Maintain Message Types for Inbound Delivery
In this step, you define the message types for inbound deliveries.
In the SAP System, the message type denotes different kinds of message (in Purchasing, these are generally communications sent to vendors), such as purchase orders, inbound delivery messages, and urging letters (expediters).
To define a message type, you must enter the following:
- Message type
alphanumeric key, up
to four characters in length, uniquely defining a message type.
- Access sequence
Key for the access
sequence.
- Description
Text briefly
describing the message type.
- Detail data (only the most important items are explained):
- Multiple transmission
Indicator denoting
whether a message can be transmitted to the same partner more than
once.
- Transmission medium
Single-character,
numeric key determining the type of message processing (e.g. printout,
transmission as fax or e-mail).
- Time-spot
Single-character,
numeric key determining the time of message processing (e.g. immediately a
document is saved or with the next selection run).
- Partner role
Partner role
defining the recipient.
- Condition access
Indicator allowing
you to specify that the default message is to be determined via the condition
technique.
- Access TNADR
Single-character,
numeric key defining the conditions on the basis of which the print parameters
are determined (see the step 
Adjust Forms for Purchasing Documents).
Adjust Forms for Purchasing Documents).
Note
The values for the
transmission medium, time-spot, and partner role entered in the detail data
are automatically adopted as default values when a message record belonging to
the message type is created.
Fine-tuned control for message types
There is no fine-tuned control for inbound delivery messages.
Recommendation
- To create a new message type, copy a similar, already existing one and make the necessary changes.
- If you define your own message types, the key should begin with the letters Y or Z, since SAP keeps these name-slots free in the standard system supplied.
Activities
1. Check the
extent to which you can use the message types included in the standard SAP
system or to what extent you have to change them.
2. Define your
message types for inbound deliveries.