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]

Hi Laurent,

We are having the similar scenario. As far as i know there is no standard way of sending email notification to purchaser as soon as the PO order response is updated in ERP PO.

What we have done is that we have made some development in tcode ME2A to include PO rejection. PO rejection is identified as REJ-xxxxxxxxxx (SUS PO document no.).

This report already have delivery date and PO quantity variance.

Regards,

Ashish

[laurent_burtaire]

Hello,

As i did not manage to send my e-mail notification with SRM alert, i implemented method BBP_DOC_SAVE from SRM BAdI BBP_DOC_SAVE_BADI with filter on objet type BUS2232.

Inside this method, i look for all data i need to create mail subject and body.

Then, i use function module BBP_SUS_EMAIL_SEND to send my e-mail to the SAPconnect.

Regards.

Laurent.

[Former Member]

Great laurent. utilising the badi very well.

muthu