Integrate 'External non-SAP Purchasing Application' with SAP SD for third party purchasing/ drop shipping?

[former_member403472]

What is the best way to integrate 'External non-SAP Purchasing Application' with SAP SD for third party purchasing/ drop shipping?

Details about expected process Flow.

Receive PO from customer into SAP > SAP SD creates Sales Order > ?? SAP Integrate with External non-SAP Purchasing Application to trigger purchasing > External non-SAP Purchasing Application creates PO, Ships Material to Customer Ship to address (drop ship), Sends Shipping confirmation (FCR) & Invoices to SAP> ??Receive FCR and Invoice in SAP > ?? Initiate SAP Accounts Payable (Vendor Payments) and Accounts Receivable (Customer Invoice) > ?? Update SAP SD Sales Order with shipping status>

Questions we need to answer;

  - How to achieve '??' steps from above process.

  - What type of Master Data we will need to configure (Say Materials Item Category, Type etc.)

  - Any standards options to configure SAP SD (Type of Sales Order)

  - We certainly don’t want to trigger SAP MM Purchasing (i.e. PR, PO etc.). How can we bypass it.

  - How to make statistical receipts against sales order line items so that SO status will be updated.

  - How to receive Invoice and FCR from External non-SAP app to trigger AP and AR transactions.

  - Are there any SAP standard configurations/ BAPIs/ BADIs available to achieve this integration.

Any inputs on above questions are appreciable.

Anand.

[former_member403472 · Accepted solution]

This question is resolved. We ended up activating purchasing module and used purchasing documents PR/ PO to integrate with third party purchasing system.

Anand.