# SAP SRM 7 EHP upgrade

Some notes for the customers going for Enhancement Pack (EHP) upgrade for SAP SRM 7.

A considerable percentage of customers have SAP SRM 7.0 in their landscape and would be looking forward for the latest EHPs.

At present SAP SRM have flavours of SAP SRM 7.02 (EHP 2) and SRM 7.13 (HANA EHP).

Please consider below points-

-Please evaluate the new functionalities you would be looking for and benefits of these
-Are you on the old workflow, it would good idea to upgrade to new workflow (BRF based, please see my earlier post on BRF)
-Any technical foundation upgrades in the Portal (Netweaver 7 to latest release), BI reporting, Interface (PI or third party)
-Upgrades in the SAP ECC EHP
for example SAP ECC 6 EHP 2 (SAP ECC 6.02) to SAP ECC 6 EHP 7 (SAP ECC 6.07)
- Are you the Industry specific customer - SAP SRM PPS

There are a couple of project methodology to achieve this (of course by the SRM functional consultant/Architect)-
1. Sandbox upgrade - Upgrade the Sandbox (or a separate system than Developement), access the functionality required
2. Workshops approach- Conduct the workshops, then upgrade in the development system.

Some customer may find some or other approach suitable based on their environments. Nevertheless, enhancement packs brings the technical and functional enhancements so should be treated as a separate project.

# SRM - Message output

SRM and the smartform for the message control for the Purchase orders- Extended Classic Scenario.

SRM offers multiple new mediums to connect/send the messages to the supplier.
The messages can be printed, email, fax, XML, EDI (other formats).


The other documents such as - Bid, RFX can be also printed based on the requirement.

The interesting is the SRM offers the printing of the shopping cart for the internal purpose. This could be treated like offline viewing of the cart. A few business scenariosmay call for a printing of the shopping cart.