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Document Flow: Following a Transaction End to End
Shows how SAP S/4HANA links documents into a chain (sales order to delivery to goods issue to billing to journal entry, and purchase order to goods receipt to supplier invoice to payment) and how to read that chain. Document flow, PO history and the jump to accounting are the tester's main tools for proving that a process completed correctly.
- 35 minutes
- 5 lessons + quiz
- Everyone, Business User, Key User, Process Owner
What you’ll be able to do
- Explain predecessor and successor documents
- Display document flow for a sales order and a purchase order
- Navigate from a logistics document to its accounting document
- Use document status to judge whether a process step is complete
- Capture document flow as sign-off evidence
Sources and further reading
- Creating Customer Invoices with SAP S/4HANA Finance · SAP PRESS Blog
- Simplifications to the Data Model for SAP S/4HANA Sales (lesson) · SAP Learning
- Displaying the Purchase Order History · SAP Help Portal
- Applying SAP S/4HANA Sales - Describing the Order to Cash Process (lesson) · SAP Learning
- Understanding Billing Functions (lesson) · SAP Learning
- Executing Basic ERP Processes with SAP S/4HANA (learning journey) · SAP Learning