Contact person (Bidder)

Hello,
Can a bidder be linked to multiple vendors?
regards,
joseph

Only if he/she has different user accounts (SU01) and BP number (BP) to represent (and associated with) a contact person for each vendor. Otherwise, it doesn't make sense.

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CREATE BIDDER MAIL CONTENT TO BE EDITED -SENTAFTER CONTACT PERSON CREATION

I need to change the content of the mail (containing user-id) which is sent after creation of a contact person in create bidder tab.
please tell me how to do it.

Hi,
Transaction : SE61
Document class : General text
Document name : PARTNER REQUEST ACCEPTED
You can modify the mail text here.
Regards,
Nikhil

Re-assign a contact person BP from one bidder org BP to another

Hi forum members,
We have a situattion where we would like the ability to transfer a bidder contact person BP from one bidder org BP to another by means of an ABAP program.
This will prevent us having to block the old contact person and create the same one on a new bidder org.
Has anyone tried this successfully?
Thanks,
Nick

Pradhip:
I am not sure about that line - but contact persons are replicable with the correct middleware configuration.
regards,
bill.

Contact Person of the Bidder

Hi Friends ,
We are configuring SRM7.0 with ECC6 ( Ehp4) having Classic Scenario.
I'm testing the RFx scenarion ...but currently Mail serever (SMTP) is not configured ...so can not test end-to-end scenarion..like actual...so set the checkbox 'Permit Surrogate Bidding" in BP master of Bidder
1) Can anyone please confirm me, whether "Contact Person" of the Bidder is ALWAYS REQUIERED for submitting the RFx Response by Bidder ? Just Bidder can not submit the RFx Response ...(What my thought is ...its req only in case of Surrogate Bidding ?)
2) Without Surrogate Bidding , can I submit the RFx Response by login as a Bidder (or Bidders Contact Person..SU01 id is created when Contact person created....) ...in the Bidding Engine and access the published bid ?....I tried the below URL from the RFx Notification..but once click on the URL, system gives error "Access via 'NULL' object reference not possible." ....
Thanks in advance.
Regards
NAP

Hi Ramki,
Thanks , but your reply is contradicts to other 2 guys, Nikil and Jay in terms of Surrogate Bidding ...
Nikhil:
"But if you wish to proceed with surrogate bidding, then there is no need to create a contact person. The Purchaser can collect the bid offline from the bidder and submit it himself."
Jay :
"So I guess the answer to your question is - YES, the Bidder has to have Contact Person in order to submit bids, not only in Surrogate Bidding case."
Confusing for me with this contradiction.
Logicaliiy I think Nikhil & Jay is corrcet.
Can you/anyone have afurther opinion...debate
Thanks
Regards
NAP

Contact persons of a bidder in a bid invitation

Hi all,
If I pass the bid invitation guid or bid invitation number to the function module BBP_PD_BID_GETDETAIL, the business partners are obtained in th table E_PARTNER table. In this table I am not able to recognise which are the bidders added to the bid invitation and the default contact persons of the corresponding bidder assigned in the bid invitation. Is there any way to find the rleation between the bidder and the contact persons of the bidder? If i know a contact person can i find the bidder of the contact person? Could any one suggest me on this.
Regards,
Asha

I think you can find this relationship in the Table BUT050.
The field Partner1 is the Company (Bidder), and the field Partner2 is the Contact Person. So, if you search using the Partner2, you can get it's Company in Partner1, witch should be a Bidder.
There are some BP in Partner2 that are not Contact Persons, but you can filter that buy serching only the BP with PARTNER_FCT = '0000017'.

How to fetch the contact person of the Vednor in SRM

Hi All,
   I need to display the Contact Person of the vendor which is maintained in XK03(contact person(view)).
     ->How to fetch that name in the SRM ?
    ->Is any FM exists ?
Thanks and Regards
Channappa

Hello Channappa,
Contact person is only significant for Bid Invitations.
For Bid Invitations, you don't have a Vendor but a Bidder with one or several Contacts Persons.
So, when you are in BBP_BID_INV transaction, when you look for bidders to link to your bid invitation, you will find their contacts: this is standard process.
In SAP GUI transaction BP, you will see bidder contacts if customizing done to use BBP_VENDOR_SYNC report to replicate vendors is correctly maintained.
Regards.
Laurent.

Assign one contact person to all vendors

Hi folks
We will be using surrogate bidding , I want to assign one contact person to all Vendors , and currenctly in SRM you can only assign one contact person to one vendor , is there a way of bypassing this or of assigning contact person to multiple vendors ?

