Special Features of Current Data Transfer (SAP Library - FI Financial Accounting: Data Transfer Workbench)

Special Features of Current Data Transfer

Transferring Current Data from an External System

If you use an external system for Sales and Distribution or Materials Management, you can transfer the following data into the SAP System:

Postings from the external system, for example, billing data, in order to create an invoice from them or post the open items to Financial Accounting
Customer master data, if you process customers in the invoicing system
Vendor master data, if you process vendors in the external system for Materials Management

You then access the same master data in both systems.

However, when transferring current data, you only need to transfer those master records from the external system that have been added since the initial transfer.

For the master data that has already been transferred, you need only transfer the changes from the external system into the SAP System. These changes can be transferred using batch input, in the same way as legacy data transfer.

Transferring Current Data from Other R/3 Components

Data from other R/3 application components is transferred into Financial Accounting in the following different ways:

Interfaces

The data is transferred from another application and used to create documents for Financial Accounting. All the relevant checks are carried out in Financial Accounting. If an error occurs, adjustments must be made in the application from which the data has been drawn. Billing data, for example, is transferred directly from Sales and Distribution (SD).

Direct posting

A document is created in another application and has the same structures as a document in Financial Accounting. The document is only transferred so that it can be posted in Financial Accounting; all checks have already been carried out. Documents from invoice verification, for example, are transferred into Financial Accounting in this way.

Batch input

Certain programs in Financial Accounting use batch input to update data. These include for example, the programs for valuating foreign currency and for bill of exchange planning. These programs do not update their data in the database immediately but use batch input to carry out checks in the same way as for a manual posting.