POR & ASN on behalf of Supplier

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

We are in SRM 7.0 - MM-SUS scenario

Here the requirement is buyer wants to create Purchase Order Reponse & ASN on behalf of the supplier without sharing vendor login ID & Password.

Is this possible? If YES pl share your views.

Thanks in advance

Regards,

Mohan

[Former Member]

EBP -SRM - POR is possible by the BUYER . BUyer could create a POR manually.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm40/helpdata/en/9e/c05b402e10cd01e10000000a155106/content.htm

With SAP Enterprise Buyer you can receive purchase order responses (POR) via XML or create them manually once the vendor has transmitted the purchase order response data, for example, by fax, letter, or telephone. This can be a notification that the vendor accepts all purchase order items and can deliver them as ordered; or the vendor notifies of variances from the purchase order because he can only partly confirm it.

You normally use the purchaser role to manually enter a purchase order response. As the purchaser, you decide whether any variances between the purchase order response and the purchase order are to be taken account of in the purchase order. The purchase order response can also be entered by a central role, for example, the secretary. If, in the role of secretary, you enter varying data, the purchaser must approve the data transfer to the purchase order.

But not ASN by the BUYER. but this may be possible in EBP-SUS . you need to explore how this is possible in MM-SUS

Muthu

[Former Member]

Hi All,

due to some network issue i could not able to reply... Sorry for the delay...

Some how we can push the vendor to do PO confirmation and as you suggested we can create ASN in the background in case of Purchase order.

Whereas this is will not solve the problem in case of Schedule line. Because there is no confirmations in SA.

Pl suggest

Regards,

Mohan

[Former Member]

HI Mohan ,

Can you elaborate why there is a need for such a requirement ?

If the buyer is doing POR and ASN on behalf of Vendor then it defeats the purpose of SUS.

Regards,

Neeraj

[Former Member]

Hi

Its strange that Vendor does not want to confirm the PO and create ASN for his deliveries.

Anyway, Push the vendor to confirm the PO at least so that you get the POR from SUS to PO Acknowledgement. You can avoid creation of ASN in your scenario and directly do a GR. This can be controlled by Confirmation control key in PO.

Now, if you still want ASN to be created in ECC , then

1. Ask vendor to confirm the SUS PO so that you have delivery date committed by him

2. Write a report in ECC which can read the Acknowledgement data from PO and create a ASN in Background for the PO.

Regards

Virender Singh