Inbound documents are substance reports that were not generated in your R/3 System. They were generated in an external system (that may also be an R/3 System) and imported into your R/3 System.

When importing, a key file must exist for the report file. The key file defines the allocations to the substance report generation variant, the language and the substance.

You will mostly import inbound reports if you want to transfer reports that already exist in old systems, or if you want to manage reports that have been sent to you.

After being imported, the inbound report keeps the initial status as defined in the generation variant header, and is managed in exactly the same way as a substance report generated in the R/3 System.