About replication& datatransfer in sap srm.

Hi dear friends, In srm is't required ,Both Replication (meterial/vendor ) and Data transfer . And pl tell me the difference b/w above.
thanks&regards
sairam

The question is not clear
but still
In SRM
you can replicate materials from backend
and create locally as well
and both of these can be used for shopping or sourcing
Similarly vendors can be downloaded from backend or created locally.
External business partners are created in SRM for both of these.
You can link them to backend vendors.
For material & others (cust + bus objects) download, SRM uses CRM middleware since filtering and other enhancements are required.
For vendor download there is a straight TXN of BBPGETVD
BR
Dinesh

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In depth information about SAP SRM

Hi,
i was wondering if there is a source or may somebody personally who can answer me some general questions about sap SRM, which go beyon the 10 page 40000feet-white paper of SAP.
- what is the main difference between MM and SRM
- how difficult is the migration/upgrade to SRM having a MM in place
- what standard purchasing processes are provided by SAP SRM
Thanks for your feedback
Torsten

Hi Torsten,
Indeed, it's quite complicated to answer your questions in some sentences.
Please check the available document sources, maybe you can help yourselves:
If you have an access to the service marketplace, see the note 1026369 for useful links. If not, see the following links (for some of them regisered user is needed):
- The online help is available at http://help.sap.com -> SAP Business Suite -> SAP Supplier Relationship Mgmt. or http://help.sap.com/content/documentation/erp/docu_sbs_erpsrm.htm
- Integrated Business Content: https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/ibc ;
- Installation And Upgrade Documentation: http://service.sap.com/instguides
mySAP Business Suite Applications -> mySAP SRM -> mySAP SRM Server 5.0
Download MasterGuide and scenario-specific instructions.
Follow this link for detailed understanding of srm business process.
- Installation and upgrade information is available at http://service.sap.com/srm-inst
- wiki: https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SRM This is good starting point.
- Integrated Business Content for SRM is available at http://service.sap.com/ibc-srm
- SAP Best Practices are available at http://service.sap.com/bestpractices
- General product information about SRM is available on the SAP home page: http://www.sap.com/solutions/business-suite/srm/index.epx
Kind regards,
Peter

Why SAP SRM material replication happens through CRM middleware?

Can some one help me to understand, Why SAP SRM material replication happens through CRM middleware? Is there any functional/Technical reason behind this design?

Dear Sridhar,
SRM releases later SRM 4.0 are working with the same middleware implementation,
there where no changes between the releases. The SRM middleware implementation
was decoupled from the CRM middleware development at that time.
(Middleware is based on the basis functionality of queued Remote Function Calls qRFC)
Regards
Laszlo

HI, I WANT TO KNOW DETAILS SYLLABOUS OR ROOT MAP ABOUT SAP- SRM WORK FLOW

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SAP-MM

Hi,
Please visit the below link for general SRM
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/8d/f6a93e08503614e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
For SRM Organisation structure
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/b4/9de8cc7d4b11d2b423006094b92d37/frameset.htm
For Workflow
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/b4/9de8cc7d4b11d2b423006094b92d37/frameset.htm
Cheers!!!
NMK

Replication of HR org structure to SAP SRM

Hi,
Please let me know the step to Replicate the HR org structure to SAP SRM.
Thanks,
Manu

Manu,
Refer the below link the same is applicable for SRM as well.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/30139fb0-360c-2a10-1e9f-9d5417754983
Best Regards,
NMK

Approver not determined process controlled workflow in SAP SRM 7.0

Hello all,
I have setup process controlled workflow in SAP SRM 7.0 EHP3 for shopping cart approval.
I have 4 approval levels.
I have used item-based Decision for entire document because for some items i want system approval.
In implementation of BADI /SAPSRM/BD_WF_RESP_RESOLVER, in the method /SAPSRM/IF_EX_WF_RESP_RESOLVER~GET_AREA_TO_ITEM_MAP, i am skipping the items for which i want system approval.
Also in method /SAPSRM/IF_EX_WF_RESP_RESOLVER~GET_APPROVERS_BY_AREA_GUID of BADI implementation class, i am keeping the approver table empty for the step which i want system approval.
For example i have 1 item in shopping cart and for 1st step, based on some accouting criteria, i want system approval for 1st level and the workitem should go directly to 2 approval step when shopping cart is ordered. This is not happening.
But if i have multiple items, and one item should have system approval based on some criteria and the 1st approval level should be system approval and other item should go to the 1st approver. This is happening and showing 'system' approver for item1 and 'appr_xyz' for item 2.
For shopping cart having only 1 item, If i approve the shopping cart in this state only, it doesn't go to any approver and is not usable.
am i missing anything in BADI /SAPSRM/BD_WF_RESP_RESOLVER??
Please let me know.
Regards,
Yayati Ekbote

