Academy · Procurement (Procure-to-Pay) · 200 Practitioner
Purchasing Approvals and Flexible Workflow
Explains approvals for purchase requisitions and purchase orders in SAP S/4HANA: why approvals are key controls, flexible workflow definitions, start and step conditions, recipients and restart rules, approving in My Inbox, classic release strategies still found in converted systems and how both coexist by document type, and how to test approval scenarios with boundary values and approval history as evidence.
- 46 minutes
- 6 lessons + quiz
- Procurement Practitioner, Key User, Process Owner
What you’ll be able to do
- Explain approval options and their role as controls
- Describe flexible workflow conditions, steps and recipients
- Approve, reject and forward items in My Inbox
- Compare classic release strategies with flexible workflow
- Test approval scenarios
Sources and further reading
- Setting Up Flexible Workflows in Purchasing (lesson) · SAP Learning
- Processing Release Procedures for Purchase Requisitions (lesson) · SAP Learning
- Configuring Release Procedures in Customizing (lesson) · SAP Learning
- KBA 3781915: PO flexible workflow restart behavior · SAP Support
- KBA 2989413: Release strategy and flexible workflow issues · SAP Support
- SAP Fiori apps reference library · SAP
- SAP S/4HANA product documentation (on-premise / Cloud Private Edition) · SAP Help Portal