The document flow is a mapping of sequenced documents in the system that belong directly to a business operation. The individual documents form document chains. The document flow gives you an overview of the sequenced documents and their status. All preceding and subsequent documents will be shown for each document you call up. In addition, reference documents are displayed.

The following objects are mapped in the document flow:

• Maintenance- and service processing

• Maintenance plan item
• Service notification
• Service order
• Maintenance notification
• Maintenance order
• Paging object (for example, a document)
• Time confirmation

• Materials Management

• Purchase requisition and purchase order
• Goods receipt, goods issue, and reversal movement types

• Quality Management

• Quality notification

• Sales and Distribution

• Service contract
• Contract
• Request for quotation
• Quotation
• Sales order and free-of-charge order
• Delivery
• Debit memo request and debit memo
• Returns and returns delivery
• Credit memo request
• Credit memo and cancellation of credit memo
• Invoice and cancellation of invoice

Only those documents are displayed which are directly assigned to an order.

All the items of the document are displayed from purchase requisitions, purchase orders, goods movements, and confirmations. Deleted items are highlighted in color.

Purchase requisitions, purchase orders, goods movements, and confirmations are assigned to the header or to the operation to which they belong. Under this purchase orders are assigned to the purchase requisitions to which they belong and goods receipts are assigned to the purchase orders to which they belong.

You can start the document flow not just from the order, but also from the sales document "sales order", "debit memo request", "request for quotation", "quotation", "contract", "returns" "free-of-charge order" and "credit memo request".