Accessing OCI Catalog without log in to SRM

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Would it be possible to enable our users to shop directly in external OCI catalog by passing SRM (Transparent Authentication).  And, once the shopping cart is ready it will be transfered to SRM.

Thanks.

[jason_boggans · Accepted solution]

Your problem will be in session creation, generally when punching out from SRM, the SUSPEND  mode is active until such time as the shopping is completed in the catalog in which case the session is returned to SRM using the RESUME plug. In your case do you want to do something like access a catalog directly, shop, create the basket, take the OCI data and maintain it in the sc_item_data structures and then pass this through something like the BBP_PD_SC_CREATE_EXTERNAL function?

It can be done but the question is why? If you are going back to SRM with the data, why not initiate it also from SRM?

Regards,

Jason

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you Jason for your thoughtful reply.

Yes we want to access the external catalog directly, shop, create the basket, take the OCI data back to SRM.  This to provide our internal users an quick access to have amazon like experience and avoid multiple screens and clicks in SRM.  we are interested in a very quick solution with minimum development, if any.  by the way there will be no user IDs created in the external catalog as authentication will be facilitated by SRM or our network Active directory.

Regards,

Saad

[Yateesh_h · Accepted solution]

Hi Saad,

Please have a look at this alternate option - SAP SRM User Interface Add-On. This gives the casual users an online shopping (amazon.com) experience.

https://websmp101.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/011000358700000665892012E.pdf

Hope this helps

Regards,

Yateesh Hoblidar

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Yateesh,

Thanks for sharing this interesting SAP presentaion.  Our requirement is for a 3rd party OCI catalog that we already in process to deploy.

Regards,

Saad

[former_member216093 · Accepted solution]

Hi Saad,

It is quite interesting, I am just imagining the solution with the following steps.

1) User calls the 3rd party catalog using browser with the userid & password (for OCI interface), the hook URL is defaulted on this call to SAP PI. Each user has different ID, which can identify user in SRM.

2) User complete the shopping and return the SC data, on hook URL, which goes to SAP PI in XML format.

3) SAP PI sends this data to SRM to create the SC and save the SC for the user to login and complete shopping.

I have not worked on the details but you can use this as basis to start architecting your solution. Some links are:

https://scn.sap.com/message/1639890

Regards,

Ravi