Middleware: extended Material to CRM Product, EEWB needed?

Question

Hi all,
  If Material in ECC contains custom fields extended by EEWB to the MARA table, and these information are needed in CRM during replication, do I need to use EEWB to extend in CRM as well? (if yes, which table to be extended for product)
Or creating new attributes to the attribute set and assign it to CRM Product's set type will do?
Kindly advise.
cheers,
ginnie

Answer 1

Hi Ginnie,
You can create a new attributes to the attribute set and assign it to CRM Product's set type. But if you want to have the information in these Zfields in ECC to pass into CRM product master fields then you need to perform the below steps.
Configuration Tables TBE24 and TPS34 in ECC must be maintained for triggering the CRM Middleware download of data from ECC to CRM. In Table TPS34 the Process CRM0_200 contains the entry for CRM Middleware download of data.
1. Activate Customer Product by maintaining table TBE24 using transaction SM30
2. Maintain the Custom product e.g. ZPROD
3. Add the function module that the OPEN_FI function module can find for a Business Transaction Event (BTE) as an alternative to a standard function module by maintaining table TPS34 using transaction SM30
4. Create Function module for mapping in ECC. For e.g. Function Module ZSEND_PROD_TO_CRM handles mapping the custom fields to be transferred to the CRM system.
5. After this you should implement the source code to do the BAPIMTCS mapping to send the data to CRM.
6. Finally, you will need to implement a BADI PRODUCT_CUSTOMER2 in CRM, method MAP_R3_TO_CRM_MATERIAL which will map all of the custom fields from ECC into the Product Master in CRM.
Hope this helps!!!
Regards,
Chandrakant