Mass upload/add new purhcaser to Procurement Substitutes for Team Purchasing

[Former Member]

Hello experts,

I come to you with a request that requires your expertise in SRM user settings.

I have under administration in SRM around 800 users, that were setup during time.

Now my problem is that when a purchaser leaves/join I need to manually  take each user and add the Buyer 1 or 2 under Procurement Substitutes for Team Purchasing

We have tried requesting to every user to add the buyer 1 to their personal settings, but not all of them do it.

My question to you experts: is there a transaction  code to add buyer 1 for 800 or less users at the same time. or and function in SPRO that can help me with a mass upload?

Thank you in advance for your support and time.

Regards Giorgian.

[ivy_li · Accepted solution]

Hi,

As I know, we have no standard report or t-code to mass update the substitute for team purchasing.
Usually all the maintained data is stored in table /SAPSRM/SC_TP.
And the method to update/delete/add substitute is as below:

Class /SAPSRM/CL_PDO_SC_TP_HELPER

Method DELETE_TEAM_MEMBER                                 Remove substitute of a user.
Method ADD_TEAM_MEMBER                                    Add a substitute for a user.

You may consider making use of them to create your own report to automatically update the table.

BR,
Ivy

[Former Member]

Hello Ciocodeica,

In addition to what Ivy suggested, I can suggest to link it with HR Master data.

For eg, if they are reporting to same Manager then you can pick up the Team based on manager and use above Methods for doing the required entries.

Or else, if they belong to same Org unit in HR data, then also, you can easily pick them up

Regards

Manish Agrawal

[Former Member]

Hello Manish,

we do work with ORg units, but i do not know how to link with HR master data.

can you help me with the steps? or is a different module.

[Former Member]

Hello,

Let me try to explain with example.

For ex, if 10 different users need to be maintained as Purchasing substitute for each other then We can identify the linking factor between them. They may be either mapped under single Org unit in your Org structure or they might be reporting to same manager, then you can identify the purchasers and use them.

So, based on that you can try to identify the list of users who need to be managed as Purchasing substitutes.

Hope that helps.

Regards

Manish Agrawal