Sachin Sethi

Enhancing Procurement with mySAP SRM

A detailed and practical understanding of mySAP SRM

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Produktbeschreibung

This book will help readers leverage valuable insights for implementation strategies and methodologies for implementing mySAP SRM to enhance procurement in their companies.

Tips and tricks, changes brought about by 5.0 and customization will be woven in throughout the book. It will provide valuable insight on integration and dependencies of mySAP SRM with core SAP R/3 components like MM, IM, FI and HR.

Highlights include:
- Operational Procurement
- Supplier Collaboration
- Integration Issues
- Architecture
- Performance Monitoring
- Upgrading
- Strategic Purchasing and Sourcing
- Implementation

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Galileo Press
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781592290680
• ISBN-10: 159229068X
• Artikelnr.: 21491463

Autorenporträt

Sachin Sethi, the resident mySAP SRM solution expert at searchsap.com, has more than nine years of consulting experience implementing eBusiness solutions & ERP applications. He has been a consultant for a number of fortune 500 companies, including the Big Five accounting firms. A certified mySAP SRM Solutions expert, Sachin has worked with the mySAP SRM/EBP product since its initial BBP 1.0 release.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: HOW SRM FITS WITHIN AN ORGANIZATION

1 Introduction to Supplier Relationship Management 29

1.1 E-Procurement and SRM 30
1.2 The SRM Vendor Landscape 34
1.3 Why SAP SRM? 35
1.4 Summary 37

PART II: WHAT IS SAP SRM?

2 SAP SRM — An Introduction 41
2.1 Evolution of SAP SRM 41
2.2 SRM and SAP Enterprise Applications 42
2.3 Benefits of SAP SRM 43
2.4 Dissecting my SAP SRM 48
2.5 SAP Components 51
2.6 Summary 55

3 Operational Procurement 57
3.1 Self-Service Procurement 61
3.2 Services Procurement 129
3.3 Plan-Driven Procurement 136
3.4 What's New in Operational Procurement? 140
3.5 Summary 143

4 Strategic Sourcing and Contract Management 145
4.1 Strategic Sourcing 146
4.2 Contract Management 177
4.3 What's New in Sourcing and Contract Management? 196
4.4 Summary 198

5 Supplier Enablement 199
5.1 Supplier Enablement Using SAP SRM 201
5.2 Supplier Registration 205
5.3 Supplier Collaboration: Order Collaboration 210
5.4 Supplier Collaboration: Inventory and Replenishment 230
5.5 Design Collaboration Using SAP PLM 232
5.6 Design Collaboration Using SAP SRM 233
5.7 Summary 236

PART III: SAP SRM IMPLEMENTATION, INTEGRATION, AND UPGRADES

6 Catalog and Content Management — Crafting Your Catalog Strategy 241
6.1 Building a Robust Catalog Strategy 243
6.2 Catalog and Content Management Using SAP SRM 254
6.3 Summary 278

7 Choosing Implementation Scenarios 281
7.1 Overview — SAP SRM Implementation Scenarios 281
7.2 The Classic Scenario 283
7.3 The Extended Classic Scenario 289
7.4 The Standalone Scenario 295
7.5 Other Scenarios 299
7.6 Things to Remember and to Watch Out For 301
7.7 Relevant OSS Notes 302
7.8 Summary 303

8 Organizational Structure 305
8.1 Overview of the Organizational Structure in SAP SRM 307
8.2 The Details Area of the Organizational Structure 313
8.3 Uploading Attributes via a Function Module 327
8.4 Customizing Attribute Maintenance 329
8.5 Deleting Organizational Objects in SRM 332
8.6 Best Practices for Creating and Managing the Organizational Structure 333
8.7 Integration with SAP HR — A Key Decision 335
8.8 Pros and Cons of Creating an Organizational Structure in EBP or Distributing from HR 341
8.9 Impact of the Extended Classic Scenario on SRM Organizational Structure 343
8.10 System Refresh Procedure Steps 344
8.11 Things to Remember 346
8.12 What's New in the Organizational Structure? 346
8.13 Summary 347

9 Integration with Financials and Project Systems 349
9.1 Financial Accounting in SAP 350
9.2 Integration of SAP Financials with SAP SRM 352
9.3 Overview of the Purchase-to-Pay Cycle 362
9.4 Budget Check in SAP SRM 367
9.5 Integration with Project Systems 370
9.6 Limitation of Extended Classic Scenario for SAP Public Sector Solution 374
9.7 Relevant OSS Notes 377
9.8 Summary 377

