Workflow: Earmarked Funds and Funds Transfers

Use

All earmarked funds can go through an approval process when using the SAP Business Workflow component. This allows you to differentiate assigned funds of the budget and to monitor and control budget usage efficiently. The standard supports a multi-level approval procedure.

Prerequisites

You enter the required settings in the SAP Business Workflow and Funds Management Customizing.

For further information, see the SAP Business Workflow IMG and the Funds Management IMG in the section Workflow settings for Earmarked Funds and Funds Transfers .

Activities

You must enter the following settings:

  • Maintain your company-specific organizational structure

  • Link the standard tasks supplied with the operator allowed

When searching for the standard tasks you can use the search term ‘FMRE’.

  • You must make the following entry for the Workflow sample:

Field

Entry

Object type

FMRE

Event

CREATED

User type

WS50000016

User FB

SWW_WI_CREATE_VIA_EVENT

Check function

 

User type FB

 

Destination

 

global

X

enabled

X

  • If you want to define the so-called role definition per document category (e.g. funds reservation, funds precommitment, funds commitment), which employees are allowed to process the earmarked funds, e.g. depending on the amount or on a Funds Management account assignment, (approve, refuse, change), you must enter the appropriate settings in the Funds Management Customizing.