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Used Case in Connectivity between Ariba >> Central Procurement >> ECC

former_member716609
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Hi All,

Could you please help and provide your guidance on the below used case, we have few queries at the end.

Used case:

System Setup:

  • In our client, we have S4 system with 1909 FSP01 and activated Central Procurement component, which will be connected to 17 ECC systems having different EHP, (6.7.8) and SP levels.
  • We have a Ariba Guided Buying system which will act as the head of the system, where most of the indirect process will happen.
  • This Ariba Guided Buying system will be connected to ECC via CPI and central procurement.

Scenario:

PR will be created in Ariba where it will be updated in ECC and replicated in CP

Nomenclatures of Org Data are different in systems:

Example: Plant in

Ariba: 2400

S4 system: DE99

Connected system as ECC: 2400

CPH assignment of Plant and Co. Code w.r.t to connected system is done.

Issue:

When a PR is created in Ariba with Plant 2400, we are getting below error.


Analysis:

Step1#

In Debugging, It is checking the standard tables T001W in S4 system, where the Organization setup is done as DE99, and we do not have the complete org data setup, (in S4 system, under CP component we have maintained Co. Code and Plant assignment w.r.t to logical system similar to that of ECC)


Step2#

To check whether It is working, we have mapped plant 2400 = DE99, to test, but again we do not have complete setup and getting below error


Step3#

Later, we created the complete Org structure in S4 with plant as 2400 and Co. Code as 2600 and assigned them accordingly. Upon which we were able to create the PR in S4 in HELD status.

Queries:

  1. How the connection between Ariba >> CP >> ECC will be done in general?
  2. Do we have to create the Org data in S4 also same as ECC systems?
  3. Is CPH config not sufficient?
  4. If the complete org. data (Enterprise structure) needs to be maintained in S4 as that of ECC, then, we will have connectivity of 17 ECC systems with around 1700 plants approx.. which is not fairly a correct approach.
  5. There is a possibility of having repeated Co. Codes and Plants in other connected systems? How we need to approach in this case?

Awaiting your kind response, thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Thanks

Aditya

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former_member686494
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Hi Aditya,

Please find some of the answers below:

  1. How the connection between Ariba >> CP >> ECC will be done in general?

Ariba is always connected to CP and CP is then connected to ECC/backend systems.

  1. Do we have to create the Org data in S4 also same as ECC systems?

No you don't need to maintain that in CP

  1. Is CPH config not sufficient?

CPH configuration according to best practice guide is sufficient.

  1. There is a possibility of having repeated Co. Codes and Plants in other connected systems? How we need to approach in this case?

Each connected system is identified with unique company code , plant and purchase org combination. If company code and plant are same, you can still use different purchasing orgs to uniquely identify systems.

Kind regards,

Somesh

former_member716609
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Hi Somesh,

Thank you for the response and it clear the basic doubts which we had,

But, when we tried to push the PR from Ariba to ECC via CP, API was checking the standard organization tables T001W in S4 system, instead of checking in connected ECC system, and since we did not maintained the Org data in S4 having CPH component, it was throwing the error, "ENTER PLANT" in response.

Could you please share your thoughts, if you come across any of this similar situation?

Thanks

Aditya