TMS-ERP: Invoice Integration II
Technical Data
Technical Name of Business Function |
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Type of Business Function | Enterprise Business Function |
Available From | SAP enhancement package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0 Support Package 08 |
Technical Usage | Central Applications |
Application Component | Logistics Invoice Verification ( |
Required Business Function |
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You can use a group logistics process to consolidate all the transportation requirements from all the companies in your enterprise into one central logistics company.
Your core business activity can be something other than providing transportation services. For example, your core business activity can be manufacturing. However, you need to transport the goods you manufacture to your customers. To enable this, you can have a company in your group of companies that provides transportation services to all the other companies.
You can use the internal settlement process to settle the freight costs between the group logistics company and the other companies in your group of companies. You can use distributed cost information from an internal settlement document to post costs to the underlying transportation requirement in SAP ERP. The underlying transportation requirement can be a sales order item, a delivery item, or a purchase order item.
For more information, including an example of a process flow for a group logistics company scenario, see SAP Library for SAP TM on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/tm
. In SAP Library, choose 
SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)
Settlement
Group Logistics Scenario
.
You can use this business function to further integrate invoice processing in SAP ERP with SAP TM. You can integrate intercompany billing for a group logistics scenario.
SAP ERP uses the SAP TM information in the sales and distribution module to create outgoing invoices. For a group logistics process, in SAP ERP, you must enable sales and distribution to automatically post to the relevant vendor account in financial accounting. For more information, see SAP Note 2157070.
Prerequisites
You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:
Type of Component
Component
Required for the Following Features Only
Software Component
SAP_APPL 617 SP08
You have activated the
ERP-TMS: Order Integration 2
business function. This business function integrates order and invoice processing in SAP ERP with transportation planning in SAP TM. For more information, see ERP-TMS: Order and Invoice Integration.You have specified the relevant Customizing settings in SAP ERP. For more information, see SAP Note 2157070
.
Note
You must have a single SAP ERP client environment to create an intercompany billing document and subsequently to use an IDoc to trigger the corresponding incoming invoice.
Features
Settlement and Posting of Costs
You can use the TMS-ERP: Invoice Integration II business function to perform the following transportation activities:
Settle freight costs between individual companies in your enterprise (perform intercompany settlement for the freight cost)
Post freight costs to the financial accounting system in SAP ERP for both the company that requests the transportation service and the company that provides the transportation service
Post the breakdown of freight costs to the level of transportation demand items in the financial system of the company that requests the transportation service
As a group logistics company, you can distribute costs in an internal settlement document if a shipper company in your group of companies needs to post the freight cost to the underlying transportation requirement in SAP ERP. The underlying transportation can be a sales order item, a delivery item, or a purchase order item.
You can enable automatic posting to the relevant vendor account in financial accounting in SAP ERP. SAP ERP creates an FI invoice. SAP ERP also creates an agency billing document. The agency billing document contains the distributed freight costs. You can post the distributed freight costs to the underlying transportation requirements.