Displaying PO's on EP6 for our suppliers

Question

We are currently using Enterprise Portal v. 6.0 and we want to display Purchase Orders & Scheduling Agreements for our suppliers on the EP6. We would need to identify if they are NEW PO's/SA's, or if it is an amendment (supplement) that has been done on an already existing PO/SA.
I would expect that this is an out-of-the-box functionality from SAP and I have found the "Business Package for Subcontracting" but it seems to be directed at the internal user, not the suppliers.
We are also interested in making the PO's available in XML format, if our suppliers want to electronically feed them into their own back end systems.
Thanks for any input.
Carolyn Wrong
Pratt & Whitney Canada

Answer 1

Hello Carolyn,
Supplier Self Service (SUS) is a SAP component that pushes PO and SA to the supplier.
This is a piece of the SAP Supplier Portal, for order collaboration.
This is part of SRM solution
Via this component, suppliers can process:
- Purchase Orders
-- Download PO: You can download purchase orders in CSV format and XML format
-- Print PO: You can print purchase orders in CSV, XML, and PDF format
- Shipping Notifications
- Confirmations
- Invoices & credit memos
- Notifications from purchasers
- Scheduling Agreement releases
- Messages
- own data
- links to SRM bid invitations
There are some variants between SRM/SUS and MM/SUS scenario.
For direct supplier XML integration, PO can be sent to the supplier via XML for long in SAP solutions, from R/3 or SRM.
XI content is provided to generate XML file from SRM or R/3 calls.
Rgds
Christophe