Approval Resets Price to zero

[Former Member]

Hi,

We have a problem in our shopping cart approval. For some materials, there is already a price and a vendor based on a contract. So once the shopping cart is created and approved, it will automatically be converted to a PO. What is happening is that once the shopping cart is approved, the price in the newly created PO becomes zero and it is routed back to the buyer for sourcing.

Why is it that the price resets to zero once the shopping cart has been approved?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

Hi

We have faced similar issues in our previous SRM implementation.

Which sRM version are you using ?

<u>Couple of rerasons can be possible here -></u>

<u>1) Missing Authorization to the user roles (Employee / Approver or Manager / Buyer role). Are you using standard SAP roles or using Z roles in PFCG transaction ? Ask BASIS to help you out.

2) BADIs implemented incorrectly.

Mostly it is due to following BADIs ->

BBP_DOC_CHANGE_BADI

BBP_ITEM_CHANGE_BADI

BBP_APPEND_ITEM

BBP_DOC_CHECK_BADI

Check the logic again carefully.

3) Organization structure settings in PPOMA_BBP for the user (Approving limit / Spending limit attributes not mainteined correctly for the users)

Or

Alternatively, in the SU01 transaction for the particular user (Employee / Buyer / Manager), in the Personalization tab, the Approving limit / Spending limit attributes not mainteined correctly.

4) Try de-activating all the Custom BADI Implemenatations using SE19 Transaction, (Name of the BADI starting with Y or Z ). Teh ntry again creating a new shopping cart with the same steps.

5) Check for Sourcing and pricing conditions as well.</u>

Incase it does not help, please raise an OSS message with SAP.

Do update me as well.

Regards

- Atul

[pvanhoove]

Hello,

A problem during the PO transfer. Check if there is any logs in SLG1 under user WF-BATCH at the time of the po creation. You may find some more information or explaination.

Rgds,

Pierre

[Former Member]

hi,

Pls refer note 550071.

Some info pertaining to your problem---

The following logic has been designed for price transfer when you transfer shopping baskets from EBP component:

a) If a valid source is assigned to the shopping basket item (for example, an info record or a contract), the price is transferred to the purchase order from the source of supply - unless, the item is created via a catalog and it contains the catalog price.

b) All other items (for example via the free form entry or items with a material number) received the price in the purchase order from the source of supply.

Due to many customer requests, the logic has been changed a little:

a) As soon as an item contains a price higher than 0 - regardless of how the item is created (free entry or catalog) - this is transferred to the purchase order.

b) An exception is items with a material number since the valuation price can never be the purchase price.

c) All items without an explicit price receive the price from the info record or contract.

Reasoning :

A price determination in connection with the assigned source of supply is not carried out since this would mean several remote calls, to determine the correct price. Both info record and outline agreement contain master conditions. This means that the valid price must be determined together with the quantity and the delivery date again (because of price-quantity scales, header conditions, validity periods and so on). A completely new price determination would have to be carried out each time if the user changed the quantity or the date again - this is not carried out for reasons of performance. Since the purchase order resulting from the shopping basket contains the correct price from info record or outline agreement, this only affects creation of the shopping basket and may under certain circumstances influence the release(Workflow).

However in case of local Purchase Orders it can be done without any performance overhead and hence is supported.

If a different behavior is desired, you can implement the BAdI BBP_APPEND_ITEM to get the price of a Shopping Cart item with assigned source of supply from the backend. However the price won't show up in the online transaction while the user creates the Shopping Cart. It is updated by the BAdI when the Shopping Cart is saved. Please evaluate the usage of this BAdI against performance concerns.

HTH.

BR,

Disha.

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