Things to bear in new DBM implementation

[Former Member]

Hi all,

This is not a question but just a general topic regarding the points to bear in mind while implementing DBM solution.

The latest release of DBM -ECC-DIMP 6.0 does not have the credit check functionality for sales order/delivery/PGI as is available on the standard R/3. This means that if the credit check functionality is required by the organisation then this will have to be developed on your own.

In case there are lots of validations which you require in you require in the business process then this would have to be build in various BADI which have been provided. Since the DBM is based on the action control matrix ( Order control engine) please take care while configuring the action control. This is a very sensitive area and one wrong configuration will stop the process which you may have tested as working fine.

Supersession is a good functionality which has been provided as standard feature on DBM but this works fine on DBM orders. In case you require this in R/3 quotations and orders ( VA21 /VA01) then some tweaking on the item category determination and item category configuration may be required.

Vendor material master table (/DBM/OMARA) is also a good feature since this helps do away with your own custom tables for maintaining the vendor material master data within your own system.

Cash desk is also another feature which is a new DBM feature but this is still not stable and it requires the system adminstrator some time to understand the correct behavior of this feature.

Enjoy the new DBM and also help SAP to stabilize this product since there are quite number of things which are not yet mature enough to take care of all the possible business situations all around the world.

Cheers.

Kartik Shah

[Former Member]

hi Kartik,

Thanks for the information. Where ru working in SAP DBM?

Soon i am going to one of the project for SAP DBM, can you able to forward me any documentation you having for DBM????

Regards,

Vishal

vishal27580@gmail.com

[Former Member]

Hello Whish,

you can find documentation on SAP DBM here:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_dbm600/helpdata/en/6F/9FC1FA5E8F44B2858B845A3AD1249E/frameset.htm

(help.sap.com -> SAP industries -> SAP for Automotive > SAP Dealer Business Management)

Also, for your interest:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/bpx-automotive

Best, Ute

[Former Member]

hi kartik,

This is vishal from India.

At present i am working on supersession.

and the scenario is like i have material A and material B, I have superseeded material A with B,

Now when i am creating PO, and giving material A, it is giving me WARNING message that material A is no more active is replace by material B. but when i try to save this PO its allowing me to save it.

Now i want to do functnality that if user give material A, it should AUTOMOATICALLY pick up material B. how do it?

can you please help me out?

[Former Member]

Hi vishal,

There is a tab called Material Exchange in ME21N under item overview tab. When you select the item which is part of supersession chain and press this icon system will propose the list of materials under the chain and you can select the material and use this to replace the original material which was proposed on purchase order.

Search on SAP Help web site. The is quite a bit of documentaiton for supersession behavior in purchase order.

We are not using this functionality in our implementation.

Trust this helps

Regards,

Kartik Shah

[Former Member]

hi Kartik,

Thanks for the reply.

the same thing i am doing but i want whenever i eneter material A and other data related to it and press enter it should take material B rather than giving WARNING message.

Like this is manual process and user may not follow it. So is there any way to do it automatic?