Carry Out Sourcing transaction in SRM

[Former Member]

Does anyone know if after sourcing a shopping cart in the sourcing transacton if the shopping cart can be re-approved? Our approvers want to approve the cart only after it has been sourced and priced.

Regards,

-Paul

[yeushengteo · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Triggering a SC approval in sourcing cockpit is not possible since the SC is already in the approved status then.

Why not have a follow-on (PO/CTR) document approval process in place where the approver has an opportunity to revoke/approve the final purchased item and price.

Regards.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Yeu,

Thanks for the informaion. The only problem is that we are using classic scenario in SRM and the PO gets created in R/3. We don't want users to have to do approvals in R/3.

From what you are saying there is no way to trigger a workflow after the shopping cart is sourced or to have the shopping cart to be routed to the sourcing cockpit before the approvals take place is that correct?

Regards,

-Paul

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Paul,

like said, check the Workflow WS14000044. If an employee releases an incomplete shopping cart (SC), it is inefficient to submit the SC immediately for an approval process. It is much better to have the SC completed by a responsible purchaser and only then to submit it for an approval process.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm40/helpdata/en/1c/df0e3bfd97304a94b064d6a87cf72d/content.htm

Cheers,

Claudia

[yeushengteo · Accepted solution]

Hi Paul,

Only SC in "Approved" status can be shown in the sourcing cockpit screen.

Please check the reader - Claudia suggestion to use the purchaser workflow if that could fulfill your business requirement there. Of course the workflow is pre-sourcing cockpit again.

If this still cannot be used, i am afraid the only option is to customize-built it

Regards.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the info everyone. Unfortunately we already use the completion workflow. We wanted to get away from that and source using SRM's sourcing transaction. We do appreciate the clarifications.

Regards,

-Paul

[Former Member]

Hi Paul,

in order to accomplish your requirement, use the Workflow "Completion of Purchaser". By standard this is the only workflow, which moved a SC to the Sourcing Cockpit for Sourcing and after the information is completed by the purchaser, the requisistioner can trigger the approval workflow.

Cheers,

Claudia