e-sourcing

[Former Member]

hi,

Its Urgent. Can anyone tell me what is e-sourcing in SRM. Is it a separate component?. Please give me a brief info about e-sourcing. If you have any documents related to e-sourcing please forward it to my mail id scobby_1984@yahoo.co.in

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

eSourcing covers some scenarios in SRM for Bidding and Auctioning.

Have a look at following link for some infos:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/56/c34e3c59bfe747e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

Thanks,

Claudia

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Claudia,

Thanks for your reply. Please tell me whether Sourcing and E-Sourcing means the same. Then tell me whether E-Sourcing is a separate component or an add-on component for SRM.

Regards,

karthik

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

<b>Please refer to the following SAP OSS notes, which will answer most of your queries -></b>

Note 1010917 SRM E-Sourcing 4.2 SP4 Release and Info

Note 998201 E-Sourcing Enterprise SRM Java Server 4.2 SP3 Release & Info

Note 998099 E-Sourcing Enterprise plus Contracts 4.2 SP3 Release & Info

<b>Other related OSS Notes -></b>

Note 995238 FAQ's on Importing/Exporting functionality

Note 1005984 List of Standard Reports in SRM esourcing plus

Note 1004211 FAQ - Standard Scoring for RFx event

Note 994840 FAQ - Supplier Questions about the "Question" tab of RFx

Note 994416 FAQ - Supplier General Questions about RFX events

<u>Other related links -></u>

Hope this will definitely help.

Regards

- Atul

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Karthik,

Sourcing is the term within SRM used for the Sourcing Cockpit (Sourcing for Reqs)

e-Sourcing is not really the term used in the SAP area. e-Sourcing covers RFx Processing as well Auctioning, which are both Business Scenarios under the Sourcing umbrella.

In general Bidding is part of the SRM Server (Bid Invitation), Auctions are covered by an extra component.

With SRM 6.0 e-Sourcing is covered by elements of frictionless sourcing, why there is documentation out there with naming e-sourcing. It depend on the version

you are talking about.

Thanks,

Claudia

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Claudia,

Thank u very much for your reply.

please tell me whther e-sourcing comes as an seperate component for SRM 5.0 or as an add-on component. please send me also an supporting document for that.

Regards,

Karthik

[yann_bouillut · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Sourcing (bidding engine) is part of SRM.

Live Auction has to be installed (java component)

Kind regards,

Yann

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Karthik,

addon: e-Sourcing is the software piece coming from Frictionless, which was

bought by SAP. The current product is an additional component but only offers

integration into SAP by file and XI.

In the SRM 7.0 release the bidding engine and the Frictionless tools will be merged

to a new product covering all functions. In the mean time there is the choice

using the Bidding Engine (part of SRM Server) or use the Frictionless eSourcing

ondemand (hosted) solution.

Thanks,

Claudia

[Former Member]

Guys,

E-sourcing and SRM merger in SRM7.0 is an expected event. Till now it was a hosted solution and SAP started selling this without hosting. The integration with R/3 is now under ramp-up for contracts. There might be some integration possibility with SRM also by SAP for the contracts transfer from e-sourcing.

It is not an add on. There are some integration issues with that.

Regards,

DV Rao

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thank you Claudia and Rao.

Can you send me any links or documents to show that E-Sourcing can be or cannot be had as an add-on component of SRM 5.0. It will be more helpful to me.

Regards,

Karthik