Uploading Foreign Trade Objects 

Use

This procedure describes how to select intermediate documents (IDocs) containing updated foreign trade data that you have received into your system and then save or "upload" this data to the corresponding data tables for use when you perform Foreign Trade transactions.

The primary activity in this procedure involves sorting the data you want to use and then saving it in your data tables for later use. You can perform this task manually or as a batch process in the background. The manual procedure is described below.

Prerequisites

To receive the IDocs into your system, you first need to perform several steps in Customizing:

  1. Define a port to receive the data from an external provider.
  2. Define a logical system that will be used to supply the data to you.
  3. Define a partner profile for the entry of the data to the logical system.
  4. Define a mail recipient (if you want to receive a mail notification in your inbox for each new IDoc).

A Customizing Wizard is available in the Data Service Cockpit that provides step-by-step instructions to carry out each of these configuration activities.

Procedure

If you have defined a mail recipient (see step 4 above), the system will notify you when data is available in your system for selection. You can also use this task at any time to select the objects manually.

  1. From the Data Service Cockpit, choose Import customs objects in the Service Functions section.
  2. Enter the appropriate information in the selection criteria screen and choose .

The system displays a user interface that enables you to execute all tasks pertaining to an upload of customs data. The screen is divided into three sections:

The worklist contains all data found based on the selection criteria.

All objects in this window on the right half of the screen will be copied into the corresponding data tables when you choose .

When you double-click any object in either window, the system displays detailed information in this section at the bottom of the screen.

  1. Drag and Drop: To move data from the left worklist window into the posting window on the right, select an object with the left mouse button and drag it to the right.
  2. Delete: To delete objects permanently from the worklist, select the object to be deleted and choose .
  3. To copy objects to be posted from the right window into the corresponding system tables, choose .

Other Features

Simulation

Using this function, you can analyze inconsistencies in the customs objects that might occur before you post them to the database.

Display of Detailed Information

When you display detailed information, features are available that enable you to sort data, search for specific information and tailor the display to match your requirements.