SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3584077 - Re-triggering of Approval Flow upon Change of Unit of Measure in Purchase Requisition in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Symptom

  • In the client's system, the restart condition for the flexible workflow for purchase requisition is customized and the "Unit of Measure for Items" attribute is deselected for professional procurement and selected for self service procurement.
  • However, when the unit of measure in the purchase requisition is changed using the 'Manage purchase requisition professional' application, the approval flow is re-triggered.

Environment

  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
 



Reproducing the Issue

  1. Create PR using APP 'My purchase requisition- new'  and approve them.
  2. Change the unit of measure of the first PR  item using the 'Manage purchase requisition professional' application.
  3. The approval process is re-triggered.

Cause

System does not consider the App used for making changes in PR to restart the workflow.

Resolution

System shall consider the app that was used to create the document for validating the check marked fields  in SSCUI "manage conditions to restart the workflow of Purchase requisition"

See Also

Keywords

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, Purchase Requisition, Approval Flow, Unit of Measure, ME52N, Change, Re-trigger, Workflow, Customization, Professional Procurement,wrongly restarted the workflow , KBA , MM-FIO-PUR-REL-2CL , Fiori UI for Purchasing Approval (Public Cloud) , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions