What's new in Process Control 2.5?

Hi,
I'm looking for information about what is new in Process Control 2.5(compare to the 2.0 version)
Thank you in advance for your help,
Regards,
Julien

The key innovation of PC 2.5 is the user experience. The highlights of this innovation are:
A new user experience based on work centers which mimics the way compliance and business users actually work
A combination of top session management and sidebar navigation leads to cleaner, more intuitive design
Broad availability of relevant contextual information as appropriate, in the form of documents and links
Pervasive search functionality, with list filtering and sorting capability to deliver information as the user needs it
Automated testing
Delivered scripts cover Financials, Procure to Pay, Sales and Distribution, and more...
Rule parameters passed to scripts extract data from the source ERP system and return evaluation results with related issues or exceptions to Process Control
Query-based scripts use SAP Query to provide additional flexibility
Use of standard SAP and customer-created reports can be returned as part of evaluation and marked as requiring review to determine whether the evaluation passed or failed
ANd much much more

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Process Control In Workflow

Hi Experts,
I am new to workflow and trying to get familiar with all steps used in workflow.
Can anybody tell me whats the use of Process Control Step in Workflow.
If possible please provide some related document.
Regards,
Himanshu

Hi Himanshu,
I guess you already looked at the SAPHelp? All step types are explained there.
Regards,
Martin

Is migrating open application workflows to process-controlled WFL required?

Dear forum members,
We have upgraded an SRM system from version 5.0 to 7.0 (SP 7) and we have gone live in SRM 7.0 with the old application-controlled workflows still being used for old and new documents.
We are in the process of changing the workflow to the new process-controlled (BRF) workflow and this works OK for new docments in our test systems.
Can you confirm if we MUST migrate the old workflows to the new BRF workflow when we activate the new p-c workflow into the live system?
I would prefer to have the old application-controlled workflow continue for existing document approvals and use the process-controlled workflow for new ones.
My questions are:
1. Can we use both application and process-controlled workflows together at the same time (new docs use p-c workflow, existing approvals to continue to use A-C workflow while they run down)?
2. If not, can we migrate SC n-step BADI workflow to the p-c workflow (report /SAPSRM/PR_WF_MIGRATION_CFG implies not)
Any help or advice is appreciated as always!
Thanks a lot,
Nick

hello,
we are dealing with the same issue in a srm migration from 5.0 to 7.0.
We have a copy of the production system with a lot of open workitems based on application controlled workflows.
We build up new process controlled workflows and activated those for the new shopping carts.
The report for the migration (/SAPSRM/PR_WF_MIGRATION_CFG) of open workitems seems to be not sufficient, because
- all open workitems are going to be restarted, right?
we tried to approve old woritems from the powl, that seems to work. Simultaneously brf workflow works fine.
Right now we are wondering why it should not be possible to finish the old workitems application controlled and the new ones process controlled. Do we miss something?
Has anybody experiences based on customer projects?
kind regards
Carsten

Process Controlled Workflows VS Applicaiton Enabled Workflows-What to chose

G'Day All,
We are upgrading from SRM5.0 to SRM7.0
There are these bespoke shopping cart approval workflows developed previously. I have to do some sort of assessment to include
1) Why would we go for PCWs instead of just migrating the old ones in SRM 7.0 as business is pretty happy with the functionality they have got and are not interested in revising the workflow processes. Answer : Application enabled workflows are in maintainence mode so newer functionality would be delivered using PCWs.( is there any other justification ? )
2) Would we be able to map the existing workflow process to PCWs, here i need some pointers. I understand the PCWs are based on BRF though i don't know much about BRF( updating myself ). The key question i have is, whatever is there in bespoke workflow templates would i be able to replicate that using this i.e. a different technology. Since my exposure to either PCWs or BRF is not great so as a general rule i am asking, is it possible or are there any sort of technical limitations on what you can and what you can't do using PCWs which you could design using a normal workflow template?
I am sure this would be a common analysis which many of you might have done or are doing if you are involved in an upgrade.
An Interesting Fact : There is no documentation available on existing SRM 5.0 workflows as what differently they have done to standard. The only thing i know at this stage is they have a bespoke level 1 template which call different standard templates for n level approval process. The apporval process( agent determination ) is based purely on custom logic. I am not that worried about the agent determination as i know i could get that as rule evaluation in BRF. The crux for me is to understand how BRFcontrols or connects to workflow templates in this particular case and what permutation conbinations are possible.
So, i want to have a discussion on this and if possible some insight on all this new PCWs.
Hope to see some valuable comments.
Regards
Praveen

