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Data Checklist: SAP requirements for accounts payable analysis

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Summary

Learn what SAP fields that MindBridge requires for the accounts payable analysis.

This article should be read with Data checklist: Accounts payable.

Note: SAP fields mentioned in this document are specified by {SAP Table Name}.{SAP Field Name}. Concatenation of any of the fields mentioned below can be done during the import of the file within MindBridge.


General notes

The various SAP tables used are as follows:

Table Description
BKPF Accounting Document Header Table
BSEG Accounting Document Segment Cluster Table
SKAT General Ledger Account Master Record
LFA1 Vendor Master (General Section)
LFC1 Vendor Master (Transaction Figures)
T003T Document Type Texts (may be used to determine Entry Type)
USR02 SAP Log in Data (may be used to determine Manual Entry)

 


AP detail (required)

The AP detail file contains all the activities in the accounts payable accounts.

#

Field name

Required?

SAP field

SAP Description

Notes

1

Entry ID

Yes

BKPF.BELNR

BKPF.MANDT*

BKPF.BUKRS*

BKPF.GJAHR*

Accounting Document Number

You may also need to include a combination of the other primary keys (such as MANDT, BUKRS, and GJAHR) in order to create a unique Entry ID.

The Entry ID field needs to match across all files.

2

Vendor name

Yes

LFA1.NAME

Name of the payee

If you have multiple vendor names, you may need to concatenate all the fields together.

3

Amount

No

BSEG.SHKZG

BSEG.DMBTR

Debit/Credit Indicator

Amount in Local Currency

 

4

Debit

Yes

BSEG.SHKZG

BSEG.DMBTR

Debit/Credit Indicator

Amount in Local Currency

If BSEG.SHKZG is "S" (ie: Debit), use amount in BSEG.DMBTR, otherwise leave amount as 0 or blank.

5

Credit

Yes

BSEG.SHKZG

BSEG.DMBTR

Debit/Credit Indicator

Amount in Local Currency

If BSEG.SHKZG is "H" (ie: Credit), use amount in BSEG.DMBTR, otherwise leave amount as 0 or blank.

6

Effective date

Yes

BKPF.BUDAT

Posting Date in the Document

 

7

Entry type

Yes

BKPF.BLART*

BKPF.TCODE*

BSEG.BSCHL*

Document Type

Transaction Code

Posting Key

*There is no specific SAP field that corresponds to Entry Type. See the Entry Type section below for more details.

8

Vendor ID

No

BSEG.LIFNR

BKPF.MANDT*

BKPF.BUKRS*

BKPF.GJAHR*

Account Number of Vendor or Creditor

*We strongly suggest to include Vendor ID for SAP datasets. If no vendor ID is provided, MindBridge will use the Vendor Name as the Vendor ID. If both are provided, analysis will use Vendor ID, but both are displayed.

You may also need to include a combination of the other primary keys (such as MANDT, BUKRS, and GJAHR) in order to create a unique Vendor ID.

The Vendor ID field needs to match across all files.

9

GL date

No

BKPF.CPUDT

Day On Which Accounting Document Was Entered

 

10

Account ID

No

BSEG.HKONT

G/L Account Number

 

11

Invoice Ref

No

BSEG.REBZG*

BSEG.AUGBL*

Number of the Invoice the Transaction Belongs to

*These values need to link back to the Entry ID of the related invoice entry. This may either be stored in REBZG of the payment document or, in reverse, stored in AUGBL of the invoice document.

Invoice and payments may have a many to many relationship in SAP. This is currently not supported in MindBridge.

12

Memo

No

BKPF.BKTXT

and / or

BSEG.SGTXT

Document Header Text

Item Text

Use either or a concatenation of both.

13

Due Date

No

FAEDT

BSEG.ZFBDT*

BSEG.ZTERM*

Net Due Date

Baseline date for due date calculation

Terms of Payment Key

*Net Due Date may not be available, in which case the Due Date will require calculation using BSEG.ZFBDT, BSEG.ZTERM and other fields.

14

Invoice date

No

BKPF.BLDAT

Document Date in Document

 

15

Transaction type

No

BKPF.BLART

Document Type

 

16

User ID

No

BKPF.USNAM

User name

 

 

You may also have additional columns that would be useful to include when evaluating your MindBridge results. Please include them in the dataset as needed.

Some examples include: AWTYP, BSTAT, BUZEI, CPUTM, GLVOR, KTOKK, MONAT, RLDNR, STBLG, STGRD, UMSKZ, and XREVERSAL.

