Posting JV's from PAPM into S/4 universal journal via IDOC

[robharper]

Currently we write back transaction data from PAPM to universal journal (ACDOCA) using RFA functions to the S/4 accounting interface. My question is this -- Is there a way to generate IDOCS from PAPM to feed into central finance on S/4? The driver behind this question is performance. IDOCS tend to post to the ledger much faster than RFA / RFC. Has anyone explored this option?

[JustineAngeles]

Hi Dear Robert,

It is wonderful to know that you are leveraging our PAPM RFA functions to post back to Universal journal.

Since I am not having a clear picture though which RFA type you have been using, excuse me for replying now to your question in a more general form.

Firstly concerning IDOC, SAP PaPM does not generate IDOC that you can feed into central finance.

I understand that you are looking into direction as you wish to maximize the possible performance benefit it offers but I also want to counter it by the use of RFA FI/GLI.

Have you tried exploring function type FI/GLI? This type has been known to have high performance in case you have numerous items per FI document.

Additional Reference:

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thank you so much

Regards

Justine Angeles

[former_member700990]

Hey Robert,

you already have a solution using a function module created by your IT developer. Instead of applying changes to the PaPM solution for FI-GLI you can check the corresponding PaPM logic to see if you can apply any changes to your function module:

- take a look at report /NXI/P1_FW_RF_FI_GLI_TP which PaPM uses as a template for generating a report for each individual FI-GLI function,

- create a RFA type FI-GLI function and activate it,

- check the generated report which will have the following naming convention:

YCCCEEEVVVVFFFFF_REP

where

CCC - client

EEE - Environment ID

VVVV - version

FFFFF - function ID

If you want to use IDOCs you can also create a function module to handle IDOCs and use it with RFA. Unfortunately as also Justine already wrote in her reply PaPM does not use IDOCs and cannot offer support here.

Regards,

Harald

[robharper]

We use RFA type external which calls a function module (function name) ZPAPM_WRITEBACK that was created by our IT developer. We use external function type because we have a number of custom fields in universal journal that we need to post to. The RFA works fine on the PAPM side. The problem is with S/4 performance. We get errors related to failed RFC connection and resource conflicts can lead to the documents waiting for minutes to post. IDOCS don't have that issue. Is there a way to use FI/GLI and add additional fields for universal journal to the writeback?