SRM 4.0 Line Item SC Completion

[Griffiths, Mark]

Hello Mark,
 
You can do all sorts of clever stuff with the line item badi workflow -
the only bounds are your imagination ... and a large number of oss notes
of course, but given some patience you can get it to work pretty nicely.
 
On my last project I ended up finding all the required approvers at a
particular level by line.  I then generated a set of approvalguids which
were generated on a combination of userid and value.  I then looped
through and assigned the approvalguids to the relevant lines.  If a line
had more than one approvalguid then the necessary numbers of work items
were generated and all assigned approvers could approve or reject the
line.  The only minor restriction was that one approver could override
the decision of the previous approver but this can be controlled by your
process i.e. if you approve a previous rejection you will get
disciplined.
 
So, yes,  I think you can do what you want with the approvalguids
generation and assignment to lines.  I can't get anyone to pay for me to
go to ASUG so a nice warm beer in London will suffice.
 
Give me a call if you need to discuss in any more detail.
 
Cheers,
 
Mark
 
SAP UK


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	From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu]
On Behalf Of Mark Pyc
	Sent: 05 April 2006 12:41
	To: WUG
	Subject: SRM 4.0 Line Item SC Completion
	
	
	G'day all,
	 
	I've made some progress from my last query in this area. I've
now convinced the customer that the SAP recommended way forward is for
Early Buyer Completion i.e. prior to the Approval WF commencing. 
	 
	We will be implementing the Line Item Approval process (and yes
I've been thoroughly warned about how many OSS notes will be needed). My
query now is is it possible to have 'Line Item Completion'. 
	 
	The situation will be that Buyers (agents for completion) will
be determined by material groups. Since there will be no restriction to
prevent it there will be cases where a cart will require completion by
different buyers by line item. I can find no reference in the help to
suggest that this is possible. Although I can send the Workitem for
completion to multiple buyers, it would still be only a single Workitem
and a single buyer would need to complete it in it's entirety. There can
be an offline coordination between the buyers, but I want to confirm if
genuine line item completion is possible. 
	 
	FYI - the plan is to force all text items through completion as
well as any non-contracted catalogue items (a mini tender type process
will take place at this point). Sourcing cock-pit will not be used.
Classic will be used (not extended Classic). 
	 
	Many thanks for any insights - although there is no points
system here, I'll happily reward with beer at the Spring ASUG
conference.
	 
	Have fun,
	Mark
	
	 
	On 3/7/06, Mark Pyc <mark.pyc at gmail.com> wrote: 

		G'day Wuggers,
		
		The general recommendation (and the only way I've seen
implemented) is
		to invoke the Buyer Completion WF for incomplete carts
prior to 
		Financial Approval. My current client is contemplating
reversing this
		order so that Financial Approval will be confirmed
before the buying
		group will be involved in completeing the cart.
		
		I understand that this will bring in the potential for
changes at a 
		late stage which will cause the cart to run back round
the Financial
		Approval loop.
		
		Has anyone implemented such a scenario? What comments do
you offer?
		
		I believe this desire has come as a result from the
client previous 
		experience in EBP 3.5 whereby incomplete carts were
approved and then
		sent to the ECC/R3 backend as a requisition. Therefore
buyer
		completion took place in the form of conversion from
PReq to PO. In
		the new solution the intention is to perform buyer
completion in SRM 
		so that all carts are transfered as PO's. So although
they are
		implementing a new process the desire is to keep the
basic sequence of
		Approval prior to Buyer Completion.
		
		FYI - The intention is to use Classic rather than
Extended Classic. 
		
		Any comments??
		
		Somewhat less technically WF, has anyone implemented SRM
Purchasing
		which handles EU Article 32 compliance for Public
Purchasing?? This
		directive requires a mini-tender process where framework
orders exist 
		for the same Good or Service with multiple vendors. The
proposed
		solution here is simply to invoke the Buyer Completion
WF even though
		the cart will be technically complete.
		
		Again, any comments warmly welcomed. 
		
		Have fun,
		Mark
		


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