Direct & Plan driven procurement question

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SRM 5.0 - Classical scenario.

I am pretty clear about the pre requisites and the process for Direct procurement and Plan driven procurement but I have few questions

1. Can I have direct procurement and Plan driven procurement by using Classic scenario?

2. How do I create shopping cart for Direct materials? - Is it ' Internal goods / services' option from the browser?

OR Direct & Plan driven procurement is the same ?

Can anybody explain to me what is the main difference between the two and how we create the shopping cart?

Thanks in advance and full points will be rewarded.

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J P

[Former Member]

Hi J P,

the difference is between External Procurement and Plan Driven Procurement.

1. You can have both in parallel. Classic is working directly for external Procurement. For Plan Driven ECS is prerequisite; nevertheless, which adjustments it is possible to get to wrking

2. Yes, in the screen there is then a Button called "Order as Direct". The system

then takes away the accounting view and orders it as a direct material.

For me direct and plan driven is the same; difference is external procurement, where a req with accounting information is moved up to SRM for Sourcing.

For plan driven a Req is created in the operational system (R/3) and via rules moved to SRM for Sourcing, there sourced and a PO initiated.

For external procurement a req is created in R/3 (not a typical MRP req, like in plan driven) and then moved to SRM for sourcing, sourced and PO initiated.

Cheers,

Claudia