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 Determining Process and Document Statuses

Use

When displaying a network of cross-system and cross-partner document flow, you can display the complete status from the point of view of the process tasks. Business process management controls the processes and the individual process tasks. The status of the complete process flow and the degree of processing of the tasks linked to this are known to business process management and managed there. The view of the process is thus task-oriented and does not have to be congruent with the expected events of Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) .

Prerequisites

You can only check the status of the document flow if you have modeled the document flow in such a way that the status exists as an attribute for the respective document.

Define the document types and assign a structure to each document type. Then use the Object Relationship Service to define role categories and assign the desired document types to the role categories.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) Start of the navigation path Integration with SAP Components Next navigation step Cross-System and Cross-Partner Document Flow. End of the navigation path

Features

In the business process, different documents that document the process flow up until now exist. Cross-system and cross-partner document flow relates the documents that have actually arisen in the different applications involved. Document flow creates and manages the network of documents from the applications and provides methods that enable them to be displayed. A network of documents is made up of the objects themselves and their links. The system keeps the objects redundantly to the actual documents of the original systems or applications in the document flow.

For the network of documents to be displayed and documented consistently (for all applications), cross-system and cross-partner document flow merges this information centrally.

Document flow is purely a passive tool that merges the documents that it receives from the applications into a network. Document flow does not actively report to an application.

The documents that document flow combines to form a network can have a status. Cross-system and cross-partner document flow takes this status and displays it, but does not manage it. When the object status of the documents is displayed, it is a case of a static snapshot. The application is responsible for transmitting the current status to cross-system and cross-partner document flow.

Activities

Make the following settings in Customizing:

  1. Define document categories.

  2. Define role categories.

  3. Assign the document category to the role category.

  4. Define link categories.

  5. Define the link category between two role categories.

  6. If you want to specify data for the related link when updating the document flow, assign activities to the related link categories.

For more information, see the IMG under Start of the navigation path Integration with SAP Components Next navigation step Cross-System and Cross-Partner Document Flow Next navigation step Maintain Object Link Model End of the navigation path and Define Document Categories for Document Flow .