Vendor confirmation best practice or whitepaper

Do anyone have a best practice document or whitepaper from SAP or customer? I would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi Ranjan,
As far as best practice for confirmation creation goes , it should be decided by who is the goods recipient , what access the goods recipient have and  and what type of material it is , direct or indirect ..
Ideally  for most of Indirect procurement where requestor is creating a cart for himself or his department and would be reciving the good/ service himself , he/she should do the confirmation in SRM.
In case of direct material definitely GR  need to be done in the ECC.
Thanks
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