Schedule Import of Purchasing Documents
Application component: Central Purchase Order
App type: Transactional
Line of business: Sourcing and Procurement
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Central Requisitioning (S/4, Ariba Ctrl Proc.)
Scope items: Central Purchasing
Description:  With this app, you can import purchasing documents, such as purchase orders and purchase requisitions, into the SAP S/4HANA system, which acts as a hub system. You can import all purchasing documents that are created in the connected systems or in the hub system. Connected systems can either be SAP systems like SAP ERP systems, SAP S/4HANA Cloud systems, SAP S/4HANA systems, or non-SAP systems. You can also use this app to import descriptions associated with the purchasing data available in these purchasing documents from the connected systems to the hub system. The import will also include notes and attachment information if these are available for purchasing documents in connected system. You can only use this app if the Central Purchasing scenario in Central Procurement is active. 
An Application to import Purchase Requisitions & Purchase Orders from the connected backend systems into the S/4HANA Procurement Hub system
Key features:    Create jobs using any of the following job templates:  Import Purchase Requisitions from Connected Systems: Imports purchasing documents, such as purchase requisitions from the connected system.   Import Purchase Orders from Connected Systems: Imports purchasing documents, such as purchase orders from the connected system.   Import Texts for Purchasing Documents from Connected Systems: Imports descriptions, from the connected system, for the purchasing data available in the already imported documents.   Import Central Purchase Requisitions Relevant for Hub System Processing: Imports central purchase requisitions that are processed in the hub system. Note Central purchase requisitions that are relevant for processing in the hub system are created in the context of Central Purchase Requisition Processing scenario. From the hub system, central purchasers can trigger a conversion of central purchase requisitions to purchase orders without replicating the purchase requisition instance into the connected systems.    Import History for Purchase Orders from Connected Systems: Imports the history details for purchase orders from the connected system.Note   Currently, only delta import and ad-hoc import is supported for importing history details of purchase orders.   In an ad-hoc import, you can still import history details of purchase orders that are not yet extracted to the hub system.   Delta import of purchase order history is possible only when the purchase orders were already imported to the hub system.   Delta import allows you to import the history information of purchase orders that has been posted after the successful job import for purchase orders.     Import Currency-Related Fields of Purchasing Documents from Connected Systems: Imports the currency-related fields to the hub system, once the currency changeover has occured in the connected system.Note The currency changeover is possible only when the connected system and hub system are in the SAP S/4HANA landscape. Furthermore, currency changeover is only valid for connected systems in SAP S/4HANA 2021 or later releases. For more details on currency conversion, please see 3229024 .     Schedule jobs using the Scheduling Options. You can start a job immediately or schedule it for later. If you schedule a job, the system carries it out in the background. You can define whether a job should recur and set up a recurrence schedule. You can import in one of the following ways:   Define the parameters necessary for scheduling jobs. The following import types are available, based on the job template you select:   Full Import: Imports all purchasing documents based on different parameters.   Delta Import: Imports only the changed or new data since the last full import or delta import. This includes:  New and changed purchasing documents.   New descriptions: This import is possible only when the purchasing documents with purchasing data for these descriptions were already imported.   Changed descriptions: This import is possible only when the purchasing documents with purchasing data for these descriptions were changed and imported during this delta import.     Ad-hoc Import: Imports purchasing documents as required based on specific criteria. You can perform an ad-hoc import, for example, when some purchasing documents need to be imported as soon as they are created and you cannot wait until the next scheduled delta import. Note that if purchasing documents imported during an ad-hoc import were not included in an earlier delta import, then these purchasing documents are imported again with the next delta import.   The following import document categories are available:  Purchase Requisitions   Purchase Orders  Note The Import Document Category section appears only if you have selected the job template Import Currency-Related Fields of Purchasing Documents from Connected Systems. Based on the job template and import type/import document category selected, you can choose the importing parameters.  You can also provide a date range to restrict the number of purchasing documents that are extracted from the connected system during the initial schedule of the application job.   Note   You cannot perform a full import more than once with same parameters. You must set different parameters for each full import.   You can perform a delta import only after the completion of a full import.   You can only perform a full import and a delta import to extract the descriptions associated with the purchasing data.   You cannot perform a delta import and an ad-hoc import for central purchase requisitions that are created in the context of Central Purchase Requisition Processing scenario. You can only perform a full import for such purchase requisitions.   You can use input help for many of the entry fields to help you make valid entries.   To schedule the jobs, you must activate the Central Purchasing scenario in Customizing for Central Procurement under Materials Management  Purchasing  Central Procurement - Settings in Hub System  Activate SAP S/4HANA Procurement Hub and Scenarios.    In case of any system compatibility related issues while executing the above features, then contact your system administrator and refer to the Monitor Compatibility of Central Procurement Operations topic for details.   
Business roles: Configuration Expert - Business Process Configuration
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