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Deadline monitoring is a workflow runtime system function that monitors the start and end deadlines for the processing of selected work items in an approval process.

The following deadlines are already considered in the workflow templates WS40000016 (Approval Workflow) and WS40000017 (Completion Workflow):

  • Latest Start Date/Time

  • Requested End Date/Time

  • Latest End Date/Time

Note Note

This function does not affect the monitoring workflow WS14500035.

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Prerequisites

You have set your deadlines in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management by choosing   SRM Server   Cross-Application Basic Settings   Event and Event Schema for Alert Management   Define Events  .

If you want to calculate your deadlines dynamically, you have implemented the Business Add-In (BAdI) Define Deadlines for Events (/SAPSRM/BD_WF_DEADLINES).

Features

If a certain deadline has past, the system informs the user of this with either a message or an alert, depending on your Customizing settings. Whether you choose to send a message or an alert depends on how critical the event is. Messages are reminders that are delivered by e-mail and do not require immediate action. Alerts inform the user about critical events. They contain a link to the affected document so that the recipient can react immediately. Alerts are delivered to the alert inbox in the Universal Worklist (UWL).