SUS Purchase Order Confirmation notification (or alert) is possible ?

[laurent_burtaire]

Hello,

We work on a SRM 5 release with a classic scenario.

We use the EBP-SUS supplier collaboration scenario (clients are different for SRM and SUS).

The purchasing document flow is describe below:

1- SRM Shopping Cart

2- R/3 Purchase Request (then, SRM SC history is updated with the PR number)

3- R/3 Purchase Order (then, an IDoc is sent to XI which generates a XML document sent to EBP-SUS in order to create the corresponding sales order - SRM SC history is updated with the PO number).

4- Then, supplier can confirm or reject the PO received. So, the SUS Purchase Order Confirmation is generated and sent back to R/3 ( via XI)

5- R/3 PO is updated with the posted PO confirmation (you can see the confirmation control key AB in the 'Confirmation' tab of the PO item concerned).

My request is to send a notification to the requester's mail client in order to inform him that supplier confirmed or rejected the PO.

I noticed that notification receivers definition is possible in SPRO, but only for "Process Purchase Order Response". I guess this notification is for BUS2209 (SRM POR) and not for BUS2232 (PO confirmation for SUS).

That's why i cannot use it: can anyone confirm this ?

As alternative, i tried to use alert management in SPRO (in the SUS client) for BUS2232 with sub-category of event SRM_SUS_PO_CONF in ALRTCATDEF transaction for SRM Alerts, but it does not work (even if i schedule report RSALERTPROC ).

Does anyone have a suggestion regarding my customizing ?

Finally, when PO confirmation is posted in R/3 (step 5 seen above), the SRM SC history is not updated with the PO confirmation number: is this the standard way ?

If yes and that the described notification (alert) customizing i indicated above are not possible, does it seem i will have to develop a specific notification process in R/3 when R/3 PO is updated with its PO confirmation coming from SRM-SUS ?

Thank you for your help.

Regards.

Laurent.

[Former Member]

Hello Laurent,

Looks like your intent is to notify the Shopping Cart requestor about the PO response that happens in the Back end system!

This looks strange but then it is really required if you have a common buyer in SRM and MM.

The following approach can be adopted:

1.Purchase Oder Response Message can be pulled out of the XI thro a technical routing into the SRM which will post the Purchase Oder response in the SRM ( SRM PO will be updated)..There could be some issues with the variance POR and the status of the POR but that can be handled..

I am unsure of the Alert Management.. but I heard there should be a way for that also..

You can raise an OSS Message for the same pls.

Regards,

Nagarajan

[laurent_burtaire]

Hello Nagarajan,

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>  Looks like your intent is to notify the  Shopping Cart requestor about the PO response that happens in the Back end system!
> This looks strange but then it is really required if you have a common buyer in SRM and MM.
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Requester being the initiator of purchasing document flow, custumer request is to alert him about supplier POR.

If i send my notification from R/3, i will get Requester name at R/3 PO item. Then, by a RFC call to SRM, i will get his data to generate my e-mail.

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> The following approach can be adopted:
> 1.Purchase Oder  Response Message can be pulled out of the XI thro a technical routing into the SRM which will post the Purchase Oder response in the SRM ( SRM PO will be updated)..There could be some issues with the variance POR and the status of the POR but that can be handled..
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I cannot do this: PO does not exist in SRM as we are in classic scenario.

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> I am unsure of the Alert Management.. but I heard there should be a way for that also..
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I carry on checking this solution

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> You can raise an OSS Message for the same pls.
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Don't have time for this and SAP will answer that this is consulting and not support

I will also verify if i can find a BAdI dedicated to SUS Purchase Order Response and use it to generate my e-mail from SUS client (or maybe some enhancements).

Regards.

Laurent.

[Former Member]

Hi laurANT

7. Purchaser as sender of the notification e-mail for purchase orders:

Scenario: All scenarios.

Function: Instead of the administrator user that is defined in SUS, the purchaser who is responsible for a purchase order is specified as the sender of the notification e-mail that is sent to the customers.

Note 1028264 - Consulting solution: Additional function for SRM-SUS

Our contact people in Consulting will provide you with further information (see below):

Verena Kahnert

Verena.Kahnert ATsap.com

SAP Consulting

Purchasing Solutions / SRM

SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG

Hasso-Plattner-Ring 7

D-69190 Walldorf

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Note 1325867 - Alerts with empty order number

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Note 1154848 - Alerts contain sales order number instead of PO number

[Former Member]

laurant :- for you it is very easy since you knew technical very well

venture this FM

BBP_SUS_NOTIFICATION_SEND

i believe you can massage this above std fm and do wahtever you want to throw..

muthu