Incoming Invoices are used in connection with Supply Chain Finance where financing is provided to the Supplier on the basis of invoices. It is currently used to import invoice related data for business sectors Approved Payable Finance (APF) and Receivable Finance (RF).

The invoice and contract information such as buyer, supplier, document type (such as invoices, debit note or credit note), document amount etc. are stored in the xml (or .json) incoming file, which is then imported into the application via Manager for Incoming Messages using the file based interface.

Same file is used to import both APF & RF data. The element <fundingType> determines into which business transaction the file should be imported to. If the <fundingType> is “APF”, then the file is imported to APF Offer or APF Funding depending on the setup in Maintain Pairing Buyer/Supplier. If the <fundingType> is “RCF”, then the file is imported to Add Invoice Set.

Each document element from the incoming file is stored as a single row in the Finance Base Documents pool, which is then further processed. The mapping of the elements to the application fields are available in the application code.

At the moment, the structure/schema of the file is defined internally and stored under ini\xsd\dokang\. This can be adapted as per the project needs.

Detailed documentation on the business sector itself is available at Approved Payable Finance and Receivable Finance.