Contract is an agreement with vendor/supplier for a period of time, where in goods/services will be delivered/rendered, when a PO will be issued with referencing an existing contract in SAP...
Its depends on the business requirements, whether contracts has to be pulled from SRM to CCM or not...
So CCM is not just transferring contracts/product masters into CCM. Within CCM you can create your own catalogs and much related to catalog management...
Only if you explicitely set up contract distribution to SAP CCM or initiate the program for distributing product master data to SAP CCM will you require XI. Configuration is necessary to allow for contract dist. (places a check box 'Distribute contract to catalog' ) - if this is not selected then nothing else triggers the distribution to CCM. Same goes for product master data, unless report BBP_CCM_TRANSFER_CATALOG is run then product data will not be transferred.
Other requirements of XI are also the use of XML files as already mentioned. If XML in any format is used for upload, XI is mandatory.
" If you want to upload data in a format other than CSV format, you have specified an RFC destination for SAP Exchange Infrastructure in Customizing for SAP Catalog Content Management by choosing SAP Catalog Authoring Tool → Specify Settings for Updating Catalogs. "
As per this documentation I infer that if I upload the catalogs in CSV format then usage of PI is not compulsory right?
XI integration is mandatory only if you upload the catalog files in XML format and if you want to transfer product master data or contracts from SRM to CCM.
Else if you have catalog files in .CSV format and no product master/contract uploads to CCM, XI is not mandatory.
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