PO releaser in R3 must be shopping cart approver

[Former Member]

Greetings,

We have a requirement to configure R3 PO release strategies such that the final budget/finacial approver of the originating shopping cart should be determined as the PO releaser.

We are using SRM 4 and ERP 2004 backend.

How can we achieve this?

Do we need to store and transfer the shopping cart approver login ID in the backend PO in R3?

In terms of the required R3 release strategy configuration, how would we config the release group so that the shopping cart approver is determined.

I realise that this question is largely MM, but because PO releaser originates from SRM, i thought its best raised in this forum.

Thanks

[yann_bouillut]

Hi Rozah,

You can send SRM userID in the R/3 PO using BADI BBP_CREATE_PO_BACK .

With the userID, you will be able to retrieve the user email address (in case the user does not exist in R/3).

I am not an expert in R/3 release strategy...

Kind regards,

Yann

[Former Member]

Hello,

You can send what you want to R/3.

But ID & eMail address is not enough, you need the user (SU01) to loggin R/3 and release the PO in R/3.

That means you need to create SRM requestors also in R/3 to use them in PO release strategy

(usually requestors don't have a user account in R/3).

Rgds

Christophe

[Former Member]

Hello Rozah,

When using SRM, WF engine is usually replacing R/3 release strategy.

Why don't you add the SC requestor as a final step of SRM approval WF ?

So you don't need anymore a release strategy in R/3.

Rgds

Christophe