SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3546673 - How to remove Task : Assign Supplier to Purchase Request from user's Task List?

Symptom

Email for Task: "Assign Supplier to Purchase Request" is going to some users.

Customer wants to remove these users from the task list.

Environment

SAP Business By Design

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Purchase requests and Orders work center
  2. Select view Purchase requests-> open tasks
  3. You can see the task
  4. You are also receiving emails for the same in your outlook

Cause

This Task – "Assign Supplier to Purchase Request" is generally raised by the system when it cannot automatically determine a supplier for a purchase request item.

The task is relevant to all employees to whom the Purchase Requests view is assigned.

The user receives this task in the Purchase Requests view of the Purchase Requests and Orders work center. To respond to this task, open the task and choose action: Enter a supplier.

Once done, the system completes the task and removes it from the worklist.

The attributes of this task type are fully predefined and cannot be configured.

Resolution

You can complete the task or you can remove purchase requests view from the user's profile, then the task will not go to the concerned person.

Note: You also have a task subscription option in the Home work center -> Inbox. You can check which tasks the user has subscribed to and remove the subscription if not required.

See Also

Refer help document:

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_BUSINESS_BYDESIGN/2754875d2d2a403f95e58a41a9c7d6de/2dcb73b1722d1014ad85e8f49474642b.html?version=2405

Keywords

Assign Supplier to Purchase Request, how to remove user from task list, task subscription , KBA , AP-PRP-PR , Purchase Request , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions