Direct and in direct procurement

Hi experts,
What is the Diff between Direct and In-direct procurement in SRM and i want to to config for Classic sceanrio.
basis team has given me the servers now please let me know basic Config settings to Implement SAP SRM classic scenario,integrate with ECC.
Smriti

Hi Smriti,
Indirect Procurement = The procurement what you do is not used in the end product of the manufacturing compay. Like Office peripherals,Computers, Stationary. What ever you have procured is not used in your end product
The business scenario is Self Service procurement. Configuration part you can get from master guide from service market place
Direct Procurement: The procurement what you do is used in your end product of the manufacturing compay. Example: If a mobile manufacturer company procures the keypads,battery,dispay screen...all these material is used in the end product. So these kind of procurement you called as direct procurement.
Configuration for Direct Procuremtn will be as follows
In R/3
1. You need to configure two views i,e V_T160PR,V_T160EX and you need to schedule report BBP_EXTREQ_TRANSFER
In SRM.
1. Do the Technical settings like RFC Connections,Workflow Activations,Publish Templates
2.(Imp Config)Dedine an entry channel for this (Create a new Org unit which acts as )
3. Create a RFC user, so that communcation goes between R/3 and SRM
4.In Org structure you have to define values for an attribute DP_PROC_TY .
These are the config required for a PDP.
Hope this explanation resolved your query
Rg
Sameer

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Can you diffrentiate between Direct procurement and Indirect Procurement in SAP AFS.
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Hi Aki,
Direct Procurement
Raw Material and Production Goods
Order Qty: Large
Value: Industry specific (Like shirt in apparel industry)
Direct procurement supports the conversion of planned requirements to purchase orders.
Primary Processes-Direct Procurement
1. Determination of the materials and services required.
2. Create requisition.
3. Request for the quotation.
4. Quotation Management.
5. Vendor selection.
6. Create Purchase Order.
7. Goods Receipt and Invoice Receipt.
8. Invoice Verification/ Vendor Payment.
Indirect Procurement
Maintenance, Repair and Operating (MRO) Supplies
Order Qty: Low
Value: Generic (Machine Spare Parts in any industry)
Indirect procurement supports the purchasing of indirect materials and subcontracting.
This process can be dealt with using standard functions such as material requirements planning, purchase requisition, stock transport order, transportation planning and the handling of internal deliveries.
The cross-plant, internal procurement of materials can be carried out within one company code (intercompany) or by using several company codes (cross company).
Primary Processes-Indirect Procurement
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2. Purchase Order Management
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4. Financial Settlement
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Anirban Roy

Direct Procurement and Indirect Procurement

Please explain the different between direct procurement and Indirect procurement??

Hi,
Direct Procurement
Raw Material and Production Goods
Order Qty: Large
Value: Industry specific (Like shirt in apparel industry)
Direct procurement supports the conversion of planned requirements to purchase orders.
Primary Processes-Direct Procurement
1. Determination of the materials and services required.
2. Create requisition.
3. Request for the quotation.
4. Quotation Management.
5. Vendor selection.
6. Create Purchase Order.
7. Goods Receipt and Invoice Receipt.
8. Invoice Verification/ Vendor Payment.
Indirect Procurement
Maintenance, Repair and Operating (MRO) Supplies
Order Qty: Low
Value: Generic (Machine Spare Parts in any industry)
Indirect procurement supports the purchasing of indirect materials and subcontracting.
This process can be dealt with using standard functions such as material requirements planning, purchase requisition, stock transport order, transportation planning and the handling of internal deliveries.
The cross-plant, internal procurement of materials can be carried out within one company code (intercompany) or by using several company codes (cross company).
Primary Processes-Indirect Procurement
1. Requisitioning
2. Purchase Order Management
3. Receiving
4. Financial Settlement
Hope it helps.
Regards
KK

DIRECT MATERIAL PROCUREMENT and INDIRECT MATERIAL PROCUREMENT

please explain , what is the differance between DIRECT MATERIAL PROCUREMENT and INDIRECT MATERIAL PROCUREMENT.please explain with example.

source: http://www.ftpress.com/articles/article.aspx?p=24168
Procurement materials can be broken down into two major categories: indirect and direct.
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Indirect procurement involves any commodity or service that a company buys that does not result directly in finished goods.
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Dear all,
Can you please explain to me what is "Direct Procurement", and "Direct Production" base on the following points:
1 - What is the process about?
2 - How and when business requirement will bump into and using these two processes?
3 - Example
Please don't copy and paste the SAP help portal explanation as I have read the SAP help-portal and am NOT understand
thanks very much
tuffy

Dear Tuffy,
Direct Production:
1.The components for which individual production orders are created in a collective order concept are called as directly
produced component.
2.In my understanding these components are identified with the value 52 set for special procurement key in MRP2 view of the
material master.
3.Direct production cannot be set for the components that have any one of the indicator set for - by product, co-
product,alternative item with usage probablity 0 or alternative item with strategy 2,discontinued material,follow up material,intra
material.
4.This concept atleast helps in understanding the cost breakup than the phantom assembly concept.
5. Example:
You want to produce a pump. The BOM for the pump contains a pressure regulating valve and a spiral casing. You want to
enter these two components in separate production orders, but you do not want them to be posted to stock.
You set the special procurement type to direct production in the material master record for the pressure regulating valve and
the spiral casing, so that production occurs using a collective order.
When you create a production order for the pump, a collective order is automatically created, which contains subordinate
production orders for the pressure regulating valve and the spiral casing.
Direct Procurement:__
1.Direct Procurement is generally used for non-stock items that is defined with item category N or defined using special
procurement key for direct procurement.
2.This is widely used in the case of Make ot order or Engineer to Order production where the stock of such materials are not
inventory managed.
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S Mangalraj

What is direct procurement and indirect procurement?

Dear Gurus,
What is What is direct procurement and indirect procurement from purchasing point of view.
Pls briefly explain with examples.
Thanks in advance..

Direct procurement. Direct categories are all goods purchased by the company which directly enter into the production process of that company. For the food industry as an example, ingredients and packaging will be the key direct procurement categories.
Indirect Procurement. Indirect categories are all the goods and services that are bought by the company to enable its activity. This entails a wide scope, including marketing related services (media buying, agencies), IT related services (hardware, software), HR related services (recruitment agencies, training), facilities management and office services (Telecoms, furniture, cleaning, catering, printers), or utilities (gas, electricity, water)...etc
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Lakshminath Gunda

Direct Procurement in Classic Scenario

Hi Experts,
We are on SRM 7 Ehp1, ECC 6 Ehp4.
Classic Scenario.
1. I have read in the forums , that in Classic Scenario, direct procurement is possible but the system behaves like Extended Classic and creates a Local PO. Just want to confirm this and if yes , does this happen as a standard or do we need to implement any BADI or anything to achieve this.
2. Also , in Classic Scenario, PDP scenario , can we transfer stock items(Direct Materials) PR's into SRM system or are there any limitations.
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Aditya

Hi Aditya,
You are right. Classic system behaves as extended classic for Direct procurement scenario. Your PO will be created in SRM itself and a copy of this will be sent to ECC. This happens as a standard and no BADIs need to be implemented for this.
Also in your classic system, you can transfer stock PRs into SRM. These will be available as shopping carts in the sourcing cockpit.
Regards,
Nikhil

Purchase order directly procured

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I know that when I create a purchase requisition with direct procurement shopping cart, default account assignment is U. But for example if shopping cart has all data complete and generate a purchase order, which account assignment put as default?
Thanks in advance
Rosa Rodríguez

Hello Muthu, yes, I know that. But I am refering to purchase order that is created when you create a shopping cart as direct.
If you create a shopping cart as direct and it generates a purchase requisition in SRM, then purchase requisition has as account assignment category U.
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Which movement type to show Directly Procured material in stock?

Hi All
Is there another movement type that I can use to reverse from a network, Directly Procured material in to stock?
Our issue is that we plan and have delivered directly procured material to out production plant (Plant A) and the PO has an account assignment of 'N'. The production team then decide (due to unforseen issues) that they do not need it anymore for that network/WBS and want to send it to our central warehouse (Plant B)
In order to recover the cost from the network, we process MB1A mvt 222 with reference to the WBS in Plant A and then stock transfer to our central warehouse, Plant B
My question is....can we use another movement type to remove the cost from the project/network/WBS and return the material in to stock?
I don't want to reverse the PO but can i use that as a reference?
Your help is appreciated
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Darren

MB1A transaction is a goods issue
goods issues are valuated with the material master valuation price.
in goods issues you cannot reference purchase orders (this is only possible in receipts)
there is no goods receipt transaction for material which was already received against a PO.
You credit the network with the leading price from material master, there is no value flow in the opposite direction. But you can control the valuation if you allow external value entry in the movement, which is usually not liked by auditors, especially as such movements are executed by warehouse personnel

Directly procured materials in stock help

To All
We currently have a problem when dealing with directly procured materials.
Following a completed build of our product we have a surplus of directly proceured materials that have been ordered in error or are a result of specification changes.
We want to re-use them for future demand. Therefore, we return them from a network and put into our warehouse and in a bin. The problem arises when the planners create a new demand because the material master data will order the part as a directly procured part and will 'not see' the one we are showing in stock.
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Darren

