Creating a Vendor and Accounts Payable Invoice

Question

Hello Everyone,
At the moment we are using transaction FK01 or XK01 to create a Vendor on the SAP system. We want the process of "Creating a Vendor" and "Creating Accounts Payable Invoice" to be available on Portal which allows us to automate some part of our business process.
Could anyone suggest me a proper approach for this requirements. I would appreciate your help. It is a bit urg*nt.
Regards,
PG.

Answer 1

I would check in SE37 to see if there is any other BAPIs. Alternatively you could debug the transaction in R/3 to see which function modules it uses. It's possible that there is no BAPI, but there is a non RFC function module for creating a vendor. In that case, you can create a "wrapper" for it, ie your own function module that is rfc enabled and that simpley forwards the call internally to the function module that creates the vendor.
I would also search the ABAP forums to find out if there are any function modules that provide this operation. If you don't find any threads you can try posting a question. It's best to post questions concerning BAPIs and function modules in the ABAP forums (or related forums).
Failing all this or if none of the above fits your requirements, you could create your own BAPI to perform this operation. But 9/10 there is a standard function module to perform most operations. Don't worry if it's not rfc enabled like a BAPI, just create a wrapper around it.
Cheers,
Dion