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Purchase Order Release/Approval Process – My Inbox Fiori App (Workflow and Organizational Plan Setup) Part 2

Part 1:

 

The Part 1 of this document can be referred from the below link

 

Purchase Order Release/Approval Process – My Inbox Fiori App (Workflow and Organizational Plan Setup)

 

Standard PO Approval Config Process:

 

As a standard Release procedure configuration, we will go in SPRO and go in the below node. The Release code, release group and release strategy creation is standard and nothing new is there in that.

 

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Release Group:

 

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Release Codes

 

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Select

1 – This option was there in SAP older versions as well

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Workflow:

In this, we wont be assigning the User Ids, rather we will be assigning the positions that we have created. If we select Position, automatically “S” will come in the field

 

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Press F4 on “Agent Id”

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So we can see the positions we created in PPOMW appears here for assignment

 

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If you observe, automatically, we get the numbers corresponding to the Positions created.System assigns a number automatically when we create a Position during organization set up

 

Save

 

 

Workflow Configuration

 

To enable the above configurations, it is imperative to have the workflow setup in the system. In the following steps, we will see how to set up the workflow for Purchase orders release.

PFTC – Task Maintain,

 

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Go in the Change Mode,

 

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In the above step, go to the “Trigerring event “ and select the line and click on “Call binding editor”

 

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Select the line as above and click on “Generate Automatic binding”

 

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On saving, System will ask for the TR


SWDD: Workflow Builder:

 

Go to SWDD and put the task as WS20000075 in there and see the below screen

 

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Click on 000093 Release of Purchase order, you will get the below screen

 

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Make sure the binding for TS20000166 is assigned under Task

Under agents, click the drop down and you will see the below options. Since we need to assign Position in our workflow, we will select “S” under Agents

 

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Click on Position that we created above and assign it here

 

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Select ACC_MGR and corresponding number will get auto populate here

 

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Agent Assignment:

 

Go to SWDD and select the step 0093 Release of Purchase Order

Click on Agent Assignment

 

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It will take to the below screen

 

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Since user was already assigned to Sales Manager in PPOMW, as soon as the position is chosen all the user assignments will come auto. Also we can assign the users to the position directly here.

 

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As can be seen below, we can assign the users directly here also

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My Inbox: PO Approval

 

Once the above setup is done, Purchase Order is created as below.

 

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PO: 4500000396 is created

 

Go to the “My Inbox” App

 

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PO gets Approved !


 

Trouble Shooting

 

Earlier the My Inbox App was showing the workflow items for approval, however the details of the PO was not visible. Due to this issue was raised with SAP and below was the SAP response.

 

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SAP Note Implemented

 

Also the below SAP note was implemented to fix the above issue

 

SAP Note 2291570

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      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Great blog Shrestha, this is a good new area for S/4 HANA

      Author's profile photo Avinash Goswami
      Avinash Goswami

      Hi Kumar ,

      Great document , just  a quick question can we assign multiple users to a particular position? And in that case object will appear in multiple inboxes and any1 of them can do the approval.

       

      Thanks

       

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      hello

      This works even if we do not provide ME29N, ME28 tcodes in authorizations.

      Please let me know.

       

      Thanks

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      So your scenario was embedded ? I am facing same issue/error in my inbox Approve Purchase Requistion app.

      Author's profile photo Alexander Chan
      Alexander Chan

      I could be wrong but I think the agent determination rule (20000027) from the task should automatically determine the agents based on the PO release strategy (i.e. based on amounts) and you would only need to over-ride if there is a specific case to do so.

      Author's profile photo Sandip Kurewar
      Sandip Kurewar

      Thank you!