All,
I’m designing new requisition release strategies for indirect requisitions at a chemical industry client. I’d like to know how often you have seen the following sorts of design before:
- Existing design: Item-based release with workflow, with three dollar levels. At the lowest levels, two strategies for each cost center approver (the one used is based on whether the desired vendor is foreign or domestic). Characteristics assign several cost centers to each approver. Strategies and codes are named for users, so we change configuration whenever someone changes jobs. The codes are linked to positions, which are attached to user IDs. Result: about 80 release codes and 140 strategies, taking a lot of time to maintain.
- Current redesign: Overall release, using 6 strategies and 6 codes based on dollar level and foreign vs. domestic. A user exit selects the approver for each code from a custom table that stores the user IDs for each cost center, with a custom maintenance transaction for the table.
- Now the client wants both individual approval by cost center owner and items with different cost centers on a single requisition combined with approval of the overall purchase. I’m considering item-based approval of requisitions, with the user exit and custom table, and adding overall approval of indirect POs with the overall approvers.
Thanks for your help!