Hi everyone:
My question is the following.
We will implement SRM 7.01 with Process Controlled Workflow.
However in the manual is the following note:
Note: Even if you decide to use Process-Controlled Workflow in general,
there are a few workflows still on the old technology:
WS10400022 . Contract Alert Workflow
WS10000192 - Approval Workflow for Internal Users
WS10000209 - Approval workflow for new bidder/supplier
WS10000093/WS10000100 -Procurement Card Approval
Probably We will required some of this.
My question is if we are planning to configure process and application the correct strategy will be:
1.     Start the configuration with the application controlled workflow and then
2.     Follow with the change of the configuration application to process controlled workflow
3.     And configure the workflowu2019s in process.
u2022     Is there any problem when if we change the check application to process? Are there any chance that we loss the configuration?
u2022     Is there any problem in the functionality that both kinds of workflow (application-process) work at the same time?
u2022     If is possible to make change or maintenance of the application workflow?
Thanksu2019 a lot for all the help
Best Regards

Doubts with the new process-controlled worflow

Hi everyone,
We are working with a new implementation of SRM 7 in classic scenario. We have a pair of doubt about the new process-controlled workflow. Can you help us?
Our doubts are:
1) In SC there are a new button called "inquire", this is used to return the SC to the creator in order to change the SC. Can we uses this same button in central contracts?
2) In the documentation we read, we can configure when a notification can be sent. For example, can we configure than only when a SC or contract is rejected the system sends a notification to the creator of the document? Is this notification is a e-mail? If the WF has n-steps approvers and we configurate that SRM sends the notification to the approver, does it mean that this notification is sent to all the approvers?
3) When a SC is released, can it be modified?
We need your help.
BR,
Iván
Edited by: Ivan Moreno on Jan 25, 2011 10:28 AM

1) In SC there are a new button called "inquire", this is used to return the SC to the creator in order to change the SC. Can we uses this same button in central contracts?
"Inquire" button will be only avaliable if you have configured approval with completion in the process level.. you can configure this for contract as well
2) In the documentation we read, we can configure when a notification can be sent. For example, can we configure than only when a SC or contract is rejected the system sends a notification to the creator of the document? Is this notification is a e-mail? If the WF has n-steps approvers and we configurate that SRM sends the notification to the approver, does it mean that this notification is sent to all the approvers?
when a SC or contract is rejected the system sends a notification to the creator of the document? Yes.. system will send an email notification
Is this notification is a e-mail? Yes
If the WF has n-steps approvers and we configurate that SRM sends the notification to the approver, does it mean that this notification is sent to all the approvers? Yes
3) When a SC is released, can it be modified? SC can't be modified once its Approved..
Saravanan

Error during approval Process flow in Process controlled workflow

Hello Experts,
We are in SRM 7.0 classic scenario using Process controlled workflow.WE recently connected a new backend R/3 system to our SRM system i.e we now have 2 R/3 backend system connected to SRM system
It is regarding the two new additional account assignment categories that came into picture when we connected the new R/3 backend system to our SRM system, i.e. Asset and Network.
There seems to be some problem with the approval workflow for those SHC, that have such Acc *** Cats.
Please find below my obeservations:
- if you have just one line item in the SHC, and this item is either booked on Asset or on Network, than everything goes fine. After the Acc *** approval, the PR is created in R/3
- if you have SC with a mix between an "old" Acc *** Cat (Cost Centre, WBS and Order) and one of the "new" Acc *** Cats, than the workflow is not working as required --- the manager, that is responsible for the accounting approval of the two positions (e.g Cost Centre and Asset) gets only one work item in his approval overview --- in that work item, the two positions are there, but the Asset one is grayed out --- so, the Manager approves only the Cost Centre positions and than the SC is no longer with the approver --- if you observe the SC now from the requisitioner point of view, the status of the line items in the approval process overview of both(!) lines is "approved", but the overall status of the SC is still "in approval"
Can you all experts plz let us know why this is happening and how this can be resolved?
Any pointers will be highly appreciated.
Thanks & Regards,
RKS

Hi,
What is Resp. Resolver Name and Decision Type in your Process Level Definition? Did you create custom agent BADI implementation?
Regards,
Masa

