Implement Supplier Portal

[#1]

Hi Team,

We are planning to implement supplier portal for our project. The purpose of this, supplier login to this portal to see their qty status by report. How much qty they have supplied and how much qty used by company etc..

Here we have material and vendor (supplier) etc. as a info objects. Different vendor can supply the same material. When the vendor login to the supplier portal to see the report and they have to look only their materials and they can't see the other vendor's material.

How do I control this ?. Do i Need to control this Vendor number info object Authorization level ?.

Pl let me know your thought here and share if any of you come across this situation.

thanks in advance for your kind help.

Regards,

Senthil.

[Former Member]

Hi Raja,

Please refer to the documentation

see SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/ibc-srm ® Integrated Business Content ® ….for mySAP SRM ® Spend Analysis and Reporting in SRM ® BW Configuration Guides ® Supplier Portal – Reporting.

This gives you a clean and robust solution.

Please assign points for usefull answers !

Thanks,

Sundeep

[Former Member]

Hi Senthil,

What is the back end system you are using? I hope it is R/3.

When you create user ids for suppliers, you can assign vendor number as a Portal attribute. So when you a call a BAPI to fetch a particular report, you will pass on the Vendor Number/s to R/3. Your BAPI accepts the request and filters the data according to Vendor number and sends the consolidated report to the Portal. As all the filtering is happening in the back end performance wise also it is a better solution.

Consider reward points, if helpful.

Regards,

Uday.

[Former Member]

Hi Udya,

Sorry for my late reply and thanks for your response.

We are extracting the vendor master from APO. How to assign vendor number as a portal attributes ?. Is there any step in portal ?. Pl let me know the steps.

I'm planning to create infoobject in BW for vendor number with Authorization relevant object. create a user with same vendor name. when vendor login to the supplier portal, authorization object will check and allow him to look into his corresponding materials.

Let me know your thoughts here.

once again thanks in advance for ur great help.

regards,

senthil.

[Former Member]

Hi Senthil,

You can add additional user attributes by following the below procedure..

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/44/0316d50bbe025ce10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm

You can create an additional Portal attribute for Vendor number. In the Webdynpro code, based on the logged in user you can extract the vendor number and pass it on to the back end BAPI, then you will make use of vendor number in your select query. I feel that this is the simplest solution for your problem.

Regarding your solution, what if a Vendor has multiple users who access your Portal. I don't think all the users from a vendor will use the same user id, which is not advisable.

Regards,

Uday.

[Former Member]

Hi Senthil,

If your problem is solved you can close this thread.

Regards,

Uday.