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Team Shopping Cart functionality in SRM7.0

Former Member
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Hi,

We are implementing SRM7.0 and we activated the Team Purchasing functionality. We have set the purchasing substitutes, for a requestor. We notice that Take Over function works only when the Shopping Cart is in Saved/Held status.

By reading the SAP documentation on Team Purchasing we were excited, but this Take Over functiona does not work for Shopping Carts in Awaiting Approval. That means if the Shopping Cart is partially rejected , the workitem goes back to the requestor , and the substitute cannot take over the shopping cart (when the requestor is on vacation)

Is there a way to Take Over SC from POWL by the substitute when the SC is still in awaiting approval?

Also we noticed that when the SC is completely approved and PO is created in the backened , the SC caanot be taken Over by the substitute. This might be required when confirmation / Invoice needs to be done in SRM and the requestor is on vacation.

Thanks

Sukumar

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Former Member
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Hello Sukumar,

It seems that only 'saved' SC's can be taken over:

The Take-Over button is only active for team shopping carts.

You can only take over team shopping carts that have the status saved.

Source: [http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm70/helpdata/en/0a/037e25c16a40bd98cd31069dd145f9/frameset.htm]

If the SC would be (partially) rejected the SC would have the status rejected. SC's with those statusses can be re-used via 'Old-SC and Templates' functionallity (by both the actual requester and if 'make accesible to substitutes' marker had been set by it's substitutes .

Kind regards,

Tim

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Tim,

Thanks for the Info regarding the confirmation by the substitues.

It is disheartening to now that Take Over works only for saved SC. This functionality may not be of much use in practical scenario. We may have to use the workflow substitution to act on those items when someone has gone on vacation.

Thanks

Sukumar

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Former Member
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Hello Sukumar,

I can shed a light on your last question:

Also we noticed that when the SC is completely approved and PO is created in the backened , the SC caanot be taken Over by the substitute. This might be required when confirmation / Invoice needs to be done in SRM and the requestor is on vacation.

For confirmations you don't require the SC to be taken over. Just marking the cart as 'make available for my purchasing substitutes' will suffice. Both the substitute and SC employee can post a confirmation for this cart after the PO has been created.

Your first statement is correct: If the SC has status awaiting approval the substitute can not take over the SC anymore. I don't know if there is a setting somewhere, havn't found anything yet. If the shoppingcart is rejected (different status) the actions available depend on your workflow: It can either be rejected = rejected or rejected = accept reject / edit rejected items.

Kind regards,

Tim