Process Controlled WF for Shopping Cart

Hi,
We have implemented process controlled workflow for shopping cart approval.
1. Created a bespoke schema for the approval process
2. Defined 5 process levels in the schema
3. changed the BRF event at the schema evaluation level. It now
contains a constant with the name of new schema create in step 1.
4. Decision set used is item based approval for partial documents (Type 4)
4. The first process level is get the technical approval from bespoke
table based on material group. For that we have first created a
Responsibility Resolver Name - ZTECHNICAL_APPROVER.
We have implemented the BADI - /SAPSRM/BD_WF_RESP_RESOLVER. Assigned
the filter as BUS2121 and ZTECHNICAL_APPROVER.
5. Now we have placed the external debugger in BADi. when we create
the shopping cart the flow doesn't stop at the break point. The item
reaches to the last step of Automatic approval (Rejected).
6. We think that schema is getting evaluated, however the process
level is not getting called.
7. Before we created schema, all the carts wer getting "Approved" by
automatic step. In our schema the automatic step is "Rejected", hence
the carts are getting rejected.
Could you please let me know what could be reason for BADI
implementation not being called or is there any config step which we
are missing?

Hi,
I think your process level evaluation id is not true, that is the reason system skips the process level.. Can you check your evaluation event-expression code. What do you see in SLG1? For testing purpose change the evaluation id to 0EV000 and check. Make Sure you debug through the user(requester) that you are creating the SC. Please test and let me know...
Saravanan

What's New in Audition 3.0?

Don't have time now to get into how they help, but I would just like to say that there is MUCH improvment in Audition 3.0...I'd like to say this because I've heard lots of grumbling on other forums about 3.0 not being an upgrade at all over the previous versions 1.5 or 2.0, this is completely false, for me in particular the improvement in MT View (editing: collectively trimming, duplicate entire track and fading improvements) are indispensable.
and most people don't even mention any improvement aside from spectral view (which is pretty big in itself, isn't it?) spot healing etc...which I haven't even used yet.
I just want to say, they definetly made some good improvements, while they may not be overwhelming to some they are entirely useful in my situation and I think for most people they would come to see they are definite improvements if they used it long enough.
Getting started / New features
What’s new
Record and mix
Adobe Audition 3.0 is a powerful tracking and mixing application. Mix faster with new automatic crossfades, clip fade handles, and automation-editing improvements. Take full advantage of the latest hardware with multicore processor support and an optimized mixing engine.
VST plug-in manager
Quickly enable or disable specific VST plug-ins, optimizing performance. (See Enable VST effects.)
Auto crossfades and clip fade handles
Simply overlap clips to crossfade them, and adjust fade curves with on-clip handles. (See Fade or crossfade clips in a track.)
Improved multitrack editing
Efficiently edit sessions with these key enhancements:
Collectively trim and fade grouped clips. (See Grouping clips.)
Ripple-delete ranges of clips, instantly removing time gaps. (See Trimming and extending clips.)
Adjust selected ranges of automation points. (See Edit automation envelopes.)
Duplicate the contents of entire tracks, including clips, effects, and automation. (See Duplicate a track.)
Simultaneously view all input and output levels to comprehensively monitor a mix. (See Monitor levels.)
XML session support
Save sessions to XML format and other shared standards for multitrack applications. (See Save multitrack sessions.)
Mix down directly to Edit View
Quickly output a session directly to Edit View, without first exporting a file. (See Create a single audio clip from multiple clips.)
Video previews for surround mixes
Watch a preview in the Video panel while adjusting mixes in the Surround Encoder. (See Previewing video.)
Create and arrange
Adobe Audition 3.0 offers powerful and extensive looping capabilities, as well as support for VST instruments, making it easy to create and arrange great-sounding music. Improved processing, including the high-quality Radius time-stretching engine from iZotope and numerous new effects, gives you infinite creative options.
MIDI tracks and piano-roll editor
Import, record, and edit MIDI, and output it through VST instruments or hardware synthesizers. (See Composing with MIDI.)
New effects
Explore creative sonic possibilities with Convolution Reverb, Analog Delay, Guitar Suite, and other new effects. (See Effects reference.)
Radius time-stretching from iZotope
Access industry-standard algorithms in the updated Stretch effect, as well as the File Info and Audio Clip Looping dialog boxes.
Bitmap audio images
Export spectral graphs for detailed editing in an image-editor like Adobe Photoshop®. Or, import visually-oriented graphics as source material for experimental sound designs. (See Spectral Bitmap Image (.bmp) and Import a bitmap image as audio.)
Improved CD ripping
Automatically import track information from your favorite CD database. (See Extract CD tracks with the Extract Audio From CD command.)
Enhanced file sorting
Sort files by track number, or by the date they were opened or created. (See Change how files appear in the Files panel.)
Customizable workspaces
Tint panels and dialog boxes to suit your working style. Add favorite commands to the shortcut bar. (See Change interface brightness or tint and Display the shortcut bar.)
Edit and master
Adobe Audition 3.0 includes a full set of editing, restoration, and mastering tools that give you unprecedented flexibility and control. Comprehensive waveform-editing tools combined with innovative spectral frequency brushes let you edit with power and precision. The new Mastering effect, phase correction tools, and Top/Tail view make Adobe Audition 3.0 the ideal audio editing and mastering environment.
Spot Healing Brush
Quickly brush over artifacts to seamlessly remove them. (See Select artifacts and repair them automatically.)
Effects Paintbrush
Create free-form selections, and layer brush strokes to determine the intensity of effects. (See Select spectral ranges.)
Marquee pan and phase selections
Process discrete stereo information such as center-panned vocals in Spectral Pan Display or out-of-phase audio in Spectral Phase Display. (See Select spectral ranges.)
Play spectral selections
Play back selected frequency, pan, and phase ranges to precisely restore and process audio. (See Play audio linearly.)
On-clip fade and gain controls
Visually adjust selections or entire files. (See Visually fading and changing amplitude.)
Top/Tail View
Fine-tune loop transitions by simultaneously viewing the beginning and end of files. (See View the top and tail of an audio file.)
Mastering effect
Optimize audio for maximum impact with a series of professional processors. (See Mastering effect.)
Adaptive noise reduction
Quickly correct a wide range of variable broadband noise. (See Adaptive Noise Reduction effect.)
Graphic Panner
Visually adjust the stereo field to enhance spatial perception. (See Graphic Panner effect.)
Play lists
Organize and play marker ranges for live performance and broadcast. (See Creating play lists.)
Efficient file opening and saving
Specify default formats for Open and Save As dialog boxes, and quickly save groups of files to one format. (See System preferences and Save a group of audio files to one format.)