10 The Role of Workflow in SAP SRM 379
10.1 Workflow in SAP SRM 382
10.2 Standard Delivered workflows in SRM 387
10.3 Online and Offline Approvals 406
10.4 Implementation Best Practices 414
10.5 Security and Authorizations in Workflow 417
10.6 Responsibility Rules vs. Custom Z tables 422
10.7 Extras 423
10.8 Relevant OSS Notes 424
10.9 Summary 425

11 Managing Security in SAP SRM 427
11.1 Overview of Security in SAP 428
11.2 Security in SAP SRM 430
11.3 User Creation in SRM for Enterprise Buyer (Internal) 437
11.4 User Creation in SRM for Enterprise Buyer (External) 450
11.5 Deleting Users in SRM 452
11.6 Checking Users in SRM 453
11.7 Roles and Authorizations in SRM 455
11.8 Impact of Organizational Structure in SRM on Security 463
11.9 Position-Based Security in SRM 469
11.10 Relevant OSS Notes 472
11.11 Summary 472

12 Dependency of Master Data in SAP SRM and SAP R/3 473
12.1 Middleware 475
12.2 Locations, Payment Terms, and Pricing Conditions 478
12.3 Interlinkages 481
12.4 Vendor Lists, Contracts, and Catalogs 481
12.5 Delivery Addresses 486
12.6 External Business Partners in SRM 488
12.7 Relevant OSS Notes 498
12.8 Summary 498

13 Architecture and Technology of SAP SRM 499
13.1 SAP SRM Components and Matrix 501
13.2 SAP SRM Architecture Based on Business Scenario 506
13.3 SAP SRM Business Scenarios Using SAP NetWeaver XI 513
13.4 ITS as Part of Web AS 514
13.5 SRM Sizing 515
13.6 Summary 516

14 Upgrade — A How-To Approach 519
14.1 Why Upgrade? 520
14.2 Answer the Question: Technical or Functional? 524
14.3 Understand Your Current Environment 525
14.4 Expected Changes in New SRM Release 529
14.5 Upgrade — Tools and Resources 531
14.6 Best Practices — Upgrade Impact 535
14.7 SAP SRM Upgrade — Lessons Learned 542
14.8 Upgrade Assessment — via a Questionnaire 543
14.9 Summary 546

15 Performance Reporting via SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence 547
15.1 SAP NetWeaver BI with SAP SRM 548
15.2 Standard SAP BI Business Content for SAP SRM 558
15.3 SAP SRM Implementation Scenario Impact on BI Reporting 568
15.4 What's New in SAP SRM 5.0 Analytics? 576
15.5 Things to Remember 580
15.6 Relevant OSS Notes 580
15.7 Summary 581

16 Enterprise Portals and SAP SRM 583
16.1 SRM Business Packages for Enterprise Portal 586
16.2 Portal Security 587
16.3 Considerations for Portal Strategy 590
16.4 Summary 591
17.1 SAP SRM and SAP Government Procurement 595
17.2 What is Different in Government Procurement? 598
17.3 Summary 601
18.1 Integrate Organizational Structure with SAP HR 605
18.2 Workflow: Restriction for Changing and Adding Approvers in the Shopping Cart 613
18.3 MRP Integration with SAP SRM 616
18.4 Summary 620
18.5 Book Conclusion 621

A SRM Functionality Matrix 625

B Jobs that Require Scheduling 627
B.1 Jobs Required in SAP SRM 627
B.2 Jobs Required in SAP R/3 or ERP 631

C Using Different Browsers with SAP SRM 633

D Using Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) with SAP SRM 635
D.1 Implementing a BAdI 636
D.1.1 Multiple Use 636
D.1.2 Filter Dependent 636
D.2 Examples of BAdIs in SAP SRM 637
D.2.1 BAdI: Change Display in Shopping Cart (BBP_SC_MODIFY_UI) 637
D.2.2 BAdI: Define Target Objects (BBP_TARGET_OBJECTS) 638
D.2.3 BAdI: Change Purchasing Document data (BBP_DOC_CHANGE_BAdI) 639
D.2.4 BAdI: Check Purchasing Document (BBP_DOC_CHECK_BAdI) 640
D.3 List of BAdIs in SAP SRM 641

E Customer Fields in SAP SRM 649
E.1 Customer-Specific fields in SRM document types 649
E.1.1 Procedure for Creating a User-Defined Field 650
E.2 Related OSS NOTES 652

F Business Objects in SAP SRM 655

G Authorization Objects 657

H Quiz for Testing your SAP SRM Knowledge 659
H.1 Questions 659
H.2 Answers 663
H.3 Explanations for the Answers 663

I System Refresh Procedures 671

J Organization Structure Attributes 673

K Useful Transactions and Function Modules 681

L About the Author 686