Integration with SAP Supplier Self-Services 

Use

Integration with SAP Supplier Self-Services (SUS) allows you, as a purchaser, to publish a bid invitation initiated in SAP Bidding Engine via the SUS application. Bidders can then use that service as a single point of access for all interactions with you, the purchaser.

The bid invitation URL allows the bidder to be redirected to SAP Bidding Engine out of the SUS application without having to log on separately to SAP Bidding Engine.

Prerequisites

·        You have installed SAP Enterprise Buyer.

·        You have installed a webserver with redirect functionality (for example, an apache webserver).
For more details on how to use and configure the webserver’s redirect functionality, refer to the webserver documentation.

·        You have set up a mapping table (normally a simple text document) containing all the rules governing which request has to be mapped onto what location in the purchaser’s SAP Enterprise Buyer system, as described below.

The Reverse Proxy resides before the DMZ like a firewall. The Reverse Proxy is used to redirect any connections coming from the Internet through itself (but only if it matches the predefined rules) back to the SAP Enterprise Buyer system without showing the real address of the SAP Enterprise Buyer system.

·        You have the necessary IP address or IP name of the Reverse Proxy and the login parameters (users and password) to access the SAP Enterprise Buyer system.

·        You have identified the corresponding URLs and entered them in the relevant text files.

The following entries have to be made manually:

Supplier Self-Services: In the Global.properties file, specify the URL of the corresponding Reverse Proxy. The property to be adjusted is called reverse_proxy.

The SUS user who needs this function in the SUS user interface must ask User Management to assign the permission SUS_EBP_BIDDING_ENGINE.

¡        Reverse Proxy: In the httpd.conf file, specify the URL of the corresponding Enterprise Buyer system.

SAP ships these files with dummy values that can easily be changed to the relevant URLs .

For more information on how to set up the system and on how to respond to a bid invitation via the SUS application, please refer to the SUS online documentation.