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It's a very helpful post because there is people who come to this forum when trying to decide to what recording software too purchase, and there's also people all over the internet who say that Audition is not better then Pro-Tools and more amateurish when in many regards it is more professional and has a better interface and GUI, especially if you're not doing too many tracks (less then 16 or perhaps more on a high end system). It's multi-track is easy and stays out of your way, has great automation, and some updated editing capabilities and has an excellent mbc that pro-tools does not have (maybe not excellent but very good)..and I believe pro-tools is a cpu hog doing certain things just like Audition is.
So people come to this site and I'm going to tell them the truth that it has been added to nicely since Adobe bought it and hopefully if people buy it will have another update to make the multi-track even better. It has a few bugs and downsides but so does pro-tools, I think the upsides are greater then pro-tools.
The only downsides are the midi is a bit lacking compared to other programs which have been in the midi-game longer, and that it does use alot of cpu for certain efx, and the multi-track is better in some ways but not as advanced in others in terms of sequencing and arranging, it could improve in that area, loops and stretching loops to match each other then being able to record how you bring the loops in and out in a sequence like ableton but in it's own way then it would rule the world forever.

How to map journal fields and whats is the better process type

/Journal/JournalSuspenseCostCentre     NULL
/Journal/JournalBalancingCentre     Lookup from Organisation ID
/Journal/JournalMultiCompany     u2018Nu2019
/Journal/JournalBatchNumber     NULL
/Journal/JournalNumTransactions     Total number of /Journal/JournalLine transactions
/Journal/JournalBaseDRTotal     Sum of /Journal/JournalLine/JournalLineBaseValue u2013 Debit Values only
/Journal/JournalBaseCRTotal     Sum of /Journal/JournalLine/JournalLineBaseValue u2013 Credit Values only
How to map journal fields and whats is the better process type idoc/proxies?please let me know
Journal Line
Multiple journal lines per header:
Schema Element     Data
/Journal/JournalLine/JournalLineCostCentre     Bank account control Cost Centre
/Journal/JournalLine/JournalLineAccount     Bank account control Account Code
/Journal/JournalLine/JournalLineMoneyTotal     Transaction Line Amount
/Journal/JournalLine/JournalLineVolume     NULL
/Journal/JournalLine/JournalLineDescription     Payee Name
/Journal/JournalLine/JournalLineChequeBookReference     NULL
/Journal/JournalLine/JournalLineMatchField     Cheque Number
NB Contra accounting entries should be posted to:
Schema Element     Data
/Journal/JournalLine/JournalLineCostCentre     Bank account control Cost Centre
/Journal/JournalLine/JournalLineAccount     Bank account control Account Code
/Journal/JournalLine/JournalLineMoneyTotal     Transaction Line Amount * -1
/Journal/JournalLine/JournalLineDescription     Payee Name
/Journal/JournalLine/JournalLineMatchField     Cheque Number
/Journal/JournalPeriod     Current General Ledger Period
/Journal/JournalYear     Current General Ledger Year

It looks you are new to PI,
you have to develop scenario end to end, by creating source data type and target data type(if you have XSD's not required),then use Graphical mapping (message mapping) to map source and target structures.
Search in sdn for one end to end scenario you will understand easily
Regards,
Raj

What is a Business Process?

