How to create a custom program for purchaing groups creation

[former_member569532]

Hi Experts,

We are getting high volume of CRS for the creation of purchasing groups.Every time we need to create in DEV then transport to  QAS and then production.We are reuired to send many days in these CRS.We are planning to develop a custom program for this.Just users have to place the file with plant,approval amount limit purchasing group.We want to give this responsibility to users.Kindly anyone advise how to achive this?

Thanks in advance.

[joydeep_mukherjee2]

Dear Sir ;

Please note that NEW Purchase Group Creation is a configuration activity and my any meany you are not supposed to create directly in production either by manually or by LSMW or any other upload program ,It will be a huge audit issue . I hope you got my point .

Best

Joydeep Mukherjee

[Juwin]

Not really an audit issue, as long as the process is well defined in the company.

Please read this discussion: https://scn.sap.com/thread/1874713#9923707

Thanks,

Juwin

[former_member569532]

Hi Juwin,

Thank you for your reply.But my requirement is to create a custom program to upload the file to create and change purchasing groups.

Rgds,

Anusha.B

[RaymondGiuseppi]

You can use SAP provided FMs to execute generated table maintenance functions like VIEW_MAINTENANCE_SINGLE_ENTRY.

To prevent transport requests pop-up and lock due to client status, use SOBJ to convert maintenance to current settings.

Regards,

Raymond

[former_member569532]

Hi Raymond,

Thank you for your reply.Can we use this FM in production directly.

[RaymondGiuseppi]

Once object is "current settings", yes.

[Jelena_Perfiljeva]

There were very valid concerns raised by Jurgen in the post that Juwin linked. I agree it's actually not a great idea to give this configuration to the users.

It only takes a moment to create/change a purchasing group, so I'm also confused why would anyone spend days on that. Either there is much more to this or you just need someone with better copy-pasting skills.

[former_member569532]

Hi Jelena,

We are getting a very high volume of CRs.In each month we are spending 15 mandays for purchasing group changes.Hence we want to develop custom program to allow uses to create/change the puchasing groups on their own.

Thanks,

Anusha.B

[Former Member]

Hi Anu

How about using a WebDynpro app to create a screen where the users can create directly in production you can setup an approval process for it if needed.

We created something called as business units which was a custom object in production directly

Do check this option as well this should update the table  T024

I found similar posts which talks about the same thing can you check these as well once?

https://scn.sap.com/thread/1874713

https://scn.sap.com/thread/1545094

OSS Note 135028 - Transfer IMG activity to current setting

Regards

Vinita

[Jelena_Perfiljeva]

OK, but what further replies are expected from the community here? All the options have already been mentioned above. If the expectation is that someone will provide a ready-to-use custom program then I believe it's unreasonable.

Unless there are other follow-up questions, kindly close the discussion. See this blog: http://scn.sap.com/community/support/blog/2013/04/03/how-to-close-a-discussion-and-why