Hi Warona,
The application works as below:
1. While you access the application, the bidder should be selected for whom the surrogate bid is placed.
2. Then a bid can be placed, although multiple sur. bids are placed for the same bidder, th system will just ower write the previuosly created one (One Bid Invitation - One Bid or surrogate bid for a bidder)
3. Then if you want to submit a bid for a different bidder and for the same bid invitation, you have to go back to the application again (bacause only then you ca select the next bidder). Then the same cycles 1- 3 goes on.
Hopes this solves your problem.
Regards
Kathirvel

Process Bid as Substitute---Contact Person Mandatory?

Dear Experts,
Our customer won't like to use SUS to process Bid but they need to use 'Bid Invitation' as RFQ. It seems the purchaser need to use function 'process bid as Substitute' to matintain the quotation. My question is:
1、Is purchaser have to use function 'process bid as Substitute' ? Any other way to maintain the quotation?
2、If purchaser have to use function 'process bid as Substitute' , is contact person mandatory for each bidder? We have to mass create contact person for every protential bidder?
Many thanks.

Hi Darcy,
There are two transactions to submit surrogate bids and are below:
To do this, the purchaser goes into the transaction Process Bid as Substitute, searches for a contact person and creates the bid for the bid invitation in question.
1) BBP_QUOT_BOB - Process Surrogate Bid
Here you have to select the contact person of a bidder first for submitting a surrogate bid
The purchaser can also bid as substitute within an existing bid invitation by using the Bid as Substitute functions provided in the bidder list
2)BBP_BID_INV - Process Bid Invitation
Here you have to navigate to
Header Data -> Bidders / Bids
-> Here for all bidders with contact person and who have permitted surrogate bidding, you click "Create Quotation for Bidder" button at the right hand side.
Hope this is clear. But a contact person is required in both cases.
Regards
Kathirvel

Badi for contact person creation of isa user admin

Hi fnds,
I am creating a new custom field on isa user admin app of b2b. Now when i create a contact, the FM CRM_ISA_UA_IUSER_CREATE is been called. I am planning to pass this custom value to extension table of this FM.
Now can u tell me a badi which triggers, so that i can use the extension table values and save it to the contact person details in the database?
I am looking for a badi to save this custom value to contact person BP .
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HI Niraja,
Thanks for the useful information that itself has partially solved my querry, along with this I am in need of one more clarification from you and that is while creating user from ISA user management how can i modify it to add a standard user alias field, like u said I have created one custom field in ISA user mangement, can u please share it so that I can enhace the ISA user mangement to have one standard field(user alias).
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Notifications not going to the contact person

Hello Friends,
Scenario - When i create an RFI Customer activity in a CSR and set its status to 'Requested Customer'', a notification (more information is required) goes to the contact person and the team lead of CRO (Customer Responsible Organization). If the customer does not reply for 3 days (in case of a High Severity CSR) or 7 days (in case of severities other than High), then reminder notifications (more information required - reminder) get triggered which go to the contact person and the team leads of CRO.
Problem - In the first case,the notification (more information is required) goes to the contact person and the team lead of CRO (Customer Responsible Organization) where as in the second case, the reminder notifications do not go to the contact person, but they go to the team leads of CRO.
Analysis - There are 2 workflows that get triggered when the RFI Customer activity in a CSR and set its status to 'Requested Customer''. The first one sends the notification (more information is required) to the contact person and team leads of CRO immediately. The other workflow checks whether the customer has replied for 3 days (in case of a High Severity CSR) or 7 days (in case of severities other than High), and then sends the notification to the contact person and team leads of the CRO. I have checked the bindings, tasks, receiver rules and the methods in both these workflows. They are exactly similar. The only difference in these workflows is the wait step added in the second workflow.
Do you have any clue as to what is the reason behind the second workflow not sending the notifications to the contact person ?
Appreciate your help and timely response.
Thanks
Prashant

