Sus usage

Question

Dear sap gurus,
We are in srm 7 ehp 2 with ecc 6 ehp 5 and we're planning to use classic scenario with sus.
In srm, we plan to use rfx as well. So my question is if we also use sus, does it mean that our cendor need to logon to srm system to respond to rfx and auction, but to create po response and creating asn or confirmation, they need to logon to other system which is sus? Or if we use sus, then the function for responding to rfx and auction now moved to sus as well?
Please enlight me on this matter
John

Answer 1

Hello John,
As mentioned by Nikhil from SRM 701 onwards bidding can be done on SUS system instead of SRM system and the scenario is termed Sourcing with Bid-Decoupling. Here the Bid will be replicated to the external system i.e. SUS system and the bidders have to login to SUS to participate in the bidding processes.
But you can very well use the Normal sourcing scenario as well where the bidders will login to the same system.
Only difference is the Internal/External system selection for the bidding process.
You can refer the config guides for the same at the below mentioned location,
Goto URL http://service.sap.com/srm-inst and then navigate to SAP SRM --> SAP SRM Server 7.01 -> Configuration Guides for SAP SRM 7.01
Hope this helps you.
Best Regards,
Rahul