What is a Business Process?
According to me it Depends upon client Requirements. ir Inq-Qt-Order-Del-Billing.
Correct me If I am wrong.

hi
Businesss Process : any activity or event which takes under business can be termed as business process..
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Inquiry -> Quotation ->Sales Order ->Delivery ->Invoice -> Return -> Credit memo
Transaction Codes
VA01 Create Sales/Returns Order
VA02 Change Order
VA03 Display Sales Order
VA11 Create Inquiry
VA12 Change Inquiry
VA13 Display Inquiry
VA21 Create Quotation
VA22 Change Quotation
VA23 Display Quotation
VA41 Create Contract
VA41 Change Contract
VA43 Display Contract
VF01 Create Billing Document
VF02 Change Billing Document
VF03 Display Billing Document
VF11 Cancel Billing Document
VF21 Create Invoice List
VF22 Change Invoice List
VF22 Display Invoice List
VK11 Maintain Pricing
VK15 Create Condition Records(Transaction used to enter multiple sales conditions)
VL01N Create Delivery
VL02N Change Delivery
VL03N Display Delivery
Inquiry
quotation
contrancts and Scheduling agreements
(Value contract or quantity contract)
Sales order
Delivery - Pick - pack - shipment
Post goods issue
Billing - release to accounting
[Check the document flow in table VBFA ]
Inquiry - A customers request to a company that they provide a quotation or sales information without obligation. An inquiry can relate to materials or services, conditions and if necessary delivery dates. The sales area that accepts the inquiry becomes responsible for further processing.
Quotation - A quotation presents the customer with a legally binding offer for delivering a product or providing a service within certain fixed conditions. This offer is legally binding for the company within a specified time period. A sales area can reply to a customer inquiry with a customer quotation or use it to refer to a business partner contact.
Sales Order - Request from a customer to a company to deliver a defined quantity of products or provide a service at a certain time.
The sales area that accepts the inquiry is responsible for completing the agreement.
Create Delivery:a. Picking - The picking process involves taking goods from a storage location and staging the right quantity in a picking area where the goods will be prepared for shipping.
b. Packing - Packing is part of delivery- and shipment processing. When you process a delivery, you can select delivery items for packing and assign them to handling units (HUs).
c. Goods Issue - As soon as the goods leave the company, the shipping business activity is finished. This is illustrated using goods issue for outbound deliveries.
Billing - Billing represents the final processing stage for a business transaction in Sales and Distribution. Information on billing is available at every stage of order processing and delivery processing.
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say for example below are some of the important business processes...
Free goods deetermination,
BOM processing,
Material listing and Exclusion,
Material determination,
Outline agreements,
Special sales order.
Free Goods Determination (FG)
Inclusive: - Giving a free item of same material is called inclusive.
Maintaining condition records for inclusive: -
Logistics
Sales and Distribution
Master data
Conditions
Free Goods
VBN1 Create
Enter the discount type [NA00] (Customer/Material)
Material: - enter the material, which we are giving free item.
Min quantity: - Enter the minimum quantity for which the customer how to place the order to get the free goods. [10]
From: - The free goods quantity specifies the amount for which free goods are granted in the sales documents. [10]
Unit of measure: - pc, kg, and cm.
Are free goods: - specifies how many materials we are giving as free [1]
Calculation rule: - specify pro rata basis
Free Goods: - specify [1] inclusive rebate with item generation
Exclusive: - Giving a free item of different material is called exclusive.
Maintaining condition records for exclusive: -
Logistics
Sales and Distribution
Master data
Conditions
Free Goods
VBN1 Create
Enter the discount type NA00
Select the button exclusive
Enter the material, min quantity, for, unit of measure, additional free goods.
Additional free goods: - specifies how many additional materials we are giving as free.
Calculation Rule: - pro rata 1
Additional material free good: - Specifies the other material, which we are giving as free.
M-11, 10, 10, 1, pro rata, 2, m-10 save.
Note: - In exclusive we can also enter the same material as free item.
Note: - inclusive takes 10 as 9+1 & Exclusive takes 10 as 10 + 1.
The free goods concept is based on condition technique.
SPRO
Sales and Distribution
Basic Functions
Free Goods
Condition technique for free goods
Maintain condition tables [V/N2]
Maintain Access Sequences
Maintain Condition Types
Maintain Pricing Procedures
Activate Free Goods determination [V/N6]
We need to assign the procedure to the combination of Sales Organisation, Distribution Channel, division, Document Pricing Procedure, Customer Pricing Procedure.
BOM (Bills of Material)
The item category group of a BOM item must be either ERLA /LUMF.
Defining BOM: -
Logistics
Sales and Distribution
Master Data
Products
Bills of Material
Bill of Material
Material BOM
CS01 Create.
Enter the Material
Enter the Plant
BOM usage [5] Sales and Distribution
Enter the component & 0.
In the component field enter the materials, which constitutes of the main material and enter the corresponding quantity.
For the BOM to be exploded in the sales document the following setting has to be done.
1) When the item Category group is ERLA, the item category of the BOM item is TAQ. In the definition of TAQ we need to take the value A Explodes single level BOM in the field structure scope.
2) If the item Category group is LUMF, the item category of the BOM item is TAP. In the definition of which the same above setting has to be done.
I) If the item category group is ERLA, it will bill the main item but not the components. For this the following setting has to be done.
The item category of the BOM item is TAQ, which is made relevant for pricing and item category of the components is TAE, which is relevant for pricing.
II) Item category group is LUMF bills components but not the main item. For this the following setting has to be done.
The item category of the main item is TAP, which is not relevant for pricing and item category of the components is TAN, which is relevant for pricing.