Hello Rick,
Thank you for your response. Here are the answers to your queries -
Question -->Is a mail being sent to the same email address in both workflows with SendMail, and only working in one of them?
Answer --> Yes
Question -->There must be some other difference other than the wait step.
Answer --> The difference between the 2 workflows is mentioned step by step as below -
Workflow for which the notifications are sent to the contact person and team lead of CRO
Step 1 --> Condition step whether the email address exists or not.
If No --> Sends a mail to the LDA (Local Database Administrator) to maintain the email address of the contact person
If Yes --> Goto Step 2
Step 2 --> Condition step whether the Severity of the CSR is High or not
If Yes --> Send step (to send the email notifications to the contact person and team lead of CRO)
If No --> Send step (to send the email notifications to the contact person and team lead of CRO)
Workflow for which the notifications are not sent to the contact person and team lead of CRO
Step 1 --> Condition step whether the email address exists or not.
If No --> Sends a mail to the LDA (Local Database Administrator) to maintain the email address of the contact person
If Yes --> Goto Step 2
Step 2 --> Condition step whether the Severity of the CSR is High or not
If High - Wait Step (waits for 3 days before sending the notifications to the contact person and team lead of CRO)
If Other - Wait Step (waits for 7 days before sending the notifications to the contact person and team lead of CRO)
Step 3 --> Condition step to check the CSR Status (to check whether the customer has replied or not)
If Yes(customer replied) --> End workflow
If No (customer has not replied)--> Send step (to send the email notifications to the contact person and team lead of CRO)
Question -->How have you implemented the wait step? Does it fetch the address before or after the wait?
Answer --> The email address is fetched at the very first step.
Question -->What happens if you make a test workflow with just the Sendmail step and send to the same address?
Answer --> The notification goes to the same email address.
Kindly let me know if the information that i have provided is comprehensive enough. Your help will be deeply appreciated.
Thanks
Prashant

Importing Contact Persons through DTW

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I´am trying to import Contact Persons through DTW. These "Contact Persons" belong to Business Partners that already have "Contact Persons". I want to add new contact persons to these Business Partners. The problem that instead of adding those Contact Persons, the DTW is updating the Contact Persons that already exists.
I have two files, Business Partners and Contact Employees. In this first one I´m using two fields (Recordkey and Cardcode). In the second one, Contact Employees, i´m leaving blank the field "linenum". I´m also setting in the third step of the DTW process, the option of "Add all items into Schema if can´t find corresponding item when updating". In the 5 step I choose Update objects"
Thanks in advanced

Aridane,
Apologies ... I misunderstood what you were asking. If you look at the sample temple for Contacts that are related to Business Partners at ...
..\Program Files\SAP\Data Transfer Workbench\Templates\Data preparation examples\20. TestCase2_Test Data for Update function\oBusinessPartners\ContactEmployees.csv
Here you can see that you have to relate the RecordKey of the ContactEmployee to the RecordKey for the Business Partner. If there are multiple contacts for the same Business Partner, the RecordKey is repeated as in the example and you increment the LineNum for each different Contact.
HTH,
Eddy

Relationship Between ECC Customers (Contact Persons) and CRM BP

Hello,
I am new to middleware and need some help with the relationship between ECC customers/contact persons and CRM business partners.
We are transferring via bdoc this information from ECC to CRM.
Which bdoc types are used when transferring customers/contact persons? I believe it is BUPA_MAIN but am not too sure. How is the relationship between customer its contact person transferred? Is this done through BUPA_REL? I looked at the segment fields in SBDM but am not too sure how to understand the relationship...
Thanks for the help!
Regards,
Tiffanie

Thanks! With the initial load, how do I check what fields are being passed in the bdocs?
I tried to look for customer_main, customer_rel in SBDM and couldn't find it. Instead I used BUPA_MAIN and found some segments but couldn't find all the data that was being transferred (e.g. customer name, address, etc...) Where do I find all the fields contained in the bdoc?
I see them in SMW01 when I view the bdoc contents but can not find the actual structure (data fields) that are being brought in from ECC.
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Email Campaign Execution: Contact person Relationship

Hi All,
I created a target group which contains a list of Contact Persons. I am testing executing an email campaign against this target group.
This contact person also exists as a relationship to a prospect.
The email address maintained on the contact person master data may be different from the email address maintained on the relationship. Our end goal here is to execute the email campaing against the addresses maintained on the relationsip and not on the master data. When I execute the campaing, it sends the email out to the address maintained on the contact person master data. Do you know what I can do for it to pick up the email address maintained on the relationship? Is it standard CRM functionality for it to pick up the email address from the master data rather than the relationship?
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Kiran.

