DSN - SPRO Configuration - Enable Vendors step

[S0022095933]

Hello Experts,

checking documentation, I saw that one of deployment steps is to set the customizing "Enable Vendors". My understanding is that this in needed in order to add Supplier already present on AN in order to let system interact automatically with same AN Supplier account. But what about new supplier present in ERP, do we need to configure them also in this customizing? and what about "after deployment", who wll set vendors in this customizing table?

thank you for your guidance!

[Prem_Tracz]

Hi,

What is the table use for in enable vendors step:

The ARBCIG_AN_VENDOR database table maintains the vendors that are registered suppliers on Ariba Network and their company codes. This information is useful when you are trying to put a check on Vendor details available in this table. for example a quality notification/quality inspection/Component Inventory message will not trigger for a vendor not available in the Ariba Network table if this check is on.

Within DSN scope, this table is used for following transactions:

Invoice Status Update (ISU), Receipts, ERP-SES, Payment Proposal

So if you do not have any of these documents in scope you do not need to execute this step.

Other objects that use this table are following:

ARBCIG_ERPSES_XBLNR_UPDATE ARBCIG_INVOICESTATUS_EXPORT ARBCIG_INBOUND_IDOC_SUR_F02 ARBCIG_PROA_FORECAST_EXTRACT ARBCIG_PRODUCT_ACTIVITY ARBCIG_PRODUCT_ACTIVITY_CSGF01 ARBCIG_RECEIPT_PUBLISH ARBCIG_PROA_SMI_EXTRACT ARBCIG_INBOUND_IDOC_SUR_F02 ARBCIG_PRODUCT_ACTIVITY_CSGF01 CL_ARBCIG_ADAPTER_UTIL========CM001 CL_ARBCIG_IM_COMP_ACK_CONF====CM00H CL_ARBCIG_PROA_CSNPGI_PUB_IMPLCM003 CL_ARBCIG_PRODUCT_ACTIVITY_CONCM009 IF_ARBCIG_INVOICESTATUSUPDATE=IU IF_EX_ARBCIG_RECEIPT_UPDATE===IU LARBCIG_ENTRYSHEETU02 LARBCIG_ENTRYSHEETU03 LARBCIG_EVENT_QLTY_INSP_OUTU01 LARBCIG_ISU_BTETOP LARBCIG_ISU_BTEU01 LARBCIG_PAYMENTPROPOSALTOP LARBCIG_PAYMENTPROPOSALU01 LARBCIG_QINSP_USAGEDECISIONU02

As for a best practice after go-live for a newly created vendor, I will check and get back to you.

Regards,

Prem

[Prem_Tracz]

To add on the remaining piece:

Usually vendor team adds a manual step to their protocol / procedure to ensure that every new vendor that gets extended to a company code is added manually to that table in question.

This is the leading practice we see among our customers.

Alternatively, we see some customer develop a customisation that updates that table automatically.

However, I do not have the code or extra details on that alternative.

[former_member761922]

Hi Prem,

we have more than 1000 existing suppliers , which we manually uploaded in S4hana and did DRFOUT to Ariba for registration. Is that mean that all 1000 suppliers with CC should be maintained in ARBCIG_AN_VENDOR for DSN transaction ( Invoice Status Update (ISU), Receipts, ERP-SES, Payment Proposal) to work properly ?