Workflow Requirement - PO

Hi
I am new to workflow and i am having one requirement.
Business Objective:
Currently, the buyer can modify the per unit price negotiated with the vendor and input the new value whlie creating a PO. The organization intends to stop this practice and introduce an approval process for such changes.
Requirements:
The buyer, when creating the PO, will have an option of requesting an increase in the unit price. This request has to be enabled through a single click, leading to the following set of activities -
     a) He should have a field provided to him, where he can input the new price he has agreed with the vendor on
     b) This new price should go out as a mail through Outlook, to a predesignated id (or set of ids, typically the buyer's manager), with text reading ..
          "Buyer X has requested change in price of SKU 123, for vendor A, from its current price of P1 to the new price of P2".
     c) This mail will be in the Outlook inbox of the manager. The mail will have an "approve" / "reject" option with the option of providing comments (the "comments" part is not critical at this moment).
          - Once "approved" by the manager, the new price is populated in the info-record for the SKU-Vendor combination and an auto mail through Outlook, is triggered to the buyer who requested price change
          - If "rejected" a mail should go out ot the buyer who requested price change informing him of the rejection. This mail should go out automatically upon "rejecting"
Can anyone tell me how to proceed step-by-step, pleaseeeeeeeeee......
Thanks,
Sivananda

Hi SP,
Find a BADi which has the communication of PO table EKKO & EKPO.
In that find the fields where the PO old value and new value are stored. In that BADi call the function
SAP_WAPI_CREATE_EVENT and pass these values as event parameters.
In workflow get them back in a workflow container and send those values with the desired text as mail.
For sending mail to outlook, some configuration are to be maintained by basis.
Check SAP help for this.
Regarding get approve/reject options on outlook, there are three ways you can achieve it.
1. Outlook itself provides this option. you need to find a way to enable it through SAP and get the results back to workflow.
2. There is middle you need to use to get the user decision task in your outlook.
3. You can send a shortcut to user using which he can log into SAP inbox and approve or reject the price change.
Regards,
- Raj

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