7 SAP Business Workflow7.1 Technical ConfigurationSPRO -> SAP Reference IMG -> SAP Implementation Guide -> SAP Supplier Relationship Management -> SRM Server -> Cross-Application Basic Settings -> Business Workflow -> Proces-Controlled Workflow -> Technical Configuration

-> Customize SAP Business Workflow Automatically – done in SRM

Select “Maintain Runtine Environment” and chose “Perform Automatic Workflow Customizing”

-> Check Event Trigger Configuration – everything was already OK in SRM

-> Check Event Type Linkage

It was necessary to activate the “event linkage”

-> Generalize Tasks

Done for Task Groups 40000003 and 40000007

-> Check Task Generalization

Done for one Task – looked all right

-> Copy BRF Objects

Activate the Event Queue for WF Events via the Event Manager

Transaction SWEQADM

Go to ‘Event Linkages’ and activate ‘Enable event queue’:

Operation mode: dynamically

Set number of events per read access to ‘100’:

Time interval: 1 minute

Interval until event queue next checked: 5 minutes

Start of receivers: synchronous

Processing of events: sequential

Reference: recommendations as per Performance Guide SRM70.

7.2 Business Process Configuration

SPRO -> SAP Reference IMG -> SAP Implementation Guide -> SAP Supplier Relationship Management -> SRM Server -> Cross-Application Basic Settings -> Business Workflow -> Proces-Controlled Workflow -> Business Process Configuration

Now we customize the SC-Workflow via BC-set for automatical approval. This is done because at ABC, approval happens on PR-Level in R3.

-> Activate Sample BC Sets for Process Level Definition

7.3 Configuration of Account Assignment

SPRO -> SAP Reference IMG -> SAP Supplier Relationship Management -> SRM Server -> Cross-Application Basic Settings -> Account Assignment -> Define G/L Account for Product Category and Account Assignment Category

-> Define Objects in Backend System

7.4 Configuration of the Personal Object Worklist (POWL)By activating a Customizing switch, you can ensure that the personal object worklist (POWL) is automatically refreshed when you have created, changed, or deleted procurement documents within the POWL: Newly created documents are inserted, changed documents are updated, and deleted documents disappear from the POWL.

SAP Implementation Guide / SAP Supplier Relationship Management / SRM Server / Cross-Application Basic Settings / POWL and Advanced Search / Deactivate/Activate Automatic Refresh of the POWL

SAP Implementation Guide / SAP Supplier Relationship Management / SRM Server / Cross-Application Basic Settings / POWL and Advanced Search / Define Number and Intervals of Iterations for Automatic Refresh of the POWL

See OSS note Note 1440946 - Customizing for POWL automatic refresh

SAP Implementation Guide / SAP Supplier Relationship Management / SRM Server / Display

Status of Customizing Switches

Report: /SAPSRM/GET_BS_DATA to copy customizing data for POWL.

See also:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm70/helpdata/EN/80/c8cbf89a394eaaa59767d0faf958d3/content.htm

You must either start the report every time you make changes in Customizing for SAP ERP or schedule a job that runs the report regularly.

This job updates following tables:/SAPSRM/PRSEL_PT

/SAPSRM/PRSEL_TX

/SAPSRM/SH_COMPC

/SAPSRM/SH_PORG

/SAPSRM/SH_PGRP

/SAPSRM/SH_PLANT

/SAPSRM/SH_MTYPE

/SAPSRM/SH_MTYTX

/SAPSRM/SH_PSTYP

/SAPSRM/SH_STLOC

/SAPSRM/SH_MATCL

/SAPSRM/SH_MCTXT

/SAPSRM/SH_ASCAT

/SAPSRM/SH_PO_RG

/SAPSRM/SH_PR_RG

/SAPSRM/SH_PO_RC

/SAPSRM/SH_PR_RC

/SAPSRM/SH_SPECN

/SAPSRM/SH_MATPL

/SAPSRM/SH_SCNO

/SAPSRM/SH_MOVTY

/SAPSRM/SH_STOCI

/SAPSRM/SH_CONFC

OSS note 1064521:

The value of the system profile parameter "abap/pxa" (transaction RZ11) must NOT be "gen_local_in_dialog,develop" or "gen_local,develop".

In case it is incorrectly configured, it will trigger a short dump with error message: "No roll storage space of length 9728 available for OCCURS area."

RZ11: Correct profile configuration

7.4.1 Switch off POrg / PGrp validationSwitch of the message check the selected POrg against the selected PGrp:

IMG SRM Server Cross-Application Basic Settings Message Control Influence message control

Set message no. 019 - Purchasing group &2 is not assigned to purchasing organization &1

To type “- Switch off message”