Procurement of Direct Materials in SAP SUS

Hi gurus,
I need a supplier portal, my client wants that suppliers can confirm PO directly, not calling to the purchaser.
I have read that Supplier Self-Services (SUS) and SAP Materials Management (SAP MM) can be used in conjunction with each other.
But then I have read about the Supplier Workplace.
Anyone of you knows the advantages and disavantages to work with SUS or with Supplier Workplace?
Many thanks!!!
Regards
Patrícia

Hello Patrícia,
Please find the earlier discussions on SUS vs supplier workplace & supplier portal.
Hope this will help.
Thanks
Ashutosh

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Hi Ramki,
thanks for the confirmation. one more thing, can we setup different po type in classic scenario when we're creating po from rfx response? as i understand we can only setup one number range for po backend in srm config, so what should i do if i want to specify that user can chose the po type that they want to create in backend as a follow on from rfx response?
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Salut George,
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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
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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.
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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.
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inventory managed.
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Can anybody explain me Scenarios? With examples
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Hi
For import Po you should have different pricing procedure as per your business
there will total 7 condition for BCD and CVD that you have to map in your pricing proecdure
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JCDB IN: Basic Custom Duty
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Request you to let me know how I can make this work.
I have an option to make it mandatory to have Preq for these PO's and can enable release strategy for Preq which are created other than MRP.
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ECS Scenario with PPS, ECC EHP4, SRM7.0.
The system is giving error as 'account assignment category is missing' for 'direct materials'. We have same problem while creating SC in SRM also and for PDP als.
Items with account assignment are working perfecly fine for both SC and PDP, for same product category.
For PDP: System did not give any error at PR stage, but if see log in SLG1 in SRM, we see that, it did not transfer to SRM as 'account assignment category' is missing.. moreover, If we create a standard PO item, for the same material group (without reference to PR) it is pefectly working. GR, IR everything is fine in ECC... So there should not be any problem in ECC account assignment(?).
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hi
Can you create sc see account assignment folder though ypu order as direct material in PPS scenario?
please check BBP_PDIGP-subtype =dp and external requirement.
SAP has designed like that for PPS scenario
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check with SAP, Learn that SRM not creates a shopping cart for direct materials for the purchase requests.
since they are throwing explicitly error message
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I have one doubt, here iam implementing
HTTP TO RFC scenario.
My doubts are------
1. Should we create DT MT MI and all (OR) not
2.In Request DT how the message structure wil be to get the list of materials from sap r/3 system as Response(Ex: Fields in the source structure).
3.Or the second thing is how to get the list of materials start with some alphabate.
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Hi Khanna,
 1. Should we create DT MT MI and all (OR) not
 Yes U need to create for HTTP site...for RFC U need to import..
2.In Request DT how the message structure wil be to get the list of materials from sap r/3 system as Response(Ex: Fields in the source structure).
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3.Or the second thing is how to get the list of materials start with some alphabate.
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We have maintained Customer Group Specific Sales Price List for the Materials in the following Location.
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                                       (B). We could not find any SAP standard reports in Product Portfolio and/or Business Analytics Work Center for
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Searching For :
                                       (A). Is there any SAP reports or data source available for getting the entire Purchase Price List records?
                                       (B). Can we have any other filter conditions for exporting the Purchase Price List records in a single shot or module wise?
Please go through the attached screen shots for the references and more clarity on the issues.
I am waiting for the valuable responses.
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Susanta Dey Sarkar
Bangalore, India
19th March, 2015

Dear Michael,
The number of records :
2 Million (Approximately) is for the Sales Price List Material Price Data
4 Million (Approximately) is for the Purchase Price List Material Price Data.
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/6a/e6194119d8f323e10000000a155106/content.htm
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https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f6d2d790-0201-0010-9382-b50b499b3fbe
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