After services that have been performed for your firm have been recorded in the service entry sheet, one or more responsible persons (depending on the system settings) must check that the work is satisfactory and formally accept the services.
The accepted entry sheet constitutes the basis for the process of Invoice Verification for Services . The account assignment objects are charged at the time of acceptance. When the service entry sheet is accepted, a logistics document (material document) is generated.
You maintain the authorizations for service acceptance under
.The following procedures are available to you for accepting services performed by service providers:
One-step acceptance
The person responsible accepts the service entry sheet at the touch of a key.
The same person carries out the processes of service entry and acceptance.
Service entry and service acceptance are organizationally separated, in order to preserve the dual control principle.
Multi-step acceptance
You can make service acceptance subject to a release procedure, in which various departments or individuals have to indicate their approval. The document is not regarded as accepted until the last release point has released it.
You set up such a release procedure in Customizing for
External Services Management
under
Define Release Procedure for Service Entry Sheet
.
Note
You can find out which release procedure an entry sheet is subject to in the service entry transaction via
.For more information, see Accepting a Service Entry Sheet .
Collective Release
If you use a release procedure, you can accept several entry sheets all at once using this function (
).For more information, see Collective Release of Entry Sheets .