Saleel
The material IS in stock showing in the same Plant, Sloc and Warehouse that the planners use to plan the completed product.
The material is in stock as it has been returned from the network (MB1A mvt 222) However, the material is planned in a BoM as a directly procured part as per the material master settings. When a new demand is loaded in the system, according to the material master settings it will order a directly procured part and not utilise the stock in the warehouse.
I am looking for help that when a demand is loaded, SAP will reserve the stock of a directly procured part and not order externally.
Movement 561 is an initial stock load movement type and is not recommended at any other time due to the lack of financial documents albeit a very easy way to load inventory. We use LICC/LX16 to adjust inventory in accordance with auditing rules.
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Darren

Activate order as a direct procurement button

Hi Experts,
We are on SRM 701
Classic Scenario
can anyone let me know whether we can activate order as a direct procurement button in item tab of SC? is it possible to activate it in classic scenario?
Regards
Elham

Hello Elham,
There are 4 ways of adding an item to the SC
1. Selecting from the catalogs
2. From Old SC and Templates
3. Description of the Requirement as Free Text
4. Product.
From my understanding i think the checkbox 'Order as Direct Material" will be available for selection only incase when you select "Product". So i think it will be visible only for the materials which are replicated from ECC to SRM system.
Can you check by trying to create a SC and then see whether it is available for selection.
Regards
Pramod

Rounding value for direct procurement

Hi,
I an sourcing the same material from another plant within the same client. The materiale is some times purchased as a standard material using rounding value and going to stock. But, in some cases the material is procured as direct procurement. When purchasing for direct procurement will it then be possible not to use the rounding value but just order the exact quantity?
thanks,
Anders

Hi Andres,
I think, you do not need to take any action on this requirement. SAP works the way you wanted, by standard. For example, you have a setup with a vendor (may be via info record or material master itself may have rounding qty etc)...not a problem. The parameters you use in material master will control for procurement process either triggered from planning (or production ) or manual purchases. When you create a SO# and if it triggers a purchase requisition, it sends exact quantity required only, into the preqs. By standard SAP config, the message about rounding rules is just warning. I don't think you will be stuck with this message when you try to convert the 3rd party Preq to PO. Even if there is a message, it must just warning.
Let me know with these inputs, if you test both types of PO#s, how it goes.
Regards

PO Error in Transfer for Direct Procurment

Hi All,
we are running SRM 550 and are at SP15.
We need to get SRM to order Direct Materials for a storage location in our ECC system.
So far all the config has been done, materials transferred, storage locations defined in Org structure extended attributes.
Problem is when I create a PO from a SC for direct materials I get an Error in Transfer and the error in RZ20 says that the account assignment is not valid for the ECC PO doc type.
This all used to work in 2008 when we went live wih SRM but direct procurment was switched off because the business did not need it.
In PPB_PD for the PO there is no account assignment data so I think this is where I have a problem.
I must be missing some small piece of config somewhere that provides the account assignment GL for direct procurment but I can't find it.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks in advance
Allen

Hi Allen,
Please create wildcard entries for AccAssCat in IMG table
V_BBP_DET_ACCT, details see encl. file V_BBP_DET_ACCT.DOC
The issue is that even for subtype DP Direct Procurement Account
Assignment Category must exist, otherwise PO cannot be transferred
Accounting is going to be eliminiated one step later after ordering,
in background task, not visible to the user. Please realize!
I have uploaded V_BBP_DET_ACCT.DOC to SAPMATS, click on the following link.
Link: [https://sapmats-de.sap-ag.de/download/download.cgi?id=LL0BCK4LD9DE7XZOG9M7WGGNG11AWE43UCBMUW1T05TKD1IOK2]
Hope this helps,
Kind Regards,
Matthew

Direct procurement always as extended classic -- why ?

Hi ,
As per SAP's specification , ' SRM Server is the leading server for direct procurement. This means the system behaves according to extended classic scenario' .
Is there any specific reason on why the scenario would always be extended classic for direct procurement ?
And does this also imply that in a classic scenario, if a SC is created for a direct material which refers to backend material , the PO created would be in accord with the extended classic scenario ?
Reasons/Answers --- Anyone ?
thanks-
Harmeet.

Hi Harmeet
Yes, even in classic scenario, if a SC is created for a direct material which refers to backend material , the PO created will be in accordance with the extended classic scenario by default i.e. a local SRM PO would be created which will be replicated to ECC. However you can alter this behaviour and force the system to create a PO in ECC (like classic scenario) by implementing BADIs.
Regards,
Nikhil

Direct procurement in Classic

Experts,
Need your help once again.
I have implemented direct procurement in Classic scenario (SRM 7/ECC 6.0) and after reading on this forum, I realised that Direct procurement in classic, functions as extended classic because a local PO is created in SRM and this is replicated to ECC. So far this is working for me.
Now I want to make changes to this PO. It is not allowing me to edit PO in ECC which is right because PO was created in SRM and copied to ECC. But strangely, I am unable to edit PO in SRM also?
Is this correct behaviour?
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Best Regards,
John

Hi John,
For direct procurement, it will have nothing to do with CS or ECS.
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Regards,
Guoyu

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