BPS on WEB and Workflow Tool

Hello great people,
Im implementing SEM-BPS 4.0 in an insurance company. When I arrived here the BBP has been already delivered, and the description of the SEM-BPS functionalities in BBP were in a very high level and because of that Im facing some problems.
I have to decide whether I should deliver SEM on WEB or not as well as in what tool the workflow to implement should be developed. I had never worked with the WEB tools.
I have already searched for this and I know that Status and Tracking System only works in Web, and SAP Business Workflow works in WEB and GUI.
I would like to develop something that was a mix of the two tools (Planning in SAP-GUI and Approving in WEB). For you to understand my idea I will give you an example with all the steps.
1.     The Planning Manager sends an email to all the Controllers telling them that they can start the panning process.
2.     The Controller executes the Planning.
3.     The Controller Supervisor receives an email with the indication that the planning is ready for validation.
4.     The Controller supervisor analyses the data entered by the controller, and disapproves the planning. After this the Controller receives an e-mail with the correction instructions.
5.     The Controller executes the corrections.
6.     The Controller Supervisor Receives another email with the indication that the planning is ready for validation.
7.     The Controller supervisor analyses the data entered by the controller, and approves the planning.
8.     The Director receives an email with the indication that the planning is ready for validation.
9.     The Controller supervisor analyses the data entered by the controller, and approves the planning.
According to your experience, what tools do you suggest me to use?
I have to communicate my client what tool it will use in next Thursday.
Thanks in advance.
João Arvanas

Hello Mary,
I really have to implement a WorkFlow tool and STS apears the right tool even tought i had never work with it.
I'm starting to develop STS right now and i already have a problem that you may anwser.
The doesn't send the initial email notification. Do i have to make any addicional costumization?
thanks for your help.
João Arvanas

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1) I have not attended many SAP webcasts (just one on Solution Manager in the past few months) I'm planning on attending one this comming Monday on BPM.
2) I think understanding UWL / SBWP differences, advantages, limitations on one vs the other, would be an important topic.   Also more information on Extended Notiications
3) Challenges: Upgrades and impact on WF, Unicode and WF and having more WF ABAP OO objects delivered by SAP, other than the "Absence Notification" sample.
1.       I havenu2019t personally attended but as a company we give a webinar once a week and weu2019ve had some great attendance
2.       Technically I think weu2019re OK. We see the need to tell C-level execs where workflow / BPM can help them in businessu2026.
_3.       Workflow is becoming more and more obscure in the SAP landscapeu2026

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You can also try out Project Parfait. It's a new experiment from Adobe that’s currently online and free to try out and use.
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We are working on flat file upload in BPS thru guide 'How to load flat file in BPS through Web'. Can some one guide on how to debug the function modules used while uploading the data.
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sreenath reddy

Hi,
I have put an external break-point.
I have hard coded it in the coding of the function module itself.
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