Explain What is an EDI Invoice

[Arthur Wang]

What is an EDI invoice, how it reflects in SAP system?

Quite generally, you create an invoice by a normal way, but after this you generate an output (print document) in the form of an IDOC. This IDOC can be sent to the customer. The process is similar to the standard print output of the invoice. The IDOC should be of a message type INVOIC. The function module is IDOC_OUTPUT_INVOIC.

There is also a self-billing process with the invoice creation. In this case the customer sends the IDOC for himself. This IDOC must be processed via EDI on SD side, and then the SD invoice will be created. To learn this process, please call the function module IDOC_INPUT_SBINV in the transaction SE37 and the press the button “Function Module Documentation”.

The SBINV process can be realized via EDI only.

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