Blocked Invoices

[Kisloff, Philip B]

I agree with Kjetil about the MM invoice blocking. Oss notes 82820 and
0394370
may be of interest to give you background on what to expect when trying to
design
workflows around this area.
 
Phil
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Kjetil Kilhavn [mailto:kjetilk at statoil.com]
Sent: 05 November 2002 06:32
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Blocked Invoices
 
 
In 4.6C invoices can be registered either as FI documents directly or as MM
documents (with automatic creation of a corresponding FI document). In FI
there is a workflow solution where you can plug in your own logic as long
as it adheres to the interface. I have done that here in Statoil,
essentially just modifying the display logic, and it was not too difficult.
SAP takes care of the release just fine. MM on the other hand.... search on
LIV and on Invoice Verification in the archives and you will see that we
are not the only ones who have had problems. It seems the developers in SAP
didn't quite make it to the finish line before the release date. However,
there is better customizing of blocking reasons etc in MM, and of course
many other improvements.
 
Some of our problems _can_ of course also be partly due to the way we set
things up, but there are issues around security etc. that we have not been
able to solve (since we prefer to not modify the SAP code). Thus we are
blocking access to the MM invoice release functionality and performing all
releases on the FI documents where the handling of certain issues important
to Statoil seems to be better. Whatever troubles will be caused by having
thousands of MM invoices in incorrect blocking status will not be handled
immediately. We probably won't start archiving those for several years yet
anyway.
--
Kjetil Kilhavn
 
 
 
 
 
 
                    "Stephens, Monique S
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Invoices
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                    <Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVM
                    A.MIT.EDU>
 
 
                    04.11.2002 15:53
                    Please respond to
                    "SAP Workflow Users'
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Has anyone created an in-house workflow for blocked invoices?  We have seen
other products.  However, due to budget constraints, we are not able to
purchase a product.  When an invoice gets blocked we would like to send a
message to either the creator of the PO (in case it is a GR issue), our
purchasing department (for pricing issues), or the creator's approver (in
case the PO was created on our web tool; not able to enter GR on the web
tool yet).
 
We will be upgrading to 4.6C in February and hope to implement this
workflow
around that time.
 
Monique Stephens
SAP Analyst
Baylor College of Medicine
713-798-1349
713-798-1326 (FAX)
 
 
 
 
 
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