Internal Catalog

[Former Member]

Hi,

Do you know whether Catalog Management can provide a functionality called Internal Catalog which is a catalog of items manufactured by the company itself. The internal user can then order a product from internal catalog and use it personally.

My initial thought is that the following functinality is available as you can set a catalog with your own product. All we need to do is to set the employee as a vendor and the process will work as normal.

So I just need a confirmation if my thought is correct or is there another solution in SRM?

Regards.

[Former Member]

Hi,

<b>To create Internal Catalog-</b>

Well, the master catalog is a procurement catalog. Meaning you can also use it to find products, select from it and use those in your shopping cart. However you can only have one master in which you store all the products from the supplier catalogs (when these have been mapped).

It is a choice you have to make whether you want to use just the master catalog (and its category structure) or employ several procurement catalogs besides the master (in which you can have another structure).

The Master Catalog in CCM is never manually created by an administrator, the catalog is generated upon entering the CDC (Catalog Design Center) {Edit Catalogs}

Providing the CCM system has been initialized using the report /ccm/initialize_cme the catalog will be automatically generated as described above, even if deleted upon next entry to the CDC a new Master will be created again

<b>You can use following pointers and links -></b>

https://websmp105.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700003992672005E/Config_Guide_CCM200_640doc.pdf

or

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/e5/f5e938b4ece075e10000000a114084/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/01/2ee339a327f136e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

Hope this will help. Do let me know.

Regards

- Atul

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for the answer, I am actually would like to know what is the purpose of providing an internal catalog (displaying your own product that you are manufactured).

What processes can be supported with this internal catalog?

Regards