S & D, Sales, Assign item category group
Sales Doc Type Item Group USA Higher Level Item Item Category
OR ERLA -
TAQ
OR ERLA -
TAQ TAE
OR LUMF -
TAP
OR LUMF -
TAP TAN
Inter CompanyIV Sales
Material Listing and Exclusion
Material listing: - whatever the materials that are placed in listing for a customer he can access those materials only.
Maintaining Records for listing: -
Logistics
Sales and Distribution
Products
Listing / Exclusion
VB01 Create
Enter the Listing type A001and select the key combination.
Enter the customer and place the required materials in listing and save it.
Material Exclusion: -
Maintaining Records for Exclusion: -
Logistics
Sales and Distribution
Products
Listing / Exclusion
VB01 Create
Enter the exclusion type B001
Place the required materials in exclusion.
Note: - Exclusion is given preference over listing.
This concept is based on condition technique.
SPRO
Sales and Distribution
Basic Functions
Listing / Exclusion
Sl. No. Listing Exclusion
1 Customer / Material Customer / Material
2 A 1 A 2
3 A001 B001
4 A002 B002
Step 1: - Maintain condition tables for listing / Exclusion [OV06]
Step 2: - Maintain Access sequences for listing / exclusion
Step 3: - Maintain listing / exclusion types.
Step 4: - Procedures for maintaining listing / exclusion
Step 5: - Activate listing / exclusion by sales document [OV04]
Material Determination: - Substituting one product with other product is called material determination.
Maintaining the records for Material Determination: -
SPRO
Logistics
Sales and Distribution
Master data
Products
Material Determination
VB11 Create.
Enter the determination type [A001] (Material Entered).
Material Entered: - Here enter the original material which has to be substituted.
Material: - Enter the material with which we want to substitute the main material.
Reason for Substitution: - specifies the reason why the system automatically carried out material substitution.
To enter multiple materials as substitution select the icon alternative materials.
This concept is based on condition technique.
SPRO
Sales and Distribution
Basic Functions
Material Determination
Maintain prerequisites for material determination.
Create condition tables [OV16]
Maintain access sequences
Define condition types
Maintain procedure
SPRO
Sales and Distribution
Basic Functions
Material Determination
Assign procedures to sales document types [OV14]
Defining the reason for substitution: -
SPRO
Sales and Distribution
Basic Functions
Material Determination
Define substitution reasons [OVRQ]
Go to new entries and define
Substitution reason: - Specify the substitution reason [0001]
Description: - Advertising campaign
Entry: - If we check this field the system prints the name or number of the original material on the corresponding output.
Warning: - If we check this field the system displays a warning message before substituting the material.
Strategy: - Controls whether the product selection should occur automatically in the background or whether the alternative materials should be offered for a selection in dialog box.
Out come: - Controls whether the out come of product selection should replace the original entry or whether it should be recorded as a sub item of the original entry.
OUTLINE AGREEMENTS
1) Scheduling Agreements: - Its an outline agreement with the customer containing the delivery dates and the quantities. These are entered as schedule lines in the scheduling agreement.
We can create the schedule lines when we create the scheduling agreement or we can create them later.
We fulfill a scheduling agreement by creating the deliveries in the schedule as they become due.
Creating a Scheduling Agreement: -
Logistics
Sales and Distribution
Sales
Scheduling Agreement
VA31 Create
Scheduling Agreement type DS
2) Contracts: - These are the outline customer agreements that display when the materials or services are sold within a certain time period.
a) Quantity Contracts: - Its an agreement that your customer will order a certain quantity of a product from the company during a specified period.
The contract contains basic quantity and price information but does not specify delivery dates or quantities.
b) Value Contracts: - Its a contractual agreement with a customer that contains the materials or services that they may receive within a time period and Up to a target value.
A value contract can contain certain materials or a group of materials. [Assortment Module]
c) Service Contracts: - Its an agreement that contains the conditions for offering a certain service to the customer. We can manage rental and maintenance contracts in the standard R/3 system.
A service contract contains validity dates cancellation conditions price agreements and the information on the possible follow up action.
d) Master contracts: - Its a document in which we can group contracts together as lower level contracts. The master contract contains the general terms, which apply for all lower level contracts.
Creating Contracts: -
SPRO
Sales and Distribution
Sales
Contract
VA41 Create
Contract Types: -
Master ContractGK
QuantityNMS Contract
Value ContractZWK1
Value Contract GeneralWK1
WK2 Material relevant value contract
Service and MaintainSC contract
SPECIAL SALES ORDERS
Cash Sale: - Its an order type which we use, when the customer orders picks up the goods and pays for the goods immediately the delivery is processed as soon as the order has been entered and the billing is related to the order.
Creating Cash sale: -
VA01
Order type CS or BV and everything is same as sales order
Item Category BVN
Note: - In BVN the field Credit Active is not checked.
Note: - when we save the cash sale document the system will automatically create the delivery document. For this the following customizing setting has to be done.
In the definition of the document type CS we need to take the value X [Create delivery immediately if the quantity conformed for today] in the field Immediate Delivery.
Rush Order: - In the rush order transaction the goods are delivered on the same day as the order is placed.
When we save the rush order document the delivery is automatically created and billing is related to delivery.
Creating Rush Order: -
VA01
Document type RO
Item Category TAN
Note: - For the delivery to be automatically created the following setting has
to be done.
In the definition of document type RO take the value X in the field Immediate Delivery
Reward if Useful
Thanx & Regards.
Naren..

