECC system? We cannot locate information on how this update or a file would be generated with any updates.

2.   2.    Same question in reverse,

a.      If a modification is made in our ECC system to a vendor, how is that information sent back to Sourcing to update the vendor record?

b.      When a change request comes from ECC does it also trigger a modification confirmation or is the update simply made to the vendor record?

[Former Member]

1 a. How is this modification or update sent to our ECC system? We cannot locate information on how this update or a file would be generated with any updates.

     The changes need to be manually sent to ECC system. There should be a "publish Supplier" button on the Business systems tab (assuming you are  on Sourcing 8.0 and above). Clicking the button will trigger an XML message to be sent to the ECC system which will then updtate the vendor record in ECC.

2 a)If a modification is made in our ECC system to a vendor, how is that information sent back to Sourcing to update the vendor record?

    Vendor records are sent to sourcing by way of the IDOC's. If you have change pointers enabled on the IDOC, the ECC system can be configured to push the changed vendor to the sourcing system.

2 b)When a change request comes from ECC does it also trigger a modification confirmation or is the update simply made to the vendor record?

     The vendor record is directly updated, (in the business system tab )

[Karsten_Haubold]

Hi,

just a few comments on this:

1 a) You have to implement the interface from Sourcing to ECC via PI, where Sourcing creates an XML that is mapped in PI to a CREMAS IDoc. This IDoc cretaes or updates the vendor in ECC.

2 a) If you have replicated the vendors from ECC to Sourcing (just other way round as in 1a)  then the change pointer is activated for this vendor and any changes are transferred automatically from ECC to Sourcing.

Kind regards

Karsten

[Former Member]

Hi,

please follow the e-sourcing on demand solution wave9 sap document for integrating sap erp to e-sourcing via SAP PI.

from ECC, you can send material and vendors to e-sourcing and you can create the master agreements and send it back to sap ECC system.

Thanks and Regards,

Krushi.