Validation
During validation, you can choose and apply validation rules for processing source documents or invoicing documents, and you can run checks on various objects. If the result of the checks is that clarification is required in invoicing, the system creates clarification cases automatically in mass processing. It is not possible to invoice the source documents or the contract account until these cases have been clarified, either automatically or manually.
Features
You can check the following objects in an invoicing process:
You can also run plausibility checks on source documents when analyzing invoicing orders and displaying billing documents.
Billing documents are source documents of the source document category INVBI
that were created in Billing. You can already check billing documents at the time they are created. You can check billing documents that arise from the data transfer of billing documents from external systems or that you modify. You do so in the inbound interface of invoicing in that is specially designed for this purpose.
You can make the following settings for this function in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable:
Define plausibility checks for source documents and invoicing documents.
Define an exception list for error messages that not only end invoicing processing for a contract account but also trigger generation of a clarification case.
Lock a contract account for invoicing processing so that clarification is necessary.