Issue of output type RD04 through EDI

[Former Member]

Hi Friends,

RD04 which is used for intercompany billing normally uses EDI as the transmission medium. My question is in what form the invoice receiving party (which is usually the supplying plant) gets this invoice? How exactly the person sitting at the other location views this invoice?

Also EDI being an interface, an intergral part of SAP? Does it need any other softwares to connect with SAP?

Where do we do EDI related config ?

Hope somebody is patient enough to go through my query and provide me with the needed info.

Thanks in advance

Regards

mahesh.

[former_member183879]

Hi Mahesh,

The invoice recipient may be receiving the output in any format he likes. The entire process flow is as follows.

1. An EDI output is configured in SAP and triggered while creating the invoice document.

2. Once the output is triggered, it fetches values from SAP, and creates a flat file(say a notepad file) and send that file to the Middleware(TIBCO/Mercator etc). To send the document to the correct middleware, the IP settings, RFC destination etc should be configured in

3. Now the middleware receives the data, populates the same in the table structure it has and then send the data to the receiving system based on the RFC destination it receives from SAP.

4. The data finally reaches the destinatino system where this data is processed and the transactions are executed using those values.

In the whole process, there will be programs in SAP, middleware, receiving system etc which takes care of the data formats, data processing and executing transactions.

Hope this helps you to understand how EDI works.

Configuration of EDI has to be done using output types which varies depending on the application. Generally we can do it in NACE transaction.

[Former Member]

Hi Mahesh,

Entering Program Parameters for EDI Incoming Invoice: Tcode OBCE

Assigning Additional Account Assignments for EDI Procedure:

tcode OBCC

Reward points pls.

Regards,

Govind