Question Re: Mapping Header Text for OrderRequest in Spend Management Q&A

Mapping Header Text for OrderRequest

tom_critchley1 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:25:07 GMT

We have a requirement to map a large amount of text for PO Terms and Conditions to the header of the PO. We are sending the order from S/4 as idoc.

I have tried to add the text as a constant value, however i get an error message, as attached.

We also thought about adding the text to the segment E1ARBCIG_HDREXTN, however would require many segments to hold all the text and then we are limited to only concatenating 3 when in CIG.

Can anyone else advise how they have included long amounts of text into their SBN PO originating from SAP S/4 or ECC?

Re: Mapping Header Text for OrderRequest

Prem_Tracz — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 03:56:25 GMT

Best practice is to actually include an URL to your company's website instead and send the entire T&Cs.

Re: Mapping Header Text for OrderRequest

tom_critchley1 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:33:49 GMT

Thanks for the response. This is what we have done, just wondering if there was another way 🙂

Re: Mapping Header Text for OrderRequest

TobiaszWegrzynski — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:42:10 GMT

hello, have you maintained cross references for PO HeaderTextID? (eg F01, F03, F04, F05, F07, F08, F09 etc?)

Re: Mapping Header Text for OrderRequest

tom_critchley1 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:53:05 GMT

I did think of this - however we don't, as standard hold T&C's as header text and would require quite a large process change. We hold the T&C's as standard text to populate the SAPSCRIPT/Adobe forms.

Update - I maintained standard text in the config for document header, pointing to the standard text i was referring to above. Then performed the cofig as described below but for text id ST - this has now worked as needed