Operation and Connection with Application Functionality (MM-PUR-VM) 

Use

Agreed arrangements in Purchasing, which have an arrangement calendar, can be transferred for extension to Business Workflow at regular intervals. The ways of doing this are described below. These measures should be carried out by a coordinator (e.g. a central coordinator or a coordinator for the individual purchasing organization):

  1. The coordinator uses the report offered under Material management ® Purchasing ® Master data ® Subseq. settlement ® Arrangement ® Extend ® Via workflow to manually select the arrangements and start the single-step tasks in good time before the end of the validity period. Each arrangement can only be extended once.
  2. If you need to start the report for extending arrangements using workflow at regular intervals (e.g. each week), you are advised to execute this report in the background. This involves two steps:
    1. First you must define suitable variants for this report (report name: RWEWU001), in which the extension date is defined as a selection variable, and is filled with the day’s date each day. You can also add other selection criteria as required.
    2. Then plan for the report to be executed in the background at the intervals you require.