PO approval workflow to retrigger in SRM 7.0

Hi.
We are using SRM 7.0 in our company and using process WF for all approval processes.
The requirement is for an approved PO, the WF should get retriggered if SOME of the fields are changed in the PO.
What is the best possible way to achieve this? Please advice.
Thanks.
Anuradha.

Hi,
if your logic is based on standard fields and gets store in CDHDR and CDPOS then try use these tables to check..
Saravanan

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1) It's our business requirement that the last-change person of the PO is defined as the first approver in the chain. I tested with RR_EMPLOYEE and a hard-coded user BP number (my own), but got error "Strategy RR_EMPLOYEE did not determine any approver". Changing to any other user's BP number worked. So I am guessing the buyer himself can not be an approver. Since this is a business requirement, we wouldn't mind developing enhancement to work around this restriction. If you could point me to the place where this is checked, that would help me.
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100     ZEV_PO_SL_APPR_001     PO approval level 1     RR_EMPLOYEE     Specify Employee for Approval
200     ZEV_PO_SL_APPR_002     PO approval level 2     RR_MANAGER     Get Creator's Line Manager for Approval
300     ZEV_PO_SL_APPR_003     PO approval level 3     RR_MANAGER     Get Creator's Line Manager for Approval
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0V_PO_POTOTALVALUE >= 1,000 AND 0V_PO_POTOTALVALUE < 25,000
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Hi,
1) It's our business requirement that the last-change person of the PO is defined as the first approver in the chain. I tested with RR_EMPLOYEE and a hard-coded user BP number (my own), but got error "Strategy RR_EMPLOYEE did not determine any approver". Changing to any other user's BP number worked. So I am guessing the buyer himself can not be an approver. Since this is a business requirement, we wouldn't mind developing enhancement to work around this restriction. If you could point me to the place where this is checked, that would help me.
SAP recently released the consultant OSS note to handle this issue.. when the release the SRM 7.0 , SC requestor or PO creator ( Buyer ) cant be in the approval list.. later on they release a OSS note to handle this issue.. 1551561\
2) I have set up the process level configuration as such:
100     ZEV_PO_SL_APPR_001     PO approval level 1     RR_EMPLOYEE     Specify Employee for Approval
200     ZEV_PO_SL_APPR_002     PO approval level 2     RR_MANAGER     Get Creator's Line Manager for Approval
300     ZEV_PO_SL_APPR_003     PO approval level 3     RR_MANAGER     Get Creator's Line Manager for Approval
The corresponding expressions are simply checking against the PO total value, such as -
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0V_PO_POTOTALVALUE >= 1,000 AND 0V_PO_POTOTALVALUE < 25,000
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But when I checked the Approver list with a PO with total value > 50,000, only the first level is triggered and listed. And once approved, the PO went into "Ordered" status. But it should have gone through 3 levels of approval. I'd greatly appreciate it if you could point out what might have been wrongly defined in my configuration.
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Hi All,
We are using SRM 5.0 integrated with SAP MM backends.
We are frequently facing this problem, when a buyer creates a PO (in SRM) within his/ her Spending (Output) Limit, the PO approval workflow triggers and is not able to find an agent.
Although the workflow should not trigger as the PO value is below spend limit of the buyer......we are not able to understand this behaviour.
In such cases, the buyer is not able to issue the POs, since the POs show 'Awaiting Approval' status.
I can find such POs with SRM transaction SWI2_ADM1, but I can not do anything beyond that. I am not able to Forward or 'Complete Manually' such work-items.
Any idea how this problem can be fixed or if there is any SAP note available for same.......anything??
Has anyone faced this kind of problem before?? Please help.
Thanks,
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1. Can offline approval be used for item based shopping cart approval workflow?
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2. Can different line items be sent by mail to different mail boxes?
Yes
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- see above
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