Sending Payment Data per EDI (FI-AP-AP-PT)
Use
You can use the
Payment Program to generate a set of vendor open items (invoices) that you want to clear or a set of customer open items that you wish to collect. You can then transmit this payment data to your house bank per EDI.
Prerequisites
Application
For more information, in Customizing for Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable, choose Business Transactions ® Outgoing Payments ® Automatic Outgoing Payments ® Payment Method/Bank Selection ® Configure Payment Program
You must carry out this step before maintaining the partner profiles, since it is only when maintaining these profiles that you can select the EDI-compatible banks.
Proceed as follows:
a. In Customizing for Bank Accounting choose Bank Accounts ® Define House Banks.
b. Carry out the activity.
c. Enter a company code and choose Goto ® House banks.
d. Select the house bank you require (double-click).
e. Choose Goto ® DME.
f. Enter a partner number (the bank key for example).
You can branch to the partner profiles from this screen. For information on what you can define under partner profiles, refer to the section on IDocs.
Carry out steps a. through f. as described above. You can define the EDI-compatible payment methods from step f.
Since ISO codes can be transferred using EDI, your Customizing entries for the conversion of SAP codes into ISO codes for the currency, units of measure and the countries must be entered in full and contain no errors.
For more information, refer to Global Settings in the Implementation Guide (IMG) and the activities Set Countries, Check Currency Codes, Check Units of Measurement
IDoc interface
Enter the following values for the outbound partner profiles:
Field |
Value |
Payment order |
|
Message type |
PAYEXT |
Partner type |
B |
Port |
Subsystem (for example) |
Basic type |
PEXR2001, PEXR2002 |
Reference message for electronic signature |
|
Message type |
EUPEXR |
Partner type |
B |
Port |
Subsystem (for example) |
Basic type |
IDCREF01 |
Automatic debit |
|
Message type |
DIRDEB |
Partner type |
B |
Port |
Subsystem (for example) |
Basic type |
PEXR2001, PEXR2002 |
Activities
Payment Program to generate a set of items for payment.
The system generates a PAXEXT IDoc (the logical parenthesis in which all payment orders are located).
Ensure that no other payment medium programs access the same dataset when report RFFOEDI1 is running. When you schedule this program from the payment program, it is therefore started prior to all other payment medium programs.
If you were unable to carry out one or more payments by EDI, you can use report RFFOEDI2 to modify the EDI status of the payment documents. You can then resend payment documents by EDI, or create a conventional data carrier. For more information, see the documentation on report RFFOEDI2.
Dealing with exceptions
If you use standard workflow, ensure that an administrator is defined for the Workflow basic data, who the system automatically notifies of errors.