Another Release Strategy Question - Multi currency

[Former Member]

Hello,

I have been searching for an answer to my delema to no avail on this board, but no answer yet.

My problem:

We have a Purchase Req. strategy with approval by Plant, Cost Center, and Total PR Value.

The PR Value Characteristic is in US Dollars, but one of our companies is in Europe so we also need to have a PR Value Characteristic in Euros.

Currently we have:

Characteristic: Z_PR_AMT referencing field CEBAN-GFWRT. This is in US Dollars.

Z_PR_WERKS referencing field CEBAN-WERKS

Z_PR_KOSTL referencing field CEBAN-KOSTL.

Class: Z_PR_CLA with references to Characteristics: Z_PR_AMT, Z_PR_WERKS, and

Z_PR_KOSTL.

Release Group: A1 that is assigned to class Z_PR_CLA

Also, currently all PR's under $1000 (US Dollars) go through Workflow for release, and if the PR is over $1000 (US Dollars), requires a 2nd release.

But, since we have a company in Europe, we also need to be able to have a Release Characteristic for Euros so that PR's in Europe under 1000 Euros go to a new release strategy, and PR's in Europe over 1000 Euros go to a 2nd release strategy.

Can I add a new Characteristic to the Z_PR_CLA refering to the same CEBAN-GFWRT field, but use currency EUR (lets say Characteristic ZPR_AMT_E). Then in CL20N (Classifications) when I am adding the actual values, leave the value information blank for the European Amount characteristic and fill in the US Amount and assign to a US Release Strategy. Then leave blank the US Amount charastieric field and fill in the European Amount characteristic field for Europe Release Strategies?

Will this work?

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

No longer needed.

[Former Member]

You can try by defining same but you should create separate release strategy for both the company

[Former Member]

I'm going to give it a try in our QA system.

I'll designate Release Strategies U1 - UZ for the USA

and E1 - EZ for Europe.

I'll post results ... I was just hoping that someone had already done something like this and could give me a quick "yes" or "no" to it working.

[Former Member]

the EURO releae will aslo work with USD as long as you maintian the conversion with the currencies than you are fine but oyu can give a shot with two Char options.

[Former Member]

That is the problem we are trying to avoid. We do not want to have to put in a manually converted 1,000 Euros to US Dollars.

Currently we have a US Dollar limit for our European plant set at $1,474.30 which is to represent 1,000 Euros. But this number changes with the fluxuation of the currency rates.

So far in testing I do have 2 Characteristics defined for Currency, one for US Dollars and the other for Euros. Both Characteristics have amounts loaded in them (via the CL20N screen).

I do see in my debug sessions that there is a currency conversion to foreign currency in the LEBNDF01 include program, but since I have 2 Characteristics for Currency in the CL20N screen for this particular Release Strategy, this is messing up the conversion to foreign currency.

I still have more debugging to go.