Extend End date after the end date has reached

Question

Hi gurus,
    We are using SRM5.0 on ECS with backend ECC5.0.
    We notice that after the end date of bid has reached even though there is a bid submitted by supplier , the purchaser still can extend the end date to a later date as long as he has not made the accept or reject choice.
    If it is the case, the purchaser can view the price after the end date reached and then extend the end date and maybe tell other supplier what the price the opponent has submitted. This is not allowed and should be penaltied.
    We just want to know how to avoid this in the term of system. Can we make the
end date field unchangeable after the end date has reached? or any other solutions?
Thank you in advance.
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        YE Wang

Answer 1

Hi,
As Teja and SAndeep mentioned,you can go for either the Approval or BADI approach.
In case you are implementing the BADI,you can make the concerned fields grayed out so no changes are made but then this would mean that <b>no changes
</b> can be done at all after the END date has been reached.
In case of workflow,you can have you starting conditions in which you will compare the end date and the system date .If same,you can trigger  a Workflow for approval of any changes to be done further.So even if the changes are made,the chnages are approved by a higher authority.
Another way would be to implement the "BBP_DOC_CHECK_BADI" to check whether the end date has been reached and then allow the user to do any changes.You can use the FM "BBP_PD_BID_GETDETAIL" to get the details of the BI and then check.In this case,you can additionally check for other parameters of the User like role,authorisation based on which he can make changes in exceptional cases.
BR,
Disha.
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