The SSR collective output function allows you to group documents of different types such as movement documents, billing documents, financial documents, or other collective output documents into a single SAP document for output in hard copy or electronic format.

For example, you can use the SSR collective output function to produce a service station partner daily claim output document consisting of:

• Credit card service station partner invoices
• Fleet card service station partner invoices
• Credit card service station partner credit memos
• Fleet card service station partner credit memos

It is also possible to group daily collective output documents into a single periodic collective output document, that is, to produce hierarchical output documents. You can therefore also produce a service station partner monthly statement consisting of the individual daily claim output documents.

The SSR collective output document contains:

• A document header, providing a unique document number for both internal and external reference
• One or more document items representing the source (application) documents included in the print document

The SSR collective output document uses the standard SAP output determination function to produce output in either printed or electronic format.

In order to produce a collective output document, you must define:

• Data capture, that is, what source (application) documents are to be used, and under what circumstances to trigger the production of an SAP collective output document.
• Output production (configuration of the output procedure and output condition types), that is, what does the output of a specific document type look like, in what format should it be produced, and where should it be sent.

In the Customizing for Industry Solutions Oil & Gas (Downstream), choose SSR ® Settlement and Invoicing ® Collective printing ® Print grouping parameters to define the following regarding data capture:

• The types of collective output document that are to be produced (print type groups), such as a daily statement or monthly statement.
• The application documents that are to be used as source documents for each collective output document type, such as billing documents or output documents.
• The attributes that are to be used to select the source documents, such as invoice date, location number, or bill-to party.

In the Customizing for Industry Solutions Oil & Gas (Downstream), choose SSR ® Settlement and Invoicing ® Collective printing ® Output determination for Collective Printing to define the following regarding output production:

• The output types and access sequences.
• The output procedure.
• The output procedure to the print type group.

Collective output documents can either be produced individually, using the create print document transaction (O3RAPR1), or en masse using the location-based group output processing transaction (O3RAPL1) as an SSR process controlled process.

An SSR collective output document that is associated with invoices displayed in the daily claim report (O3RI02) will be identified as a sub-tree level under the invoice document to which it belongs. It is possible to drill down from the daily claim report to the underlying output document by double-clicking on the output document.