Hi Adrian,
Yes it is possible to display custom workflows in the Universal Worklist, However, I am not sure what you are trying to do with a routing table. If the workitems are of type decision, you can use UserDecisionHandler (action handler) configured in the XML file to use the Approve/Reject functionality - we are talking about webflow connector here correct? R/3 connector?
Regards,
Beth Maben
EP - Senior Support Consultant II
SAP Active Global Support
Global Support Centre Ireland
**SDN Forum Moderator:
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**SDN Universal Worklist Wiki:
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/x/ehU

Integrating with SAP SRM 4.0

Hi all,
I'm currently involved in an e-procurement project that will have to integrate SAP SRM 4.0 with the EAI solution of our company (webMethods).
As I don't know much about SRM 4.0 technology, I'd like to know the standard way of integration with SRM 4.0:
- Is SRM 4.0 capable of exposing IDocs?
- Is SRM 4.0 capable of invoking BAPIs?
- If so, how can a Purchase Order put into the arguments of the BAPI?
- Is SRM 4.0 compelled to talk with XML messages (particularly SOAP XI) or are IDocs and BAPIs a suitable solution?
- Is SRM 4.0 standard output xCBL?
- Can SRM 4.0 expose and invoke Web Services natively?
In other words, I'd like to know whether we are obliged to use the XI Content of SRM 4.0 in order to integrate with webMethods. We have already done integration with R/3 4.6 and we used IDocs with the SAP Adapter. We would like to capitalize on our previous experience and save us from having to assess the feasibility of an integration with SRM via XI.
Thank you in advance for all your answers.
Regards,
/ML

Hi Marcel,
Underlying technology is WAS (Web Application Server) which is an enhanced version of the middleware BASIS technology used by 46C. XI is a replacement for messaging platforms like webmethods, so if you are using webmethods with SAP adaptor you don't need to use XI because you are already using a messaging platform. Only reason you may want to use XI would be if you can build upon the XI content available to you. If you are not interested in the XI content then go ahead and use webmethods using SAP adaptor to connect to SRM. I don't see any problem in that.
Regards,
Sanjeev

SAP SRM Prod with Oracle DB and AIX 5.3 Performance Issue.

Hi Basis Gurus,
Today my SAP PRD system all of a sudden was running slow and users had difficulties executing TCodes as it took minutes before the screen appeared.My system is SAP SRM 4.00, Oracle Release 11.2.0.1.0 and AIX 5.3.
From Basis point of view , we noticed that all the work process were hanged due to RFCs' occupying it.Couldnt investigate further on the system as we needed to restart asap because users needed to log on. A quick check on SICK shows no errors.What we managed to find out is that we needed to check this parameter below and set it accordingly:-
rdisp/rfc_min_wait_dia_wp:-
Definition
Number of work processes kept free for other users.
Use
This parameter is used to reserve a number of dialog work processes for dialog mode. It prevents parallel RFCs from occupying all the processes.
The parameter rdisp/wp_no_dia specifies the absolute number of dialog work processes.
Unit: number of dialog work processes
Default value: 1
Example
If 10 dialog work processes are configured for the instance (rdisp/wp_no_dia = 10) and the parameter rdisp/rfc_min_wait_dia_wp = 3 is set, parallel RFCs can occupy a maximun of 7 dialog work processes. Three dialog work processes always remain free for dialog mode.
There are 20 DIA processes in our system, perhaps reserving a minimum of about 5 work processes for DIA users will be useful via the parameter.
So my first question would be is there any other suggestions besides adjusting the mentioned parameter above in order to ensure that no work processors going into hang state due to RFCs' occupying it as this issue always happens at the end of the month only when there are massive users accessing it.
When we went for a restart of the system we encountered another issue. Steps to the issue are as below:-
1) Did a proper shutdown of Oracle and SAP.
2) When we start using startsap script, it doesn't start DB so we started DB manually but listener was having problem
    so we stopped all.
3) We also did a cleanipc, it too throws below error:-
sidadm> cleanipc <systemno> remove
               exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program cleanipc because of the following errors:
               0509-130 Symbol resolution failed for cleanipc because:
               0509-136   Symbol memmove (number 106) is not exported from
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               0509-192 Examine .loader section symbols with the
               'dump -Tv' command.
4) Also the Listener file has no contents,it's null file.
5) This is another error :-
    exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program /oracle/sid/112_64/bin/tnslsnr because of the following errors:
    0509-150   Dependent module /oracle/sid/112_64/lib/libttsh11.so could not be loaded.
    0509-101   The module has too many section headers
    or the file is damaged
The libttsh11.so file was empty dated 25th timestamp as below in PRD:-
-rw-rr    1 sid   dba               0 Nov 25 07:12 libttsh11.so
Further checking has let me to understand this is an Oracle Bug from this link:-
http://gavinsoorma.com/2009/12/11-1-0-6-clusterware-upgrade-to-11-1-0-7/
This Oracle bug only happens in an Upgrade time and how could this happen to my Production system during a restart process.
Also this system was restarted during the last weekend's maintainance window and it came up with no issues.
6) We copied over the libttsh11.so from our QA environment to PRD and did a Startup:-
-rwxr-x---    1 sid   dba        65967496 Nov 25 07:40 libttsh11.so (This is the copied over file from QA)
7) After Startup everything has been in order till now.
My second question is what went wrong with the libttsh11.so file. How could it be 0 size in PRD when no signs of changes had happen to the PRD system. Is this a proven Oracle Bug or something else since I have never encountered anything like this before. Hope all the Gurus here could shed some light into my 2 questions as I am looking for positive answers.
Thank you.
Regards,
John

