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Is SRM 6.0 (SRM 2007) released for non-ramp up customers?

Former Member
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Hi Guys,

Anyone knows if SRM 6.0 is now available on the market for non-ramp up customers? If not any ideas when it will be ready?

Thanks

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Former Member
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Hi Emma,

have a look at:

https://websmp102.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000692229&;

Target Release to customer: Q4, 2007

Target Completion date Ramp-Up: Q1, 2008

regards

stefan

yann_bouillut
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Hi,

In adition to this dates, here is the official letter :

"PUBLIC Information about SRM 6.0

This note is intended to help the SAP field answer customer inquiries concerning the delayed shipment of SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) release 6.0.

Reasons for the delay

SAP SRM 6.0 is a big step forward for SRM: SRM 6.0 is the first SAP software to rely on the new user interface technology WebDynpro and the Web Application Server, rather than the previous ITS. It is also based on the completely new business rule framework (BRF) to define approval workflows. These changes are intended to improve usability and simplify workflow administration / customization, leading to better acceptance and lower TCO for our customers. However, the move to these new technologies is also a complex change and as a result, the product has experienced delays.

With our most recent development milestone - service pack 2 in mid-July 2007 - we have made lots of progress towards completion; however, we estimated that the product was still not yet ready for Ramp-Up. As a result, we decided to release the product only in beta shipment and to a very limited set of customers (14 in total) who are being closely monitored by our development organization. Seven of these customers are actually planning to go live on the current beta shipment.

Based on the progress made so far with Service Pack 2, we feel that we should be able to start the official Ramp-Up process on December 10th, 2007 - the target ship date for Service Pack 03. By that time, we should already have 3+ live customers, so new customers starting their projects will benefit from the experiences acquired from previous implementations.

Time plan and Recommendations

1. Ideally, we recommend that new and upgrade SRM customers wait for the start of Ramp-Up for SRM 6.0 SP03 (Dec 10th, 2007) rather than starting a project with the previous release SRM 5.0. SRM 6.0 offers many benefits compared to SRM 5.0 and should be easier to use + maintain. An Online scoping questionnaire will be available from mid October in the SAP Service Marketplace as usual.

2. The number of Beta shipment customers is strictly limited and therefore we do not intend to ship Service Pack 2 to any additional customers besides the 14 customers currently in Beta.

3. Implementation partners can request a demo license of the current support package 2 in the partner portal. They can set up their sandbox systems and familiarize with the new technology upfront before they enter into customer projects from Dec. 10.

Should you have any further questions please contact your local SAP account executive

"

Kind regards,

Yann

Former Member
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Hi Yann,

do you know if it will be WebDynpro for ABAP or JAVA?

regards

stefan

yann_bouillut
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Hi,

Abap except for SUS

Kind regards,

Yann

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yann_bouillut
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Hi,

Also please note that the target date is not a final date... could be delayed...

Kind regards,

Yann

Former Member
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Hi,

We are on ramp-up of SRM 6.0. Dec 10th is the date we are looking for SP03. GA version would be in Q1 2008.

ABAP Webdynpro. There is a netweaver stack restriction and the Portal service pack restriction on each service pack of SRM 6.0 SUS still remains on BSP. EP is mandatory. For Ramp up customers SRM-MDM catalog is mandatory.

Work flow is on BRF with different process steps. This is configurable. Still for complex workflows, there is Badi to be called from the expressions.

DV