SAP Biller Direct Buy Side

Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function	FIN_FSCM_BD
Type of Business Function	Enterprise Business Function
Available as of	SAP Enhancement Package 2 for SAP ERP 6.0
Technical Usage	Biller Direct - FSCM
Application Component	SAP Biller Direct (FIN_FSCM_BD)
Directly Dependant Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition	SAP Biller Direct (FIN_FSCM_BD)

Use

You can use this business function to enable your vendors, within SAP Biller Direct Buy Side, to upload bills via your portal, and then monitor the corresponding account movements there.

Additional functions are available to the Web users of SAP Biller Direct .

Prerequisites

To be able to use the enhanced functions of SAP Biller Direct , you are using Accounts Receivable Accountin g (FI-AR) or Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) in connection with an industry business solution.

To be able to use SAP Biller Direct Buy Side you are using Accounts Payable Accounting (FI-AP).

You activated the FIN_FSCM_BD ( SAP Biller Direct ) business function.

You have made the system settings as described in the Configuration Guide for SAP Biller Direct for FI-CA , SAP Biller Direct for FI-AR and SAP Biller Direct Buy Side .

You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:

Type of Component

Component

Is Needed Only for the Following Features

Software Component

EA-APPL 602

SAP_APPL 602

Technical Component or Business Content

As of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 BI Content Add-On 3 Support Package 06

Features

SAP Biller Direct Buy Side

The following functions are available to vendors within SAP Biller Direct Buy Side .

Upload of bills in XML format (optional) with attached documents in the portal

Depending on how you have configured accounts payable accounting (FI-AP) in the back-end system, the bills are either posted there direct or first parked.
Display of open bills in the portal
Portal display of payments made by the customer

SAP Biller Direct

You can connect SAP Biller Direct to various back-end systems and therefore display bills from different SAP back-end systems to your Web users.

Moreover, as biller you can follow the behavior of your Web users in a monitoring cockpit in Business Intelligence (BI).

With SAP Biller Direct Web users can:

Use a new layout with navigation tree on the left side of the screen in addition to the existing layout with navigation using tab pages and a header bar.
Keep a clear overview by restricting the number of items shown in the Web application under Open Items, Paid Bills, Payments and Credits .
Make working with long lists easier, by filtering items on the tab pages Open Items , Paid Bills , Payments and Credits using various selection parameters.
Download other archived documents, such as expense reports, as a PDF from the optical archive, and not just bills.
Display status information, such as last logon, latest payments and latest master data change.