Vendor Creation Workflow

[Metin Cansan]

Hi Stephens,

We have done a very similar case like yours. As Susan described you can use
standard workflow or can create your custom one. One way or another you also
need to customize sensitive fields for vendor master from SPRO under;

Financial Accounting-Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable-Vendor
Accounts-Master Data-Preparations for Creating Vendor Master Data-Define
Sensitive Fields for Dual Control (Vendors)

When a user creates a vendor master data or changes of it vendor account
becomes blocked (only for payment run). If you want to prevent changes
during confirmation process you need to use a BTE,
SAMPLE_INTERFACE_00001460 until confirmation is done through FK08.

Both LFA1 and LFB1 tables has a field called CONFS (Status of Change
Authorization). When there is a change in one of the sensitive fields CONFS
is updated with 1 (blocked). This may be a starting point of your workflow.


Cheers,
Melih
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Stephens, Monique S L <moniques at bcm.tmc.edu
> wrote:

>  I would like to apologize in advance if my question is very basic.
> However, I'm not completely familiar with all that SAP has to offer in
> regards to workflow.  Our technical analyst is more familiar with this
> aspect.
>
> We have several users that have the ability to create vendors (in Finance
> and Purchasing).  They have the ability to execute XK01 in order to do
> this.  We chose not to limit these areas to specific t-codes for Finance and
> Purchasing.  Now, with some new players, certain fields are not getting
> populated or not getting populated correctly.  One suggestion was to
> generate warning messages before saving the vendor.  I have learned that
> messages are normally ignored unless it is a hard error.  I would prefer to
> use some sort of workflow that when the vendor is created, it must be
> approved first.  I know there is an area in the IMG for confirmations but
> that relates to vendor changes, not creation.
>
> Is there a workflow out there so that when a vendor is created, it would
> route to a group of people for validation?  We are on ECC 6.0.
>
> Any help and direction would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> *Monique Stephens*
> Senior SAP Business Analyst
> Baylor College of Medicine
> 713-798-1349
> 713-798-1326 (FAX)
>
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