Hi!
I know that has been a while since you two resolved these question, but can someone give me a hint with this?
I'm facing a similiar question... I need to send campaign mails to contact persons (to the relationships contact mails). But i can not see any B2B flag... Can someone please tell me where can i check this field? (I'm working with CRM 7.0 (and Webclient UI))
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Campaign execution not send emails for contact persons

Hi All!
I'm facing a problem with Campaigns (communication medium - E-mail): Those are the steps i'm following:
1.Start the campaign, and on the "campaign: Schedule job" screen, i choose "immediately". If i look at the campaign details after scheduled the job, the status is now "job started".
2. To check wich mails were sent, I also had a look at the business partner account that belongs to the target group used. On the "Interaction History" block, there is a line: "Outgoing Email" - on the details of this outgoing email I can see the "To" (Receivers). And here, I have emails from the business Partner contact persons and from the business partner itself (the email that is on the header level of the business partner account, on the "main address and communication data" area). So far so good. That's exactly what i need but,
3. If i go to the tcode, i only have a send request for the business partner itself and none for his contact persons (although those emails are on the "To" line for the interaction history).
I'm working on the Webclient UI, of the CRM 7.0
Does someone knows why the emails are not being sent also for the contact persons?
Thanks in advance.
Inê

I have achieved this by implementing the BADI : CRM_MKT_ADR_SEARCH
In this BADI's method : CHANGE_SEARCH_RESULTS you can modify the data which is being sent back to system for campaign execution.
NOTE: I am using Address Independent Communication Data of Business Partner
Below is my sample code for contact person email :
data: wa_bp_cp_channel type crmt_bp_cp_channel.
field-symbols: <fs_bp_cp_channel> type crmt_bp_cp_channel.
types: begin of ty_cp,
          partner type but000-partner,
          address type but000-addrcomm,
         end of ty_cp,
         begin of ty_bpcp,
           partner1 type but051-partner1,
           partner2 type but051-partner2,
         end of ty_bpcp.
data: it_cp type table of ty_cp,
        wa_cp type ty_cp.
data: it_bpcp type table of ty_bpcp,
        wa_bpcp type ty_bpcp.
data: it_bp type table of ty_cp,
        wa_bp type ty_cp.
read table ct_bp_cp_channel into wa_bp_cp_channel with key com_channel = '03'.
if sy-subrc = 0.
    select partner addrcomm
      from but000
        into table it_cp
          for all entries in ct_bp_cp_channel
            where
              partner = ct_bp_cp_channel-cp_number.
    select partner1 partner2
      from but051
        into table it_bpcp
          for all entries in ct_bp_cp_channel
            where
              partner1 = ct_bp_cp_channel-bp_number.
    if it_bpcp[] is not initial.
      select partner addrcomm
        from but000
          into table it_bp
            for all entries in it_bpcp
              where
                partner = it_bpcp-partner2.
    endif.
    sort it_cp by partner.
    sort it_bp by partner.
    sort it_bpcp by partner1.
    loop at ct_bp_cp_channel assigning <fs_bp_cp_channel> where com_channel = '03'.
      read table it_cp into wa_cp with key partner = <fs_bp_cp_channel>-cp_number binary search.
      if sy-subrc = 0.
        <fs_bp_cp_channel>-addrnumber = wa_cp-address.
        clear <fs_bp_cp_channel>-bp_number.
        clear <fs_bp_cp_channel>-bp_guid.
      else.
        read table it_bpcp into wa_bpcp with key partner1 = <fs_bp_cp_channel>-bp_number binary search.
        if sy-subrc = 0.
          read table it_bp into wa_bp with key partner = wa_bpcp-partner2 binary search.
          if sy-subrc = 0.
            <fs_bp_cp_channel>-addrnumber = wa_bp-address.
            clear <fs_bp_cp_channel>-bp_number.
            clear <fs_bp_cp_channel>-bp_guid.
          endif.
        endif.
      endif.
    endloop.
endif.

How can I maintain more than one contact person for a supplier

Hi
As per our business requirement , How can I maintain more than one contact person for a single supplier in SRM?
How these contact persons are supposed to log in to a portal with different user id and passwords and access the bids for same supplier.
we are in SRM 7, and currently we are creating contact person throug customised BDC.
please advice.
Thanks & Regards
NITIN
Edited by: nitinkk on Sep 9, 2011 10:22 AM

Dear Yaniv,
Thanks for your information,
I am able to create users But my problem is How these contact persons are supposed to log in to a portal with different user id and passwords and access the bids for same supplier ? Is there any kind of maping is available for the user/ contact person to the supplier no.??
Thanks & Regard
NITIN

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