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As the central purchasing system, SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) can work together with different SAP and non-SAP systems (planning and executing systems), and procure any requirements for direct and indirect materials as well as for services. The requirements can originate in SAP SRM or in other systems, such as SAP ERP.

Integration

This function is used in the following business scenarios:

  • Plan-Driven Procurement.

  • Service Procurement

  • Strategic Sourcing

SAP ERP Application Components for Procurement of Direct Materials

  • Material Requirements Planning (PP-MRP)

  • Consumption-Based Planning (MM-CBP)

SAP ERP Application Components for Procurement of Other External Requirements

  • Plant Maintenance (PM)

  • Project System (PS)

  • Materials Management (MM)

Requirements in the form of purchase requisitions are transferred from SAP ERP to SAP SRM, for example by using the Collective Processing of Purchase Requisitions function of SAP ERP . As of SAP SRM 7.0, requirements containing service items with a hierarchical structure can also be transferred to SAP SRM.

SAP SRM and Non-SAP Systems

Integration of non-SAP systems is possible with the open XML interface. The XML inbound interface can process direct and indirect external requirements, and generate purchase orders from them in SAP SRM.

Sourcing

Sourcing is carried out for the external requirements. Depending on your settings in Customizing, SAP SRM either generates purchase orders immediately or transfers the items to the purchaser's sourcing application. (For more information, see Sourcing).

For more information, see Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under   SRM Server   Sourcing   Define Sourcing for Product Categories.  

Third-Party Order Processing

The interface supports the procurement type third-party order processing.

SAP SRM 7.0 currently carries out third-party processing for external requirements only. Manual creation of a purchase order for third-party processing is not possible.

Hierarchical Service Items

In the sourcing application, the system displays hierarchical service items that have been transferred from back-end systems.

Technical Scenarios

You can carry out procurement of external requirements in the following SAP SRM technical scenarios:

  • Standalone scenario

  • Classic scenario

  • Extended classic scenario

Note Note

Hierarchical service items can only be procured in the classic scenario.

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