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<DIV><SPAN class=222183308-03122001><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi
Andrew,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=222183308-03122001><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>have
you thought about using the Workflow Information System? You would have to set
up your own analyses, but you might save yourself some time writing a lot of
custom reports.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=222183308-03122001><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Stephan</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Rankin, Andrew AJ
[mailto:Andrew.J.Rankin@BHPBilliton.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 03,
2001 6:32 AM<BR><B>To:</B> SAP-WUG@MITVMA.MIT.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Workflow
reporting for Multiple large customers on one production
client<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all,</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would really appreciate any suggestions anyone
has to offer on the question of how best to manage workflow in a production
system that has more than one business running workflow. In this instance
these are two large and completely separate divisions of the same company,
however both will be running the same workflows, and almost all of these are
in the procurement / invoicing area. Both divisions want to be able to manage
and report on their own work items. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't have a problem with responsible agent
determination, everything will work fine on the run-time side of things. The
problems I see are that particularly when it comes to reporting, there will be
a lot of difficulty trying to figure out which work items belong to which
business. We are going to need to write customised reports that use an
attribute from the related business object (eg. company code) to figure out
whose work items are whose.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>One option I have thought of but am very sceptical
about, is whether there is a way of using work item number ranges to do the
job. If we could create rules that assign each work item to one of two number
ranges depending on which business the related business object belongs to, it
would make reporting a lot easier. I know it sounds far fetched, but is it
possible? Maybe there is something else I can use to assign a work item to a
business upon instantiation of a work item which can then be used in
reporting?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Many thanks for any ideas...</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andrew
Rankin</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>CSC Australia</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>EOM </FONT></P>
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