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Technical Data

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.

Integration

The processes Post Goods Receipt, Create Delivery and Create Billing Document are also involved in the business process.

Prerequisites

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.

Features

  • 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.

Example

A customer sends purchase orders, or processes shipping notifications or invoices.

A vendor processes purchase orders, or sends shipping notifications or invoices.