Many Thanks. My response is late, as we went and researched your answer and following is what we found. Not sure of what I present is correct, maybe you could validate?
1) When the PR's (with DPAS_RATED" flag set to "False") are fully approved, it immediately creates a PO in Ariba and is carbon copied to ECC. We are unable to stop the Automatic process of "Fully Approved" PR from getting converted to PO automatically. If there was a way to break the sequence, and not have the fully approved PR'sin Ariba to automatically convert to PO (in Ariba) then your comment could be researched further.
So the Question is, Is there a way that these Ariba PR's which are fully approved, should NOT be converted to PO's automatically, but be converted to PO, based off some other mechanism?
2) From your feedback, it looks like PR's from ECC be IMPORTED as "PR's" in Ariba? (Is that a correct Statementt)?
3) Business may not approve the possibility of Duplicate PR's because budget is consumed against the Original PR's. Now after importing PR's from ECC (which create new Ariba PR's which are auto approved) should not consume the Budget once again?
Your response and the community's feedback is highly valued.
Many thanks,