PO in SRM and R/3- How to distinguish

Hi all:
we have SRM and R/3 and we do reporting in BW.
i know lot of BW and i am trying to catch with up with EBP now.
aswe know a SC is created in SRM, it gets (may/maynot) approved.
in our case once it gets approved although a PO is created in SRM we replicate that PO in R/3 and GR and Invoice are generated in R/3. i am clear till this part.
Q 1. instead of extracting R/3 PO's to BW can i use SRM PO's directly(my source system is defined already)
Q 2. But my Invoices are created in R/3. so, can i only pull invoices data from R/3 and the rest from SRM.
Thanks
Kavi.
i will assign points for useful answers

1) The PO data can be extracted from SRM or R/3 . But the advantage of extracting data from R/3 is that you have lot many other data while compared to SRM system . In case u are having SRM and Sap R/3 or ECC as your backend system , it is always better to extract PO data from R/3 or ECC. In case your backend system is going to be other than SAP system , probably we can think of extracting data from SRM.
2) GR and invoice data always have to be pulled from R/3 system
3) Shopping cat details exist only in SRM and the details has to be extracted only from SRM .
Suggest to extract 1) shopping cart from SRM 2) PO,GR and Invoice from SAP R/3 or ECC.
Hope above clarifies your questions
Regards
Mani
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