Time Dependent Notification

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Murray,
I've worked through a similar scenario before around goods receipt/invoice
receipt
tracking.
 
The main thing is to avoid starting heaps and heaps of workflows that just
end up being cancelled when people do the right thing, i.e. you absolutely
do NOT want to start a workflow for every invoice or even every invoice with
a
quantity error, have it hang around until a goods receipt arrives and then
just cancel
because everything's ok now.
 
I would suggest you create a periodic batch report that assesses whether
open invoices
are in default and only starts workflows for invoices that have quantity
errors and
for which the goods receipt has already arrived.  That way you will only
start workflow
for the true exception situations where you need someone to act. You should
of course
evaluate all newly created invoices, and all newly created goods receipts
for which an invoice
already exists.
 
This will allow you to catch both invoice quantity errors during invoice
creation and
invoice quantity errors that exist even after the goods receipt has been
made.
 
For this particular scenario, this solution is simpler than creating complex
 
check function modules to evaluate both the invoice creation and goods
receipt creation events.
 
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (EBP, 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: Ronen at mccann-kb.co.il [mailto:Ronen at mccann-kb.co.il]
Sent: Tuesday, 26 March 2002 5:00 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Time Dependent Notification
 
 
maybe you can use the standard functionality of 'requested start'
for the 'process quantity errors in the invoice receipt process'
and use an expression for calculating the requested start date
 
this way the workitem doesn't appear in the inbox until that date
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: M I [mailto:mi_sap at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 11:30 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Time Dependent Notification
 
 
We are planning to do a workflow to process quantity
errors in the invoice receipt process.  Some of these
errors occur because the invoice has been sent in
before the goods receipt was even due.
 
The client doesn't want invoices that can't be
processed yet clogging up people's inboxes.
 
Is there a way to delay sending the error notification
until x days before payment due date or y days after
invoice posting date?
 
thanks in advance
 
Murray
 
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