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Function documentationUpdate of Invoicing Data to SAP NetWeaver BW

 

Invoicing provides the technical infrastructure for the extraction of invoicing data to SAP NetWeaver BW and for monitoring the extraction.

Prerequisites

For the invoicing process for which invoicing documents are to be extracted to SAP NetWeaver BW, you have activated the invoicing function Integration in BW Sales Statistics, and have assigned the DataSource to be used for the extraction to this process. You make both settings in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Convergent Invoicing Next navigation step Invoicing Next navigation step Invoicing Processes Next navigation step Define Invoicing Processes End of the navigation path. For details about activating the invoicing functions, see the section Activating/Deactivating Invoicing Functions. These settings ensure that extraction orders (DFKKINV_BWTRIG) are created during invoicing for the extraction of invoicing data to SAP NetWeaver BW.

For extraction orders to be written, a BW system has to be connected to the invoicing system and the DataSource has to be initialized.

When you start the SAP NetWeaver BW extraction, note that only extraction orders with reconciliation keys that have been closed (that is, no further posting documents can be created for these keys) are processed. Therefore, close the reconciliation keys used for posting the extraction orders to be transferred.

Features

The following functions are available:

  1. Creation of Extraction Orders

    When creating the invoicing documents, invoicing creates extraction orders for updating the invoicing document data in SAP NetWeaver BW.

    The extraction orders are created per reconciliation key; this means that the invoicing and billing data is updated in SAP NetWeaver BW together for each reconciliation key.

  2. Processing of Extraction Orders

    The data is extracted to SAP NetWeaver BW by means of a parallel mass run after invoicing. This run is based on the functions of the mass activities in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (see the SAP Easy Access screen under Start of the navigation path Convergent Invoicing Next navigation step Periodic Processing Next navigation step Extraction for Business Intelligence Next navigation step BW Extraction for Invoicing Documents (Parallelized) End of the navigation path). The program selects the extraction orders and writes the extraction-relevant data of the related invoicing documents to the delta queue of SAP NetWeaver BW. This means that the program supports a delta extraction in SAP NetWeaver BW based on the extraction orders.

    The preparation of the invoicing document data in the extraction DataSource is not part of the standard functions; it has to take place in either customer-specific or industry-specific form in the function module for event 2710. At the interface, this module receives an invoicing document and has to return the prepared SAP NetWeaver BW-relevant data of this document in an extraction structure.

  3. Monitoring

    You can use monitoring transactions to analyze the extraction orders and to clarify the cause of the invoicing documents not extracted. These transactions enable you to simulate the extraction and to analyze the extraction results (see the SAP Easy Access screen under Start of the navigation path Convergent Invoicing Next navigation step Periodic Processing Next navigation step Extraction for Business Intelligence Next navigation step Display BW Extraction Orders End of the navigation path).

The figure below shows the process flow of the transfer of invoicing and billing data to SAP NetWeaver BW.