AW: Material Master WF

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Folks,
If you are doing workflows of this sort please also look at SAP's =
Master Data Management (MDM) solution=20
- early days yet but this does pretty much what you are after.  Worth =
investigating.
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart=20
Consultant (SRM, EBP, Workflow)
and co-author of the book
"Practical Workflow for SAP"=20
SAP Australia
email: jocelyn.dart at sap.com=20
phone: +61 412 390 267
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From: Thaddeus.Gorbal at pb.com [mailto:Thaddeus.Gorbal at pb.com]=20
Sent: Friday,5 September 2003 1:56 AM
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Subject: Re: AW: Material Master WF
 
 
Hello Tomasz,
 
Thanks a lot for your kind response. Your valuable insight to the =
subject
is very helpful and appreciated.
It will definitely help in the design an prototyping of my workflow.
 
I am really glad, we have the opportunity to pose questions to this =
forum
(thanks MIT!).
 
Best regards,
Thad
 
 
 
 
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Hello Thad,
 
MSTA and MOFF will be of the biggest significance for you. The first =
one
indicates which views have already been created. The  latter one shows
which
should still be created (at least -- which the system "thinks" it =
needs).
 
For raising the workflow -- forget ...ViewCreated, but use
BUS1001006.Created (or have your own event raised when a change =
document is
written for material master). Then respond to this event with your
workflow.
BUS1001006.ViewCreated is rather useful to cancel work items already
sitting
in someone's inbox.
 
Best regards,
Tomasz
 
P.S.1 By the way -- there's also a very useful MOFF business object. =
Have a
look -- it complements BUS1001006 pretty nicely. Looking back at the
workflow I've done I'd exploit it even more. Somehow the materials =
workflow
seems rather to evolve around material VIEWS than the material master
"header-level" record...
 
P.S.2 If you have any more questions, feel free to ask further. It will =
be
my pleasure to help
 
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Von: Thaddeus.Gorbal at pb.com [mailto:Thaddeus.Gorbal at pb.com]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. September 2003 18:11
An: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Betreff: Re: Material Master WF
 
 
Hi Claus,
 
Thanks for the input. There are a few tables containing the maintenance
status field. I am aware of MSTA, MOFF, MARC, and MARA.
 
The tricky part is that during the creation of a material there are =
four
bus1001006.viewcreated raised and we want to trigger the workflow once.
Then there are material extensions being uploaded to SAP and, again,
1001006.viewcreated is raised more than once. This picture seems to be
complicated farther by the lack of a plant number on the event/object
level.
 
If you or anyone else has gone through a similar exercise and could =
share
your ideas, before my engaging in coding complex attributes,  I would =
very
appreciate it.
 
Regards,
Thad Gorbal
 
 
 
 
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             09/03/2003 02:37 AM
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                                                          Re: Material
Master WF
 
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Hi Thad.
 
Yes, the maintenance status is a possible solution. I check on this in =
a
start condition of a material master WF.
 
Claus L=FCcking.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Thaddeus.Gorbal at pb.com [mailto:Thaddeus.Gorbal at pb.com]
Sent: 3. september 2003 01:13
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Material Master WF
 
 
Hello All:
 
I have a request to build a material master workflow which would =
control
creation of appropriate views by appropriate agents.
 
Material creation/extension requests are fed to SAP form an outside =
system
via Idoc/Ale. The event BUS1001006.Created seems to be good for =
material
creation request, but it is not raised for the material extensions to =
other
plants.
 
I have been considering using just the BUS1001006.VIEWCREATED event to
trigger my WF.  However, I am not quite sure how to control starting
workflow, since multiple such events are raised at the new material =
request
as well as the extension of one.
 
Your hints and tips would be very appreciated. It looks like the
maintenance
status could be useful.
 
 
Thanks in advance,
Thad Gorbal
Voyager WF Development and Administration