Punch out - Category Mapping

[Former Member]

Hello experts,

We are trying to implement the Punch Out catalogs in our SRM 7 system. We have managed to establish the connection to our supplier and we can access his catalogs but I'm a little stuck in the category mapping and transfer.

The supplier told me he has some schemas he can provide (like UNSPSC 7, UNSPSC 11.2 or eClass 4.0, eClass 6.2) but asked me to choose one of this and I'm not sure which one to pick.

Do you know if there are any incopatibilities between SRM 7 and the different UNSPSC categories versions?

I understood that this mapping can be achieved in standard without implementing the BADI. Is this true?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

[timea_sap · Accepted solution]

Hi Catalin,

It is true, the catalog has to send the data according to the OCI 4.0 specification in standard OCI fields.

To send the schema and the category, the OCI fields NEW_ITEM-EXT_SCHEMA_TYPE and NEW_ITEM-EXT_CATEGORY or NEW_ITEM-EXT_CATEGORY_ID have to be used.

See also Point "External Product Categories" of the OCI 4.0 documentation.

Regarding the different schema types I'm afraid I cannot help you further.

Regards,

Timea

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Timea,

Thank you for the answer. This brings me one step closer. The question now is how do I select those schema's?

I'm asking this as when I go to the OCI mapping in the portal I can only see the fields in the MDM Catalogues.

Does this mapping come automatically in case of Punch Outs?

[former_member215582 · Accepted solution]

In case of punch out catalog if vendor and client is not using same schema, then you have to implement BADI to map vendor product category with client product category.

With my client, we have implemented BADI BBP_CATALOG_TRANSFER to map vendor product category with client product category by using custom table.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi   We are implimenting  srm mdm 7.0  .My confussion is for External vendor catalog like Staples do  we bring into MDM catalog or  it will be just seperate as a punch out catalog with defining the external webservices  or do we need to collect the data of staples into excel and need to upload to mdm .

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

We are using the following scenarios:

1. All internal catalogues (negociated by purchasing) are stored in MDM and then called to the SRM Portal via an web call structure. This requiers you to to set-up the call structure in SRM and the upload all the products to MDM via an excel upload.

2. For external catalogues that are vendor maintained we are using the Punch Out catalogues. The main difference between this and the catalogues at point one is that you remotly connect to the vendors website via a web call structure and when all shopping is done you just submit the shopping cart via the OCI (open catalogue interface). This though needs to have the vendor the catalogue OCI enabled.