Attachment transfer from PO to DSN - GOS / Business document

[venkatguru]

Hi,

SAP sends the GOS attachment from PO header to Ariba network along with the PO. This attachment is then available to the supplier on Ariba network for viewing.

Our customer uses GOS attachments to store internal documents and do not wish to share it with supplier. Is there a way to classify internal and external GOS attachments. Can we then through a BADI control which GOS documents are sent to the supplier

If instead of GOS, can customer choose to use Business documents storage (DMS) for their attachments. The Store Business document option is not active in Create PO mode, but only available after the PO is saved. This would mean that every PO would have to be changed after it is saved to upload an attachment. That would trigger a new PO output and a change PO output to the supplier.

Is there a better solution

Thanks

Venkat

[ayesha_nadeem]

Hi @venkatguru,

Hope you are doing well.

Can you please share if you were successful in stopping the header-level (GOS) attachments and allow the item-level (DMS) attachments to SAP Business Network? We have a similar requirement.

Thanks

[venkatguru]

We used ABAP to remove all the segments from the Idoc containing the attachment information. You should be able to do the same

[ayesha_nadeem]

Thank you so much for your response. That means we can remove the segment E1ARBCIG_ATTACH_HDR_DET from the segment E1EDK01 of the IDoc ARBCIG_ORDERS if it does not have a line number (if we are attempting to send the DMS attachments only and stop the GOS attachments) in the user exit?

[venkatguru]

Yes, you can remove the header level attachment from the Idoc segments and just retain the line level attachments. Thanks

[former_member132328]

Check if this can provide any guidance at all.

https://help.sap.com/viewer/63a2629582ae40f1b7ff0f8b9b9b1c6f/2102/en-US/f438d5f5162d427dab111eab6cd2...

It might help to post this question on the broader SAP community.

[venkatguru]

I have reviewed this link and as per the help Attachments are supported at the:

• Header level using the SAP Generic Object Services (GOS)
• Line level using the SAP Document Management System (DMS)

We need to send DMS documents from PO header to Ariba network

[Prem_Tracz]

Hi Venkat,

Your requirement is not supported in standard CIG add-on functionality.

You would need to consider customisations to get it working.