Shopping cart waiting for approval status

[Former Member]

Hi,

We have a requirement in our scenario, where we are going to call approval process which lies in ECC once the shopping cart is submitted.

(Scenrio is Extended classic scenario),

Currently standard BRF SC one step approval is in function, when I remove the event link in SWETYPV, SC is automatically getting approved status and PO is getting created.

Our requirement is, we wat SC to be in awaiting approval but no workflow should be triggered, so that once approval is made in ECC we will update the SC status to approved via RFC call through FM and PO should be created as a follow on document to the SC.

Can some one suggest me to achieve this scenario?

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Krish

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Krish,

We have a requirement in our scenario, where we are going to call approval process which lies in ECC once the shopping cart is submitted.

(Scenrio is Extended classic scenario),

Once shopping cart is submitted then either it can be made as awaiting approval status or approved status with no approval workflow.

Currently standard BRF SC one step approval is in function, when I remove the event link in SWETYPV, SC is automatically getting approved status and PO is getting created.

Since you already have  one step WF active and you removed the event linkage in SWE2, you have made this shopping one step WF inactive and hence triggering no approval workflow which is equivalent to approved status.

Our requirement is, we wat SC to be in awaiting approval but no workflow should be triggered, so that once approval is made in ECC we will update the SC status to approved via RFC call through FM and PO should be created as a follow on document to the SC.

In standard SRM, once the shopping cart is approved, then PO BAPI is called in the ECC/R3 side so that PO will be created. If the SC should be in awaiting approval once submitted then you have to trigger WF. Once the SC is approved and a PO is created, you can trigger the release strategy and hence if there is a corresponding WF in ECC can be triggered.

But please rework on your requirements as

1) It is not worthy to have both shopping cart and PO WFs at the same time unless both systems are used by different entities

2) If a release strategy exist in ECC, then it is always after SC approval as SC approved status is predecessor step to ECC approval

3) Since you mentioned this as extended classic scenario, please look back on your PO approval requests in ECC as you master PO is in SRM.

Thanks,

RBEI SRM / Sri

[mithun_kukke]

Hi Krish,

I agree with Deepti's reply. The process followed by you needs modification to have the approval workflow in SRM. However you can get the approvers from ECC thru an RFC call (But they need to be created in SRM as well).

Regards

MKK

[Former Member]

Hi,

Ok, are you talking about PR transfer to SRM? Triggering PR WFL at SRM?

Please check the following link:

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/5082a622-7310-2c10-1a9b-ef31dd69a770

But note that this is a customer modification, not supported by standard SAP support.

Cheers,

Melina

[Former Member]

The design you are looking for the shopping cart is wrong.

if your cart is being created in SRM,the approval workflow should be trioggered in SRM and all approvers should approve the cart in SRM and not ECC.

You can design your workflow(custom) in SRM to get the approvers from ECC data.It makes no sense to make updates in SRM based on processes in ECC!

Are the users(approvers) who will be fetched from ECC not in SRM?

Process controlled workflow are very flexible and can be designed to get data from ECC also via RFC call.

Hope this helps.