File Format in E-Invoicing

[former_member390368]

Hi,

We have requirement where we need to implement e-invoicing for the below file format:

UBL
CII
Factur-X

Could be please suggest me if the above file formats in available in SAP ECC6-EHP8 system.

Suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Thanks & Regards,

Pooja Ranjhani

[Ulrich_Schmidt]

Hello Poja,

I'm not sure, whether the ECC system contains functionality for this, but this looks like a scenario, where the SAP Business Connector can be used to easily implement this:

1. Get an XML Schema, e.g. for the UBL format and import it into SAP BC to generate a "Record Definition".
2. For outbound communication:
   a) send the necessary data to SAP BC via RFC (e.g. a function module or INVOIC IDoc?)
   b) use a graphical mapping to map the data from the RFC/IDoc records to the above Record Definition
   c) run the resulting record through the XML Renderer and send the XML document to the receiver via HTTP
3. For inbound communication:
   a) POST XML document to SAP BC's HTTP port
   b) run the data through the XML Parser and then map it from the resulting record to the required RFC/IDoc records
   (Similar mapping as in 2b) above, only in the "opposite direction".)
   c) finally send the RFC/IDoc data to the SAP system via SAP BC's RFC outbound channel

There is a little bit of development effort necessary on the SAP BC, but I would expect that all of this can be done with simple graphical mapping steps, no Java coding required, because SAP BC already provides many tools for XML processing as well as RFC and IDoc processing out-of-the-box.

Similar Flows could then be implemented for the other two formats, CII and Factur-X.

For download and documentation of the SAP BC tool, see https://support.sap.com/sbc-download and https://support.sap.com/en/product/connectors/bc/details.html

[matt]

I think SAP have an add-in for this. (ZUGFeRD in German).

I wrote my own.