EBP 2.0 - Creating Stock Transport Orders

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Neeraja,
I'd go with number 2 - not sure what you mean by how dynamic the product is?
There was a huge change
between 1.0B and 2.0x but you shouldn't see any more changes of that
magnitude in this area now so BADIs
should be safe.
 
Number 1 is what I call a performance drainer - a lot of workflow activity
for little result - i.e. you'd
have to raise an event for every PR, most of the events would be stopped as
they wouldn't need to be converted
to stock transport orders, then you have a process that is probably purely
batch to convert to stock transport
order.  Which means workflow administrators have to be super vigilant for
problems because no-one will be
readily aware if things are going wrong.
 
Number 2 hits the problem at source and avoids having to create more
workflows in the backend.
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (BBP, Ecommerce, Internet Transaction Server, Workflow)
SAP Australia
Email jocelyn.dart at sap.com <mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
Tel: +61 412 390 267
Fax: +61 2 9935 4880
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Sheth, Neeraja [mailto:Neeraja.Sheth at fnc.fujitsu.com]
Sent: Saturday, 12 May 2001 2:05 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: EBP 2.0 - Creating Stock Transport Orders
 
 
Jocelyn:
 
Thanks for the quick reply. We were looking at two ways to create stock
transport orders.
 
1) create PR in the background which raises a Workflow event which converts
the PR to stock transport order - Would we be able to get the Goods Receipt
functionality to work if EBP thinks it is creating PRs?
2) use BADIs to create the stock transport order - Is this advisable
considering how dynamic the product is?
 
I would appreciate your feedback on the two options. Is there something else
we could look at?
 
Thanks
 
Neeraja
 
 
 
 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dart, Jocelyn [SMTP:jocelyn.dart at sap.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 1:34 AM
> To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: EBP 2.0 - Creating Stock Transport Orders
>
> Hi Neeraja,
> I have done this in a BBP 1.0B environment.  It wasn't easy, but then
> nothing was easy in 1.0B.
>
> The main differences between purchase orders and stock transport orders
are
> the item category, and the supplying plant.  The item category should be
pretty
> easy to figure out (usually "U" or "9" depending on where you are using it
-check with
> your MM configurers), but you need to have some way of determining the
supplying plant.
> You'll need to sort that out for yourself - talk to your MM guys about how
this should
> work.
>
> You should be able to use the BADIs for creating pos/preqs in the backend
to do most
> if not all of your changes.
>
> Regards,
> Jocelyn Dart
> Consultant (BBP, Ecommerce, Internet Transaction Server, Workflow)
> SAP Australia
> Email jocelyn.dart at sap.com <mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
> Tel: +61 412 390 267
> Fax: +61 2 9935 4880
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sheth, Neeraja [mailto:Neeraja.Sheth at fnc.fujitsu.com]
> Sent: Friday, 11 May 2001 4:48 AM
> To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: EBP 2.0 - Creating Stock Transport Orders
>
>
> We are on SAP version 4.6C, and EBP 2.0.
>
> We have created an internal catalog - employees would like to use this to
> create stock transport orders, and use the Goods Receipt functionality.
>
> The way we understand EBP - it creates back-end purchase orders, a vendor
is
> needed, and therefore purchasing info records in the back-end SAP, in
which
> case the document is not a stock transport order - it would need follow-up
> documents like invoices which we would not like to get into.
>
> If anyone has created stock transport orders with EBP, or can give me tips
> on what to check, I would really appreciate it.,
>
> Thank you,
>
> Neeraja