Acceptance by Requestor - Process control workflow

Hi All,
I have followed the below thread and configured the "Acceptance by contact person" BRF for status REJECTED. Now when my shopping cart is rejected , i still see the shopping cart as awaiting approval.This is sometihng strange as i expected soomething like "In Your Inbox". In the approval preview i can see it is awaiting acceptance from me. however i am confused as there is no acceptance button in the detail of the SC.
do i need to go to edit mode? if i go to edit mode the SC workflow will start from the beginning as it behaves similarly when we modify shopping cart awaiting approval .however acceptance would have deleted the shopping cart item that were rejected and workflow would have continued from that step onward.
please do let me know what i am experiencing is standard or thereis something wrong ??
Re: Enable work item to Requester at process End Check box
Cheers
iftekhar Alam
Edited by: Iftekhar Alam on Jul 5, 2010 1:51 PM
Also i have noticed that for completion step the rejection of SC i do not get the edit option . its only availbale for the approval type rejection step.

Hi Siobhan,
I am delighted to get OSS Notes from you. I have got reply in sdn faster than the oss message i raised for the same
However small calrification required.
1430274 Incorrect status display in POWL for par...
This note talks about application controlled workflow , we are using process controlled workflow. do you suggest implementing this??
1412458 Status "In your inbox" (2)...
i am going to implement this and test ,and would update after that.
1399239 New button "Show my Tasks" for document in a...
i am going to hold the implementation of this note , coz there is chance we might go for support pack upgrade and that would resolve and bring in additional functionaliy.
Cheers
Iftekhar Alam

