Payment approval on F110

Today I’m going to talk about a solution that I have implemented for one of my clients. The requirement was to implement an approval process for the vendor payments. Basically my client wanted to review and approve the out going payments generated by SAP automatic payment program. For simplicity I have broken down the steps below.

Step 1

Implement the business transaction event 1120. Please refer to my post related to BTE for detailed information.

Step 2

Within the function module that have been created for BTE 1120, Implement the following logic.

As you can see from the above screen print, I have extracted the payment ID and the date from the accounting document header text.

I have created a custom tableZPAAPPROVAL to facilitate a simple approval process. But this can be enhanced based on the approval requirements.

Now lets see how this solution works. When a payment run is executed, system allows the payment proposal to be created but throws an error message when the user tries to execute the payment run.

Manager can approve the payment using the approval logic implemented. In my case, manager approves it using the table ZPAAPPROVAL. Once the approval is obtained, system allows the payment to be made.

I hope this post is useful to you. Please feel free to leave your comments.