Technical Name of Business Function |
FIN_FSCM_BCONS_CON |
Type of Business Function |
Enterprise Business Function |
Available As Of |
SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Technical Usage |
Central Applications |
Application Component |
Billing Consolidation (FIN-FSCM-BC-CON) |
Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition |
Not relevant |
You can use this business function to send outbound messages to SAP Billing Consolidation 2.0, process inbound messages, and link messages received with documents and IDoc files. Communication takes place using middleware such as SAP XI / PI or Transfer Client.
The processes Post Goods Receipt, Create Delivery and Create Billing Document are also involved in the business process.
You have installed the following components as of the version given:
Type of Component |
Component |
Is Needed Only for the Following Features |
Software Component |
SAP_APPL |
|
SAP Enterprise Services |
As of software component version SAP_APPL 604, Namensraum http://sap.com/xi/APPL/EDX |
|
JAVA software component |
SAP Java Crpyto Toolkit (J2EE Engine as of Release 6.30) |
To use this business function, the following prerequisites also have to be met:
You have activated the business function.
The necessary certificates have been installed.
The CRL is current.
The connections to the archive and middleware work.
You have made the following Customizing settings for Billing Consolidation Connector.
You have entered all of the partners involved in the business process in the master data.
You have defined the basic settings.
You have defined all inbound and outbound object types.
You have defined the partner profiles.
You have defined the ports in IDoc processing.
You have defined the conditions for message control.
Sending complaints
The system sends all of the messages found in table EDX_OUTBOUND with status Ready for Sending. The system adjusts the status of a message depending on whether or not it was sent successfully.
Processing messages
Messages delivered by the service provider can be found in table EDX_PARK. The system processes all of the messages in this table having status Ready for Processing to IDoc files, and links the documents with their attachment lists. The system assigns the status Processed to messages successfully linked, and places them and the references for the links in table EDX_INBOUND. For messages where linking was not successful the system assigns the status Ready for Linking.
Linking documents
The system searches table table EDX_PARK for messages with the status Ready for Linking and attempts to link their documents with their attachment lists. The system assigns the status Processed to messages successfully linked, and places them and the references for the links in table EDX_INBOUND.
Listing messages
The system lists all of the documents of processed inbound and outbound messages in a table.
A customer sends purchase orders, or processes shipping notifications or invoices.
A vendor processes purchase orders, or sends shipping notifications or invoices.