Operation and Link to Application (SD-POS)
Use
When goods receipts are posted in the store, an IDoc of type WPUWBW01 is created.
When the information contained in this IDoc is transferred to the central SAP System, checks are automatically carried out. If exceptions are determined during these checks, the data relating to the goods receipt item(s) concerned is written to the workflow container. This data is transferred to a work item, which is displayed in the integrated inbox of the person responsible for processing the exception. You use the organizational plan to assign the people responsible for processing exceptions.
The methods for processing the work items are provided by business object IDOCPUWB, on which IDoc WPUWBW01 is based.
New Workflow Link (Workflow Template)
In the new version, workflow is executed using a workflow template. This contains the following single-step tasks:
When the work item is executed, a user dialog is called in a separate window. In this window, the prepared data for the incorrect goods receipt item is displayed from the relevant IDoc segment for which workflow was started. An error message relating to the specific problem is also displayed.
Depending on the exception that occurred, the person responsible has various options for processing the item. For example, the person responsible can reject, or post the data, or create an automatic purchase order.
It is possible to process partial quantities of the transferred quantities in sequence. Once a partial quantity has been posted successfully, a new work item is created for the remaining quantity, and you can continue processing with this work item.
Concrete posting of the item is carried out by batch input, which means that the corrected information is transferred to the central system in the background. If a problem occurs during processing, background processing is terminated so that the person responsible can intervene online at the point where the problem occurred. Background processing then continues.
Workflow is complete when there are no remaining quantities to be processed. At this point, the error log that is displayed in the POS monitor for this POS goods receipt item is deleted.
Old Workflow Link
The old version of workflow is executed with the following single-step tasks:
When the work item is executed, these single-step tasks are run in batch input, with the exception of the single-step task for processing quantity variances. For this step, a dialog box is displayed in which the person responsible can correct the quantity variances. Background processing is starts.
All the data determined by the system is transferred to the batch input. If a problem occurs during processing, batch input continues online, so that the person responsible can analyze the problem.
Workflow is complete when the item can be successfully posted.
The error log displayed in the POS monitor for the POS goods receipt item is updated once the work item has been processed successfully.