on 07-18-2013 6:15 PM
Greetings GTS Gurus,
We are on GTS 10.0, and I am trying to implement Brazilian ANVISA licensing in a single legal regulation. There are 3 potential licenses types that a single sales order item can trigger. They are AE (special permit), AFE (company operating permit), and LF (local operating license). For a single company / product combination, none, one, two, or three of the license types can be triggered. The goal is to keep the sales order on block until all required licenses have been assigned.
To classify products, I am using the control grouping to specify one of three groups. To classify customers, I have co-opted the military/civilian usage field and added several more values (for example, hospital, pharmacy, etc.). Unfortunately, there is no customer group for determination strategies. In the actual maintenance of the determination strategy, I trigger the 3 license types depending on the control grouping, the country, and the control class (ECCN). I use several exempt license types with certain military/civilian usage values to eliminate those license types I don't want to trigger.
The issue I am running up against is that once the determination strategy finds a valid license, it stops and does not check for any more license types. Also, once a single valid license has been assigned, the sales order item goes off of block even though 2 or more licenses are required. I have tried creating a three sequence determination procedure, where each sequence picks a single license type. And I have tried combining all license types in a single sequence step. I know that I can create three legal regulations to perform this, but the user community has said nay to this because of the overhead associated with having 3 legal regulations (classification and authorization). So far nothing I have tried has gotten me what I wanted.
So my question is, Is there a way to trigger more than one license type within a single legal regulation?
- Mike
Dave, Nicolas, and Dhilipan,
I was able to trigger three license types within a single legal regulation. All three license types act independently. If all 3 license types are triggered, all 3 are required before the GTS license block can be cleared on the SO and before delivery is possible.
However, I could not get the military/ civilian usage field to work with them. That feature was working before I implemented the 3 license types. So, I am guessing the those features are mutually exclusive. Unfortunately, I have run out of time, so I can't play with the agreement feature that Dave suggested. We will have to customize the code.
Below are the steps to set up 3 license types within a single legal regulation:
Hope this is informative. This probably could be extended to any number of license types.
-Mike
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Hi Mike,
Did you take a look at the "Agreements" functionality in that area? I've never actually tried it, but the on-line guide seems to suggest that it can handle your situation.
Regards,
Dave
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Dhilipan,
Thank you for the quick reply.
Yes, I checked the "Check Multiple License Types" under Control Settings for Legal Control. However, in re-reading the help shown below, I think I need to assign the authority as you suggested. I thought it meant security, which was not an issue. I will try and let you know. Thanks for the tip.
SAP Help
Use
If several license types are to be checked, the system must determine a valid license for each license type, otherwise the document is blocked.
To use this function, you must assign an authority to the license type to be checked. Otherwise, it will not be possible to determine a valid license type.
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Hi Mike,
I had the same requirement and issue activating the multiple license check, quick tip which can save your time (I struggle a lot on that one), the value in the issuing authority field has to be different between the licenses that have to be cumulated:
See initial post: http://scn.sap.com/thread/2100548
Since I did that it worked.
Regards
Hi Mike,
Please check the solution implemented by Nicolas in the below thread.
http://scn.sap.com/thread/2100548
I think it might be helpful for you to setup the authorities. You may have to do it under Maintain Custom code lists.
To be frank, i have never tried this. But please check and share the outcome. It will be useful for us in future.
Thanks
Dhilipan
Mike,
Did you activate "Check Multiple License types" under SAP Compliance Management->Legal Control- Control settings for Legal control.
And you will have to assign authority to the license types. You can maintain this under Customs management- Maintain customs code lists.
Please try this out and let u know the results. I don't have access to system currently to give the exact path. But i think you can still manage to find it out.
Regards
Dhilipan
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