Entry type

Entry type is used to determine whether the nature of the entry. The following are accepted entry types:

  • Credit memo
  • Debit memo
  • Adjustment
  • Invoice
  • Payment

While there is no specific SAP field that corresponds to Entry Type, you can infer the Entry Type in the following ways: 

  1. This is the preferred way to get the entry type field. If it's not available, please try options 2 or 3. Mapping from Posting Key (BSCHL) from the BSEG table. Below is an example mapping:

    Posting Key (BSCHL)

    Entry Type

    21 (Credit memo)

    Debit Memo

    22 (Reverse invoice)

    Adjustment

    24 (Other receivables)

    Adjustment

    25 (Outgoing payment)

    Payment

    26 (Payment difference)

    Payment

    27 (Clearing)

    Adjustment

    28 (Payment clearing)

    Payment

    29 (Special General Ledger debit)

    Adjustment

    31 (Invoice)

    Invoice

    32 (Reverse credit memo)

    Adjustment

    34 (Other payables)

    Adjustment

    35 (Incoming payment)

    Payment

    36 (Payment difference)

    Payment

    37 (Other clearing)

    Adjustment

    38 (Payment clearing)

    Payment

    39 (Special General Ledger credit)

    Adjustment

  2. Mapping from Document Type (BLART) from the BKPF table. Below is an example mapping:

    Document Type (BLART)

    Entry Type

    RE

    Invoice

    KZ

    Payment

    KG

    Credit Memo

  3. Mapping from TCODE. 

Manual Entry

There is a Manual Entry control point that is triggered by entries containing a keyword in a column of the data set. There are a variety of ways that can be used to determine whether an entry is a manual entry depending on your SAP implementation and purpose.

Here are some examples of how you can determine manual entry:

  1. User Name - Select User IDs may be related system and automated User IDs. This would indicate that the entry is not a manual entry.
  2. Document Type (BLART) - Select document types such as AA or SA are often considered manual entry.
  3. A formula involving multiple columns, such as TCODE = F* AND KOART = S.

You can select all the keywords that indicate a manual entry within MindBridge or you can adjust your extraction scripts to output either a True/False or 1/0 to indicate a manual entry.


End of period outstanding payables list (mandatory)

This file contains the line items covering all the payables that remain outstanding at the end of the current reporting period. The data format follows that of the AP Detail table described above, except the Entry Type field should be excluded as each entry will automatically be set to "Outstanding".

To check for completeness within MindBridge, you can create the end of period outstanding payables list by taking a subset of the AP Detail where: (Clearing Date > date at End of Period) or (Clearing Date is null). Below are SAP fields that can be used as the clearing date in the formula above

  • BSEG.AUGDT = Clearing Date
  • BSEG.AUGBL = Document Number of the Clearing Document SAP field
Note: Although the BSIK / BSAK tables represent a current open / closed view, they may not necessarily coincide with the analysis period.

Vendor list (optional)

This file provides names for each vendor.

#

Field name

Required?

SAP field

SAP Description

Notes

1

Vendor name

Yes

LFA1.NAME

Name

If you have multiple vendor names, you may need to concatenate all the fields together.

2

Vendor ID

No

LFA1.LIFNR

BKPF.MANDT*

BKPF.BUKRS*

BKPF.GJAHR*

Account Number of Vendor or Creditor

*We strongly suggest to include Vendor ID for SAP datasets. If no vendor ID is provided, MindBridge will use the Vendor Name as the Vendor ID. If both are provided, analysis will use Vendor ID, but both are displayed.

You may also need to include a combination of the other primary keys (such as MANDT, BUKRS, and GJAHR) in order to create a unique Vendor ID.

The Vendor ID field needs to match across all files.

3

Vendor address

No

LFA1.*

Various LFA1.* address fields

 

4

Related

No

 

 

This data is typically not available in SAP systems.

 


Vendor opening balances (optional)

This file provides opening balances for each vendor for the fiscal year. This file is optional and can be provided instead of the Start of Period Outstanding Payables List.

Note: The following mapping is provided as a reference for the data structure. Due to the timing nature of the data in LFC1, it may not work for many SAP implementations. In these cases, the data will need to be obtained from a different source.
Note: The primary key for LFC1 includes MANDT, BUKRS, GJAHR. You may need to include these so that each row is well defined.

#

Field name

Required?

SAP field

SAP Description

Notes

1

Vendor name

Yes

LFC1.NAME

Name

If you have multiple vendor names, you may need to concatenate all the fields together.

2

Balance

Yes

LFC1.UMSAV

Balance Carried Forward in Local Currency

Opening balance in local currency. Negative for credit, positive for debit.

3

Debit

No

 

 

 

4

Credit

No

 

 

 

5

Vendor ID

No

LFC1.LIFNR

BKPF.MANDT*

BKPF.BUKRS*

BKPF.GJAHR*

Account Number of Vendor or Creditor

*We strongly suggest to include vendor ID for SAP datasets. If no vendor ID is provided, MindBridge will use the vendor name as the vendor ID. If both are provided, analysis will use vendor ID, but both are displayed.

You may also need to include a combination of the other primary keys (such as MANDT, BUKRS, and GJAHR) in order to create a unique vendor ID.

The vendor ID field needs to match across all files.

 


Start of period outstanding payables list (optional)

This file contains the line items covering all the payables from previous reporting period that were outstanding at the start of the current reporting period. The data format follows that of the AP Detail table described above, except the Entry Type field should be excluded as each entry will automatically be set to "Opening".

This file is optional and can be provided instead of the Vendor Opening Balances.

To check for completeness within MindBridge, you can create the end of period outstanding payables list by taking a subset of the previous period's AP Detail where: (Clearing Date > date at End of Previous Period) or (Clearing Date is null). Below are SAP fields that can be used as the clearing date in the formula above.

  • BSEG.AUGDT = Clearing Date
  • BSEG.AUGBL = Document Number of the Clearing Document SAP field
Note: Although the BSIK / BSAK tables represent a current open / closed view, they may not necessarily coincide with the analysis period.

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