FI Prelim. Posting. Fax Invoice Receipt, Multi-Level Rel. Appr. 

Purpose

In this business scenario, you first simulate the receipt of an invoice by fax. This invoice is then automatically routed to an invoice entry clerk for data entry into the system. During invoice entry, the invoice is parked and routed to one, two, or three levels of authorizations, depending on the value of the invoice.

Alternatively, you can also enter an invoice that has not arrived via Fax, for example if ArchiveLink is not installed.

Special Notes

This script makes use of the ArchiveLink simulation functionality for processing incoming faxes or scanned-in documents. ArchiveLink is normally set-up as part of the for the SAP R/3 System front-end software (SAPGUI) installation procedure.

Four user IDs (for four positions in the IDES model company) are used during this business process:

Faxed Invoice Recipient

In the first step you simulate the receipt of an incoming fax. You use your normal IDES user ID to initiate this process.

Invoice Entry Clerk

WF-FI-C is used to enter the faxed invoice.

First Level Approval Manager:

User WF-FI-1 is used to release invoices for both single and multi-level approval.

Second Level Approval Manager:

User WF-FI-2 is used to release invoices for multi-level approval.

Account Assignment Approval Agent:

User WF-MM-3 is used to check and confirm the account assignment of the invoice.

The Preliminary Posting Configuration rules are in the IMG:

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Process Flow

You can find the data for this process under .

  1. Preliminary Posting of an Invoice: Simulating an Incoming Fax Document Using ArchiveLink
  2. Preliminary Posting of an Incoming Faxed Invoice
  3. Multi-Level Amount Approval Review and Release of Parked Documents
  4. Completing the Parked Document
  5. Account Assignment Approval