<div>Jocelyn,</div>
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<div>In standard EBP SC workflow the last task, after all approvals, is to change the status of the SC to 'Released' then the background job 'BBP_GET_REQ' will process all SC with 'Released' status to create a PO automatically. After that the workflow status is set to 'Approved' from 'Awaiting approval'.
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<div>Our business requirement is not to create a backend PO automatically upon final approval. but upon final approval the SC must appear in a buyer queue, which is similar to BBP_MONSC (shopping cart monitor). There the buyer will approve all or few line items of the SC . This feature is not available in
3.5 but we managed to get it working and are able to create a PO for each line item.</div>
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<div>Buyer, from his shopping cart monitor, would like to see all approved carts. Since I removed the 'final step' from the workflow, the workflow status remains as 'Awaiting approval' and it is confusing the buyer.</div>
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<div>My question is between PO creation and afer final approval, which I way can change the staus or tell the buyer that he could process the cart for PO creation.</div>
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<div>When went deep into the code, I found out that CRM_JEST has entries by GUID for each categaory such as SC, Confirmation..each GUID has several statuses that include 'Awaiting Approval' 'Approved' and 'Released'.</div>
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<div>I was wondering if I created a custom status for SC GUID, by using BBP_*STATUS*CHANGE* FM I can set the status. By changing to a custom status also helps me becuase the background job will never reprocess the SC which has been already converted into several POs.
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<div>I know I had to develop lot of workaround solutions to meet the requirements. It is working fine and business users are happy except for the status. </div>
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<div>Your input is highly appreciated.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
<div>Raju</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dart, Jocelyn</b> <<a href="mailto:jocelyn.dart@sap.com">jocelyn.dart@sap.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Raju,<br>Under no circumstances should you modify the status to a custom status!<br><br>EBP uses the statuses to determine what can/cannot happen to the
<br>document. Putting your own statuses into the mix is likely to have<br>serious and unexpected side-effects. This sort of stuff is also likely<br>to invalidate your maintenance agreement.<br><br>In practice your shopping cart should go to "approved" status while it
<br>is waiting for the po to be created. Check your approval workflow has<br>finished completed. In the check status results list the user can<br>expand the shop cart to see the items and whether a purchase order has<br>
been created yet.<br><br><br>Regards,<br>Jocelyn Dart<br>Senior Consultant<br>SAP Australia Pty Ltd.<br>Level 1/168 Walker St.<br>North Sydney<br>NSW, 2060<br>Australia<br>T +61 412 390 267<br>M + 61 412 390 267<br>E
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<br>To: <a href="mailto:sap-wug@mit.edu">sap-wug@mit.edu</a><br>Subject: RE: Change EBP workflow status to a custom one<br><br>Hi Raju,<br>Not sure whether this will work. Have a look at function<br>BBP_PD_SC_STATUS_CHANGE.
<br><br>I am curious to read that you had modified EBP shopping cart workflow.<br><br>I just want to ask you whether you faced any problem with 'Approval'<br>preview from SRM portal. When I created my own with copy of SAP
<br>template, the preview was not working as expected.<br><br>Thanks<br>Johnson zavier<br><br><br><br><br>Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:45:08 -0500<br>From: Raju Omkaram <<a href="mailto:romkaram@gmail.com">romkaram@gmail.com
</a>><br>To: "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <<a href="mailto:sap-wug@mit.edu">sap-wug@mit.edu</a>><br>Subject: Change EBP workflow status to a custom one<br>Message-ID:<br><<a href="mailto:f0b793290510120745v263ffa0ewc2b9a8dd9c8f2b61@mail.gmail.com">
f0b793290510120745v263ffa0ewc2b9a8dd9c8f2b61@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;<br><br>Hi,<br>I had to modify EBP shopping cart workflow.<br>Although the cart is approved by all apporvers the workflow status is
<br>still 'Awaiting approval' until a backend doument is created in R/3.<br>Is there a way to change the status 'Awaiting approval' to user defined<br>status before it hits the backend R/3?<br>Thanks<br>Raju<br><br><br><br>
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