SRM and Inventory with a Contract

Question

Using ECC 6, SRM 7(Extended Classic)
Contracts maintained in backend and replicated into SRM.
Inventory Contract created in a 'bulk' fashion - e.g. - without a specific Material.
Contract is setup in ECC with an Item Category of 'M' (Material Unknown) and an Account Assignment Category of blank.
If using ECC we then raise a Purchase Order - this works fine.
When replicating the Contract into SRM it fails error is 'BL001' - Item type error.
General Scenario - We have a contract for numerous goods (Clothing) , so we enter one (1) line in the Contract. We can't define a specific material on the Contract as the goods required vary ecah Shoppnig Cart - e.g. - Shirt Blue Size 10 on 1 SC, then next day may be Trousers Grey Long - whatever. All of the various types of clothing are covered under one (1) Contract.
We can;t specify a particular Material on the Contract because the SC (and subsequent PO) will validate against the Contract Material. This all works fine in SRM and it seems that our problem is the inability to replicate teh contract into SRM since it does not recognise the 'M' Item Type category.
Any guidance appreciated.
Thanks.
Gerry Steer

Answer 1

Hello Gerry
I dont know the answer but i am telling the fact of SRM
SRM has three Item types
Material
Product category
Services
but i understand you use this report BBP_CONTRACT_INITIAL_UPLOAD program to transfer all ECC contract to SRM as a repository upon your business rule,
SAP SRM dont have idea how material unknown M item category mapped in SRM
as of i know there is no option in SRM for this MATERIAL UNKNOWN item type .
SERVICE - AVAILABLE IN SRM
MATERIAL - KNOWN MATERIAL AVAILABLE IN SRM
MATERIAL GROUP - Available in SRM
Please kindly report to SAP via OSS message  , i think this unknown material mapping must be done as equivalent to ECC or some alternative like product category contract.
Muthuraman