Contract Item Hierarchy

Question

Hi Expert,
I'm working with SRM 7.0 Extended Classic Scenario (EHP3) assigned to backend ECC6. I have question related to enabling item hierarchy in Contract. I have activated Service Procurement in the configuration and all others configuration related to services which I could think of. However I could not create a contract with item hierarchy in SRM.
Our requirement to enable user to maintain a Contract with multiple single-level hierarchy, for example:
Contract ABC
1. Rates A
   1.1 Sub item 1
   1.2 Sub item 2
   1.3 Sub item 3
2. Rates B
   2.1 Sub item 1
   2.2 Sub item 2
   2.3 Sub item 3
Appreciate if you could shade some lights how I can enable the above structure in SRM7.0
Cheers,
Tom

Answer 1

Hi Sumat,
We manage to activate Outline item type enabling hierarchy to be manually created in Contract in SRM. However, we still have following issue transfer the Contract with items hierarchy to ERP (as per GOA distribution method). We discover the standard solution provided in SAP utilize IDoc to transfer GOA from SRM to ERP, and IDoc itself have limitation which unable to support item hierarchy. Hence, if we created a sample GOA with item hierarchy in SRM as follows:
Contract A
Item    Item Type     Description        Qty    Price
1        Outline         Service Rate1
1.1     Service        Service 1            1        10
1.2     Service        Service 2            5        20
1.3     Service        Service 3            1        30
2        Outline          Service Rate2
2.1     Service        Service 1            1        15
2.2     Service        Service 2            5        25
2.3     Service        Service 3            1        35
Once transfer over to ERP, the Contract is created as follows:
Contract A
Item    Item Cat.      Description        Qty    Price
1                            Service Rate1
2                            Service Rate2
3          D                Services
3.1                                Service 1    1       10
3.2                                Service 2    5       20
3.3                                Service 3    1       30
3.4                                Service 1    1       15
3.5                                Service 2    5       25
3.6                                Service 3    1       35
As you can see the outline parent hierarchy link is broken from the sub-items maintained in GOA.
My question: Is it possible to transfer the SRM GOA to ERP in exact same hierarchy structure?
Cheers,
Tom