SAP SRM550 : Shopping Cart Assessing PO...

I had initially wanted to write about my experience in accessing a PO from EBP to ECC6 system about a year ago but ECC6 rollout project had tied up all my time. So here it is. EBP is totally whole different environment. Table wise, transparent tables like EKKO and EKPO are not available. Most data accessed by EBP are extract via BBP RFC function modules from ECC6 (standard system).

Therefore, EBP (SRM) development revolves largely around BBP's BAPI and RFC functions modules*. It is quite an interesting system on the overall and it is worthwhile exploring and expanding your SAP universe. It is not just ECC6 alone because there are other several industry specific system spawn out from ECC6.

Coming back to my Shopping Cart Report, there are several function modules that you can use to extract data from ECC6:
1. FM : BBP_PROCDOC_GETLIST
2. FM : BBP_PD_PO_GETDETAIL
3. FM : META_PO_GETDETAIL

Each of this function module in EBP has a different and important role in reporting or process development.

1.BBP_PROCDOC_GETLIST has a parameter that allows you to obtain shopping cart no and several other SC item information.

2.BBP_PD_PO_GETDETAIL obtains PO No and information from PO Header. This ties to the SC.

3.META_PO_GETDETAIL refers to information extract of PO line items. This can be a query resultant of second function module BBP_PD_PO_GETDETAIL. However, one can try to query out this FM from the first function BBP_PROCDOC_GETLIST.

* BAPI is an encapsulated function module with a layer of RFC and published in the Business Object Repository


williamwilstroth... SRM, EBP...