Displaying the Invoice Document, Changing Payment Terms and Displaying the Document Change History 

In the following procedure, you display the invoice you created in the last procedure. In addition, you change the invoice payment terms and display the document again with the change history showing what changes have been made, by who and when.

In this process the invoices are called up individually. This process has to be run for each document individually.
  1. Select in the SAP R/3 System screen Accounting ® Financial accounting ® Accounts payable.
  2. On the Accounts Payable screen, select Document ® Display.
  3. On the Display Document: Initial Screen , enter the following data:

    4. Field

    Europe

    North America

    Document number

    Enter one of the invoice numbers you noted earlier

    Enter one of the invoice numbers you noted earlier

    Company code

    1000

    3000

    Fiscal year

    Current year

    Current year

  4. Select Enter.
  5. On the Display Document: Overview screen, select Document header.

    6. The R/3 System displays information about the user who posted the document, when it was posted, and which transaction was used.

  6. Select Continue.
  7. On the Display Document: Overview screen, place the cursor on the vendor item and double-click.

    8. The R/3 System displays the Display Document: Line Item 001 screen.

    You are currently in the display mode. To change the payment terms you must switch to the change mode.

  8. Select Document ® Display ® Change.
  9. Enter the following data:

    10. Field

    Europe

    North America

    Payt terms

    empty

    empty

    Days

    5

    5

  10. Select Enter.

    11. The R/3 System displays a warning, indicating that you changed the payment terms. Confirm the warning.

  11. Select Enter.
  12. Select Save.
  13. On the Display Document: Initial Screen select Enter.
  14. On the Display Document: Overview screen, select Environment ® Document changes.

    15. The R/3 System displays a list of all fields that were changed on the Document changes: Changed Fields screen. Note that although you only changed the payment terms field, the system automatically changed a whole series of fields in the background as a result of that.

  15. Double-click on Payment terms.

    16. The R/3 System displays the old and new value of the field.

  16. Double-click on this line again and you will see in the dialog box Details information of the user and date of the change.
  17. Return to the main SAP R/3 System screen.

Repeat this process to change the terms of payment for the other documents.