Shop on behalf of functionality

Question

Hi SRM gurus,
We have an issue in the "Shop on Behalf of " functionality.
Our purchaser shops for the employee and is able to create a shopping cart.
But we see that the approvers meant for our employee is not visible in the approval preview rather the managers meant for purchaser is seen because the WF for the employee is not triggered.
Our requirement is when our purchaser creates a SC, the employee's managers should get this SC for approval.
Any suggestions.
We have nstep BADI WF ( 140000133) for SC and our abaper looking into the code says that there is no field which catches the employee except the one in the final description (EMPLOYEE 05.06.07 ). Any clues please.
We are on SRM 4.0, patch level 00008
Best reg.,
Sridhar.
Message was edited by:
        P.T. Sridharbabu

Answer 1

Hi
<b><u>This is quite easily possible.</u></b>
<u>Ask you ABAPER to fetch the Shopping cart details, user BBP_PD_SC_GETDETAIL function module.</u>
<u>The BADI  - BBP_WFL_APPROV_BADI  contains the parameters
OBJECT_ID, GUID and OBJECT_TYPE. Implement the BADI for the Filter type - BUS2121 (shopping cart).</u>
*--- Get the details of the shopping cart
  CALL FUNCTION 'BBP_PD_SC_GETDETAIL'
    EXPORTING
      i_guid          = l_guid
      i_object_id     = object_id
      i_with_itemdata = 'X'
    IMPORTING
      e_header        = ls_header
    TABLES
      e_item          = t_item.
<u>E_HEADER (ls_header here) structure will contain field called created_by (which will the Employee name - Requisitioner in that case).</u>
Hope this will defintely help.
Regards
- Atul