Messages in Logistics Invoice Verification (SAP Library - Logistics Invoice Verification (MM-IV-LIV))

Messages in Logistics Invoice Verification

Use

In Logistics Invoice Verification, you can also generate messages when posting an invoice. You can send messages either internally, to colleagues, or externally, to vendors. You can send these messages in the following ways:

Online with the next selection run
Using the function Output Message

Immediately on updating the invoice

As a background job by specifying a time

Define the required jobs for program MM70AMRA. When you run a job, the system outputs all the messages it finds that match the selection criteria.

For more information, see Message Control

Prerequisites

Function	Setting in Customizing for Logistics Invoice Verification
Define the messages that the system is to generate when an invoice is posted.	Message Determination ® Maintain Message Types
Define the text modules that the forms are to contain.	Message Determination ® Define Forms Message Determination ® Define Sender Details for Forms
Define at which time and with which medium the system is to send the message.	Message Determination ® Maintain Conditions

Features

Define Text Modules for Forms

You store standard texts for each company code that the print modules can output to fixed positions defined in the forms MR_PRINT or MR_REKL. The texts that you store there are used in the following print documents:

Evaluated Receipt Settlement document (MR_PRINT)
Settlement document for revaluation (MR_PRINT)
Invoice reduction document (MR_REKL)

You process the following text modules:

Text type	Items	Example
Header text	Output at top right of the form	Logo
Footnote text	Output as footnote text on each page of the form	Information on the company, bank details
Sender	Output above the address in the form	Company code sender
Signature		Not processed

If you use multiple languages, please ensure that you create texts for all languages used.

Generating Messages for the Following Functions

Function	Explanation
Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS)	After you run ERS, you should inform the vendor of the goods receipts you settled to allow the vendor to check the settlement.
Invoice Reduction: Correcting Quantities or Values	When you reduce an invoice, you should inform the vendor in a letter of complaint why you reduced the invoice. Manual invoice reduction: If you manually reduce individual items, you can list the items in the letter of complaint. Automatic invoice reduction: If the system automatically reduced the invoice, you can only give the vendor information in the letter of complaint about the total amount of the reduction.
Invoices with Variances	If an invoice is blocked due to price variance, you can send a mail to the relevant buyer so that he or she can check the order price and consult the vendor.
Consignment and Pipeline Settlement	When you settle consignment and pipeline withdrawals, you can send the invoices or credit memos created to the vendor.
Invoicing Plan Settlement	When you create invoices for the invoicing plan, you can send these to the vendor.
Revaluation	After you carry out revaluation, you should use the settlement document for revaluation to inform the vendor of the difference value determined in the form of a credit memo or an invoice.

See also:

Outputting Messages