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Jun 26, 2018 at 09:49 AM

Purchases made by the requester

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Dear colleagues,

I have a question from a client. They don't use Ariba nor SAP SRM for indirect purchasing. I think the requirement described below is covered in these systems some way, but not in ECC. The client uses a custom transaction in ECC to create indirect PReq's.
In some cases the requester is going to do the actual purchase and the PO doesn't need to be communicated to the vendor (e.g. utilities or credit card purchases). The PO is created by the buyer and they check today the requester's comments in order to see if the order shall be communicated or not.
The client is looking for a way to automate this decision, i.e. that the buyer is not concerned about the question whether to communicate or not when they convert the PReq to the PO. The PO can even be created automatically via a background job and then the automation of this decision is vital.
Anybody else who has come across such requirement in ECC? How is it solved in Ariba or SAP SRM?

TIA
Raf