Hi,
Firstly I would suggest you to upgrade your database from Oracle Release 11.2.0.1.0 to Oracle Release 11.2.0.2 . This is the recommended Oracle 11g database version for SAP solutions. Many of your problem will get resolved with it.
Question 1:
So my first question would be is there any other suggestions besides adjusting the mentioned parameter above in order to ensure that no work processors going into hang state due to RFCs' occupying it as this issue always happens at the end of the month only when there are massive users accessing it.
For immediate resolution the approach you have followed is correct viz limiting number of dialog processes for RFC. Secondly you need to analyze why RFC processing takes so much time. You need check which programs are getting executed by those RFC.
Generate EarlyWatch report for more detailed view
Question 2:
My second question is what went wrong with the libttsh11.so file. How could it be 0 size in PRD when no signs of changes had happen to the PRD system. Is this a proven Oracle Bug or something else since I have never encountered anything like this before.
The libttsh11.so library cannot be found in the related directory.
Cause
The file system is mounted using CIO option, but per Note 257338.1 Direct I/O (DIO) and Concurrent I/O (CIO) on AIX 5L, an ORACLE_HOME on a filesystem mounted with "cio" option is not supported.
Such a configuration will cause, installation, relinking and other unexpected problems.
Solution
Disable the CIO option on the filesystem.
References
NOTE:257338.1 - Direct I/O (DIO) and Concurrent I/O (CIO) on AIX 5L
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Deepak Kori

Establishing a connection between SAP SRM and MM

Dear All,
I am working for a multi-national company and now we are thinking to implement SAP SRM but I have some questions about communication between SAP MM and SRM. Firstly I want so share with you our as-is status and then my doubts and question that I have.
In our case we have two different locationed organizations which are using different version of SAP system and SAP MM. In this two sap system mostly codes are and descriptions are different for all materials and now we want gather all data and we want to have one global code system and (local code also will remain). I mean we want to call same materials with one global unique code instead of two different codes. We are thinking to implement something like coding center that will take local master data from local organization then will assign global code, update table then with somehow will update SAP SRM.
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Regarding to tool I have some questions:
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2)     Is there any standart batch file (BI or BAPI) to be able to perform this.Is it possible to develop tool using excel or access etc. which will manage coding task.
3)     When we are trasferring for the first time Master Data from MM to SRM is there any standard transaction?
4)     how the two MD are aligned (i.e. what if a new item is created or modified on MM)?
5)     standard program (transaction) for aligning available ?
6)     ) how this process can be triggered (scheduled using SAP scheduler, event or user driven)
7)     Where the translator (tool) should be (R/3 local, SRM, BW, other) --> Enrichment table
8)     How we can build the communication transaction?
Thank you very much
Any comments and answers will appreciated and rewarded
Regards,

Hi,
Have you considered using CCM. You generally use an industry standard code (perhaps UNSPSC) in CCM as your vendors would all have different number (similar to your scenario). CCM is a plug-in to SRM, supplied by SAP.
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The only thing that needs to be thought through is how you feed the selected catalogue item back to the differing R3 systems, but this shouldn't be a stumbling point.
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Why in the SAP SRM books inforecord is not a source of supply in classic

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i have read many SAP Press books and materials but no where officially mentioned INFORECORD as source of supply but we could use INFORECORD as source of supply in the classic. Why SAP did not agree inforecord is a valid source of supply in any of the officical books.What could have stopped to write this point.Dfinetly some good meaning is there. Why SAP SRM definitions are missing.
for eg.by martin murray and srm materials.etc..
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br
muthu

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Hello SCN Community,
It would be much appreciated if somebody could share some information about the following....
What is the best approach to create TBOM's for a SAP SRM system? The SRM functionality is basically consisting out of multiple ABAP Web Dynpro's that are connected as a process via a SAP Portal (as is understand it). The entrypint to the SRM functionality is via the SAP Portal.
Do I first have to create a link to the Portal via an SAP Web Application link in SOLAR01 and then start recording? Will it record only the portal objects or also the ABAP Web Dynpro objects?
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Hi!
I would like to monitor SAP SRM 5.0 (OS: Windows, DB: SAP DB, Version 7.6.04.11) from SAP Solution Manager.
I have the following problems:
a) it is not posible to execute the tocde DB50 on SAP SRM.
b) it is not possible to see the DB monitor of SAP SRM in SAP Solution
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c)The database is integrated in tcode DB59.
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General Connection Data
Connection Name....: SRM
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tp Profiles........: no_longer_used
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3. Determine status using TCP/IP connection SAPDB_DBM_DAEMON (DBMRFC
session mode)
4. Test the SQL connection (Native SQL at CON_NAME)
Application Server: olda8002_SRM_00 (Windows NT)
1. Connect. test with "dbmcli db_state"
Successful
2. Connect. test with command mode "dbmrfc db_state"
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DBMRFC Function     : DBM_EXECUTE
Command             : db_state
Error               : System Error
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'ThSAPCMRCV' : cmRc=20 thRc=456#Timeout during connection setup
3. Connect. test with session mode "dbmrfc db_state"
Unsuccessful
communication_failure
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   DBMRFC Function     : DBM_CONNECT
   Error               : Communication Error
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Successful
What I have done:
I have upgraded the server as well the client software to the version 7.6.04.11
Can someone help me with suggestion?
Could it be the issue with independent path on windows or do I miss some programs?
In tcode DB59 in Connection test the following values could not be determined:
DBMRFC Release (empty)
DBMCLI Release (empty)
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regards
Thom

Hello Thom,
"a) it is not possible to execute the tocde DB50 on SAP SRM."
-> Run /ndb50n with the database connection SRM created in /ndb59.
     Please give more details about errors.
"b) it is not possible to see the DB monitor of SAP SRM in SAP Solution
(SAP CCMS Monitor Templates --> Database --> empty)"
-> First fix the database connection in /ndb59.
    Please let me know the version/SP of the SAP Basis on SAP Solution Manager system.
"c)The database is integrated in tcode DB59."??
You posted that you created the database connection for the database.
On the application server < Application Server: olda8002_SRM_00 > run ::
/nsm49 ->dbmrfc -> execute -> post results
/nsm59 -> SRM connection -> test connection ->
1) What are DBSL Release/DBSL Patch on the appl. Server?
2) Update with output from the /nsm49 -> dbmcli tool ::
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4) Test TCP/IP connections in /nsm59::
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< According your information the test connection in /ndb59 failed for :
    Determine status using TCP/IP connection SAPDB_DBM (DBMRFC
command mode)
   & Determine status using TCP/IP connection SAPDB_DBM_DAEMON (DBMRFC
session mode) >
   Run /ndb59 -> Connection test -> select the appl. Server -> Connection test
=> /nst11 && check errors in dev_rd at the end.
    /nsm21 -> check the system errors.
    /nst11 -> check the errors in the corresponding dev log of WP.
   Do you have blank space in the IndepProgPath path name?
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SAP SRM - Purchasing Org Structure

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Pls can anybody let me know, how do we assign a user as a buyer to more than one purchasing group.
I had used to the attribute "Is Purchaser of" to assign the position of the user to one purchasing group. but
I could not assign to more than one purchasing group. Even If I do the assignment , system deletes the old assignment.
We have HR integartion of employees into the SRM Org, So I cannot assign a user under the purchasing group through staff assignment view.
Right now we are controlling through authrizations, though which during sourcing, shopping carts pertaining to the purchasing group alone is getting displayed. But this has limitations, during direct pruchaser order creation, the default attributes are that of the user and not of the purchasing group.
Hope I had conveyed the issue, pls help me on the solutioning part..
Regards
harish

Hi Mei,
Thanks for the answers,
As you say, I think we need to have doc change badi implemented for PO to determine the right attributes.
But the point is, if the same user happens to be a purchaser of two P.Organizations
say germany and US, the attributes right from currency till locations and everything vary.
For this I thought of creating 2 additionals positions apart from the base position of the user and use "Is purchaser of" attribute to assign those positions under the respective purchasing organization.
Pls confirm If my thinking and approach are the right , as I am not too sure about it.
And why SAP SRM has not provided the functionailty as standard as these sought of scenario's are so common.
Regards
Harish

Enterprise structure in SAP SRM

Hi,
I am new to SAP SRM. I would like to know where do we set the enterprise structure (Creating & assigning organisational elements like Company code, Plants, Purchase Organisation & so on) in SAP SRM like the way we do in R/3?
I tried searching in SRM Wiki, but couldn't locate. Please help.
Thanks in advance,
Murthy

Use PPOMA_BBP for creation of or structure, assignment of attributes etc....
Use BBPGETVD for vendor master replication
Use R3AS for material master replication
use FM for location(plant) replication
thanks and regards
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