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Use

You can create messages when posting an invoice in ERS. You can send messages externally to vendors by printout, fax, EDI, and email. This includes PDF documents. The messages can be sent as follows:

You define corresponding jobs for the program MM70AMRA. If you start one of these jobs, all messages that correspond to the selection criteria are outputted.

If you do not want to generate any messages, select the field No message creation on the selection screen. Your messages are not transmitted to the vendor.

Prerequisites

Maintain the EDI partner profiles using the SAP Easy Access Menu : Tools Business Communication IDoc Basis IDoc Partner Profile. For more information on maintaining EDI partner profiles, see in the SAP Library Basis Services / Communications Interface (BC-SRV) The IDoc Interface (BC-SRV-EDI) IDoc Interface / Electronic Data Interchange (BC-SRV-EDI) Defining Partners.

Function

Settings in the IMG for Logistics Invoice Verification:

Define the messages that are to be created when an invoice is posted.

Message Determination Maintain Message Types

Define the text modules that the form should contain.

Message Determination Define Forms

Message Determination Define Sender Details for Forms

Define the time and medium to be used to send the messages.

Message Determination Maintain Conditions

Maintain the EDI partner profiles.

EDI Enter Program Parameters.

Features

Define text modules for form

You save standard texts per company code, which are then outputted at fixed points in the form MR_PRINT by the print module. The form MR_PRINT is used by the ERS settlement document. The following text modules are processed:

Text type

Position

Example

Header text

top right of the form

Logo

Footer text

on every page of the form as footer text

Information on the company

Sender

above the address

Sender of company code

Note

If you work with various languages, you must create the texts in all of the languages.

Activities

If you have created messages in ERS that you want to send explicitly, proceed as follows:

  1. Select the menu path Logistics Invoice Verification Environment Messages Issue.
  2. Enter the message that you want to issue. You can enter the following criteria:

Message data

Invoice document data

  1. Choose Execute.

The system displays a list of the messages that correspond to the criteria.

  1. Select the message that you want to issue.
  1. Choose Execute.

The system issues the messages and updates the list of messages. The system tells you how many messages were sent.

Note

Customer exit for changing output

In the standard function modules for issuing print documents or creating IDocs for EDI, SAP enhancements exist in the form of customer exits. The enhancement MRMN0001 contains the following components:

EXIT_SAPLMRMN_001:

You can create additional IDoc segments for issuing an ERS document.

EXIT_SAPLMRMN_001:

You can change the structure and content of the print documents for the ERS document.