The SAP Business Network enhances a business’s ability to manage complex, multi-party interactions in a seamless, integrated environment,promoting transparency, efficiency, and collaboration across industries. Understanding and maintaining required parameters within the SAP system is crucial for ensuring effective purchase order integration.
In the Managed Gateway Add-On, parameters are used to configure and manage how Purchase Orders are transmitted from SAP ERP or S/4HANA (on-premise) to the SAP Business Network.
These parameters help shape the behavior, structure, and content of Purchase Order documents during integration. With these parameters,you can control the transmission of purchase orders, enhance payload accuracy by defining how data such as partner functions, regions, and addresses are included, enable Output Control Compliance, and, in some cases, support localization for global business clarity.
It is important to maintain the various parameters for sending purchase orders or subcontracting purchase orders to suppliers and for sending copies of subcontracting purchase orders to multiple contract manufacturer suppliers on the SAP Business Network.
In this video, you’ll learn the purpose of a Purchase Order and how to maintain the parameters.
| Parameter | ||
|---|---|---|
| ARIBA_SRVMAPKEY | Required for service purchase orders that have service line number and use the service map key activated on the SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA system. | Variable Name: ARIBA_SRVMAPKEY Field Name: Leave it blank Number: 0000 Low: X (to enable) or leave it blank (to disable) |
| CSC_COPY_SUPPLIER_PARVW | Required for multitier purchase orders for SAP Business Network for Supply Chain. Use this parameter to send more than one copy of the multitier purchase order or receipt. | Variable Name: CSC_COPY_SUPPLIER_PARVW Field Name: Leave it blank Number: 0000 Low: For example, YL |
| DELIVER_TO_PARVW | Mention the partner function to fetch the partner details. | Variable Name: DELIVER_TO_PARVW Field Name: Leave it blank Number: 0000 Low: For example, YS or YL |
| HANDLING_UNITS | Required to send packaging information with handling units in purchase orders to suppliers on SAP Business Network. When you enable the parameter, suppliers must enter the handling units in the ship notice they send SAP ERP from SAP Business Network. | Variable Name: HANDLING_UNITS Field Name: Leave it blank Number: 0000 Low: X (to enable) or leave it blank (to disable) |
| ORDER_ENABLED | Enable or disable the SAP Ariba provided enhancements for purchase order. | Variable Name: ORDER_ENABLED Field Name: Leave it blank Number: 0000 Low: X (to enable) or leave it blank (to disable) |
| PRINT_REL_CHK_ENABLED | Required to enable change purchase orders output based on print-relevant field settings. | Variable Name: PRINT_REL_CHK_ENABLED Field Name: Leave it blank Number: 0000 Low: X (to enable) or leave it blank (to disable) |
| REGIO_DESC_ENABLED | Enable this parameter to populate the Region / Regio description in the IDoc segment. | Variable Name: REGIO_DESC_ENABLED Field Name: Leave it blank Number: 0000 Low: X (to enable) or leave it blank (to disable) |
Note
For ARIBA_SRVMAPKEY: Please refer to lesson number 7 of this unit.
Prerequisite for HANDLING_UNITS: Ensure that you define the packaging material type and packaging material group, and then assign the material group to the material type in MM01 in SPRO. To do this, go to the transaction code SPRO and then navigate to the SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Logistics – General > Handling Unit Management > Basics setting.
For DELIVER_TO_PARVW: Ensure that you maintain the partner function for this parameter in the SAP internal format.