Problems with Punch-Out Catalogs

[Former Member]

Hi to everybody,

I need help: I've to manage the possibility, in SAP SRM, of ordering materials from internal and punch-out catalogs (present on the supplier site). Is XI necessary? Always? Today they use Aryba buyer to manage punch-out and use cXML standard for the supplier site: is this standard ok even for SAP SRM?

Thank you,

Daniela

Edited by: Daniela Dragone on Jan 24, 2008 5:22 PM

[Former Member]

Hi Daniela,

I'm not sure whether you are referring to your client/company using ariba buyer or the supplier.

XI (or PI as it's called now) is not necessary for opening a punchout catalog and getting a shopping cart to SRM, however SAP manages punchout using its own OCI standard. So no cXML can be used for that process. Ask your supplier if they support the OCI standard as well.

The next part is the ordering of those items, again XI is not necessary if you send the order by email to the supplier. If you want to use XML based ordering XI IS necessary. Again SAP has a SAP XML message for ordering (called PurchaseOrderRequest), but with a mapping (which you have to develop yourself or buy from a specialised company) you can send XML messages in virtually any kind of XML standard to the supplier (including cXML).

Regards,

Robin

[Former Member]

Thank you really much.....I'm continuing to search all the answers for my problem but I received a really good help from you.

Thank you,

Daniela

[Former Member]

Daniela,

We are on older version of SRM (EBP 4.0) and we use internal and external catalogs with out XI. I believe XI is mainly used as middleware to import internal catalogs.

- Suren

[Former Member]

Hi

Please go through the pointers below ->

There are some preconfigured mappings available for SRM in www.service.sap.com.

https://websmp106.sap-ag.de/swdc

Search for all Categories

- XI CONTENT SRM

Other useful links ->

Hope this answer all your queries. Do let me know.

Regards

- Atul

[Former Member]

Hi Atul,

thank you for your support. Unlukily I didn't find my answers.......(I also have not authorizations for the first link you sent me ), so I don't know if I need XI to read punch-out catalogs (with cXML standard) from SAP SRM, or if I can avoid it......

[Former Member]

Hi

Unfortunately, for the 1st link, you require SAP OSS Id (userid/password).. Ask you colleagues to help you out here..

Also go through the standard CXML website ->

http://cxml.org/

Regards

- Atul