SRM 7.1 - Parallel approval for BUS2201

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

1 - Is it possible to use parallel worklow in the Process Controlled Workflow for BUS2201?

     I need to send all approvers (cost center) a work item in parallel instead of one after the other in a fixed sequence.

2 - For the Shopping Cart (BUS2121) there is a implementation /SAPSRM/BD_WF_SC_RR_PA.

     Is there any standard implementation for BUS2201?

Regards,

Alexandre.

[vinita_kasliwal]

HI Alexandre

Logic for implementing is

If the necessary number of n agreements required for an approval is reached, the object is regarded as having been approved.

The object is regarded as rejected when the number of users rejecting it renders it impossible for the necessary number of agreements to be reached.

Example

A 2 from 4 approval procedure is implemented for a purchase order. A total of 4 recipients receive a work item for approval at the same time.

If 2 recipients agree, the purchase order is approved. Once 3 have rejected, the purchase order is rejected.

Activate the Customizing switch Parallel Approval with Overlapping Responsibility (SRM_701_APF_IN_PARALLEL) in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under:SRM Server -Cross-Application Basic Settings-Business Workflow -Activate Parallel Approval with Overlapping Responsibility

Check the below links for sample code and help by SAP .

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3408140

http://scn.sap.com/community/srm/workflow-and-user-vendor-org-management/blog/2013/08/04/custom-work...

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/6f/04683cf5e8fe67e10000000a114084/content.htm

Regards

Vinita

[ashish_shah]

Hi,

Parallel Approval is available from SRM 7.0 EHP1.

You need to activate an irreversible switch first to use this functionality.

for more information:Check this

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm702/helpdata/EN/c9/e6c2d976564cfe83ba850890d6f946/content.htm

Agent Determination - SAP Documentation

Regards,

Ashish

[Former Member]

Hi Ashish,

Do you say that the Customizing switch Parallel Approval with Overlapping Responsibility (SRM_701_APF_IN_PARALLEL) cannot be reverted.? But the note says that it can be reverted.

Just wanted to reconfirm. Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Karthik

[ashish_shah]

Hi Karthik,

Yes you are right , the switch is reversible as per SAP help link.

Regards,

Ashish Shah

[Former Member]

Hi Alexandre,

for your requirement you need to use decisision types 3 or 4, both not supported for BUS2201.

However, you can still simply use them. You might end up with some errors, especially the approval preview seems to have some bugs for which you won't get any help...

In addition I experienced a problem when reading previous process levels which use these decision types for BUS2201 --> the decision sets always contain all items when using the APV method, so actually it's not possible to see which item belonged to which decision set... But this shouldn't cause any trouble if you only do it for one step (no manager of manager for example where you want to keep the same decision sets).

There is no such BAdi implementation for BUS2201, so you will have to create a new one.

In your case, create a decision set for each approver and then assign the corresponding items to it -->One item will be contained in several decision sets and for each a workitem will be created.

I'd suggest to do a quick test implementation in order to see if it works for you... Like I said, it's not supported so you won't get any help. You need to keep that in mind.

If you do it anyway, then open an OSS message and ask why it's not supported. You're not the only one asking for it and the more customers start complaining, the likelier a solution will be implemented in the future (nothing planned so far).

Regards

Markus