Error in uploading process catalog of Process control

Hello,
When i am trying to upload the controls through process catalog of advanced upload in process control , i get an error message as Number of columns required 40, Found 39 columns .
I have used the same format what the tool has given as a standard format but still i get the error as i mentioned earlier .
I have done all the necessary possibilities of giving a blank at the 40 th column but still it doesn't accept.
Can anyone please help me in this regard so that i can go ahead in creating the controls instead doing manually.
Regards,
Raghu
Edited by: Raghu k on Jan 29, 2008 10:40 AM

Raghu,
Carefully review your data to make sure eveything lines up and is appropriate. Then generate a new template and make sure it has all components in it even though you might not use everything. Then use the 'transfer" function to transfer the data from the existing file to the new template.
Try that. Sometimes MDUG will throw strange errors is you reuse files or copy them. Start with a clean template and this will hopefully work. This has worked for me in the past when I'd see strange, never seen before errors.
Thanks.
Matt

Oracle 9i , what starts the server process

I'm reading the documentation about the server process which communicates with the client process eg sqlplus. But I'm not sure about how the server process is started. Imagine a server where the instance is not running . I log in via sqlplus /nolog , connect as sysdba and execute the startup command. According to the documentation it is the server process which starts the instance , but what starts the server process. Perhaps it is the sqlplus process. And if i log in using sqlplus over the network , I communicate with the listner, in this case is it the listener which starts the server process. ?
George

Hi,
Take a look:
"... Some user processes cannot communicate with the dispatcher, so the network listener process cannot connect them to a dispatcher. In this case, or if the user process requests a dedicated server, the listener creates a dedicated server and establishes an appropriate connection."
Oracle® Database Concepts 10g Release 2 (10.2)
Process Architecture
http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14220/process.htm#i21918
How Do Listeners Respond to Connection Requests
The listener can spawn a new process and pass control of the client session to the process. In a dedicated server environment, every client connection is serviced by its own server-side process. Server-side processes are not shared among clients. Depending on the capabilities of the operating system, two types of dedicated server connections are possible: bequeath connections and redirect connections. Each results in a separate process that handles client processing, but the mechanics of the actual connection initiation process are different.
Cheers

User budget in process controlled workflow

Hi,
Is it possible to use the 'user budget' option with the new process controlled WF ? If it is possible what are the necessary customization that need to be maintained ?
Thanks

Hi Sarvanan,
The requirement is to have approval process based on the user budget .
For ex if a user has been assigned a budget of $5000 per month, then for shopping up to a cumulated value of $5000 no approval is required($5000 spread across multiple purchasing docs ; not restricted to a single document) . However when the cumulated value of purchasing documents in a single month by this user exceeds $5000, then the documents is routed for necessary approval.

Process controlled workflows- basic questions

Hi,
I am new to SRM 7 process controlled workflows.
I need some help designing the process controlled worlflow for n step approval of shopping cart.
If there are n conditions to be checked for a cart before deetrminig the no of approvers,then does that mean for a BO(in my case Shopping cart),there will be n process schemas or just one process schemas with n process levels?
Also under each process schema,I see multiple expressions/process levels.Does the column "level sequence no" determine the sequqnce of the task in the whole approval process?
Please advise.

Hi Saravanan,
Thanks for the prompt response!
Based on your inputs,I think I need to go with option 2 as based on the data in shopping cart e.g. product category,spend limit,total value and a/c assignment catgeory,the no of approvers are determined.
The flow is like:
cond 1: check the prod category,if true,add 1st approver.
cond 2: check reqeuseter spending limit with total value fo cart,if true,add further approver or approvers
cond 3: check a/c assgt category,if true for a particular catgeory,add new approver or approvers using RFC call.
cond 4: check ship-to-address,if a local address,add buyer as last approver.
For a given cart,one or multiple conditions from the above may be true.But the sequence for the cosnidtions is as defined above.
As per my understanding,I need to create only one process schema for "Shopping cart" and then create different BRF expressions for each of the above conditions right?E.g. cond1>level1,cond2>level2 etc...Please advise.
Also under process schema,process level configuration,I see one column for "resp resolvername".What do I need to enter here?My understanding was that this entry will be responsible for determining the approver values...Pls confirm.
Also if I go with option 2,you said BADI SAPSRM/BD_WF_RESP_RESOLVER' will have to be implemented for determining approvers.So the logic for determining the approvers for each of the above conditions will be implemented in this single badi?
Pls advise.
Also in the event linkage,I need to actiavte only the two entries /SAPSRM/CL_WF_PDO/SRM_PROCESS_START and /SAPSRM/CL_WF_PDO/WS40000014 right?
Also regarding the workflow template,is WS40000014 the only template for all business objects i.e. Shopping cart and PO?
Thanks again for your time and inputs.

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