Hello experts,
We have been working with SRM and ECC for a while now and we have the following scenario:
1. Product categories are manually created in ECC
2. The same product categories are created in SRM (again manually) and are assigned to a hierarchy using COMM_HIERARCHY
This has worked for us until now as no replication was needed. Now we are looking into implementing the Plan Driven Procurement scenario and for this we will need to replicate the product categories from the ECC so that the materials can be replicated as well.
The trouble comes from the old historical data that is available in the system. Like shopping cart, because users will not be able to use the "Old Shopping Carts and Templates" option. This is heavily used in our company.
What happens if you delete a product category and try to oder a new shopping cart based on an old one, for the basic user nothing gets copied, while the purchaser gets the message <No authorization to purchase on product category ">
So now the question is, what do we do about this?
Has anyone been in this situation before? Or how would you handle this switch from the manual categories to the automatically replicated ones?
Thank you!
Cata