Preparing Export Documents for Printing in SD 

This procedure is used as the basis for printing billing documents in the Foreign Trade application component. Before you print billing documents in Foreign Trade (see Printing Export Documents in Foreign Trade), you perform this task to assign the output type, dispatch time and printer to an export billing document.

Prerequisites

Before printing export documents, you need to maintain areas in Customizing for Sales and Distribution.

To maintain Customizing for export documents for

See

Japan

Ready-to-Print Foreign Trade Documents: Japan

Europe

Ready-to-Print Foreign Trade Documents: Europe

USA and NAFTA

Ready-to-Print Foreign Trade Documents: USA and NAFTA

 

Procedure

  1. On the main menu screen, choose Logistics ® Sales and Distribution ® Billing ® Billing document ® Change.
  2. In the Billing document field, enter the number of the billing document on which you want to base the export document. Then choose ENTER .
  3. Choose Goto ® Header ® Output.
  4. Enter the output type, medium "print output", partner function, and partner.

 

Since the system does not automatically choose it from the master record, you need to specify the partner.
  1. Choose Communication method and specify the printer that you require in the Logical destination field. Choose Back to return to the previous screen.
  2. Choose Further data and specify the dispatch time from the following possible entries:

    3. Possible Entries for Communication Method

    1

    Send with the next selection run, for example, RSNAST00 online

    2

    Send with time specification, for example, RSNAST00 as background job

    3

    Explicit request, for example, with a function from the application

    4

    Immediately (in application update)

     

  3. To print the billing document from the Foreign Trade Communication/Printing Cockpit at a later time, choose dispatch time 3. This enables you, for example, to make additional changes to foreign trade data immediately prior to printing the billing document.

You can only make changes to forms prior to printing them if you have activated the field Form field changeable in Customizing for Foreign Trade. To activate this field, choose Sales and Distribution ® Foreign Trade/Customs ® Printing/Cmmunication ® Control Foreign Trade Documents ® Form data control.

If you choose dispatch time 4, the system prints the export document immediately when you save the billing document.