VMI: Creating and Acknowledging a Purchase Order From IDoc ORDRSP VMI (MM-CBP)
Purpose
Workflow is used to create and simultaneously acknowledge a purchase order during the inbound processing of IDocs of message type ORDRSP with message variant VMI. The IDoc may be sent by your vendor, for example, if the vendor wants to supply you with goods using Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI).
VMI enables a vendor to offer your company the service of planning requirements of the vendor's articles. For further information, see
Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) and
VMI: Generating POs for EDI Order Acknowledgements.
Process Flow
Workflow is started if a vendor wants to create a purchase order by EDI in your system as part of a VMI scenario.
As a result, an IDoc is transferred and used to generate and acknowledge the purchase order in your system.
The purchase order is usually created and acknowledged completely in the background. Work items are only created if errors occurred. These work items are displayed in the integrated inboxes of the people responsible for processing the errors.
Once a work item is executed, automatic checks are carried out again. If no further errors occur, workflow is complete.