Elegant design for Invoice Processing without a current Vendor

[Erik Hedlund]

You can park an invoice on a dummy vendor and the change the vendot
later on, it works fine
 
I did this in 4.6c
 
Erik Workflow consultant
 
-----Original Message-----
From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of
Mark Pyc
Sent: 7. september 2004 11:03
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Elegant design for Invoice Processing without a current Vendor
 
G'day everyone,
 
Being a bit lazy here and just hoping someone can offer my a beautiful
solution without me having to think too much...
 
With Invoice Image pre-processing an issue arrises when the Vendor is
not
already in the system. As it's not possible to Park the invoice without
a
Vendor, workitem processing simply needs to be cancelled. As the image
is
the key to the process at that moment there is nothing meaningful in the
workitem description to allow searching for it once the Vendor has been
set
up.
 
The business user was hoping to park to a Dummy vendor, and process the
approvals before having to deal with the missing Vendor. In this way it
would be possible to speed the process and search for the documents.
However I don't believe it's possible to change the Vendor even on a
Parked
Invoice.
 
It would be possible to delete and recreate the Invoice as long as the
image assignment was handled within the Workflow, but I'm hoping for
something more elegant.
 
Any suggestions?
 
Have fun,
Mark