Park inbound EDI Invoices on iDoc failure from a workflow?

Question

Hello all,
We have seen note 501524 that talks about parking inbound invoices by default.
Our situation is this. We are expanding our use of EDI for inbound invoices. As such we would like to automate the validations steps as much as possible. To date with our limited use we have set up a workflow to notify on idoc failures and then a few agents have access to BD87 to make the idoc right and reprocess. We don't want to continue this process.
Our preference would be to continue to allow the iDoc to fail, the workflow fires but at this point we communicate the failure to the appropriate person and park the invoice.
Does this sound like a reasonable approach?
Can we even park a red lighted iDoc?
Once parked can the invoice be dealt with without using BD87?
Has anyone ever tried this?
Thanks,
Doug

Answer 1

Hi Ralph,
   In my opinion, you must have a PO Number for Invoice if you want to use standard functionality. You will probably need to create IDOC using an ABAP program which reads this file and search for PO based on the information available to you. I also notice that you are missing material number as well, how do you match the item number in the PO ?
   I don't see a way aroung without writing an ABAP program to handle this logic, but you can still use IDOC ( which comes with the standard processing logic and that is a big advantage ) so that you need to write only the PO matching logic.
  or if you are not inclined to write a separate program for uploading file into SAP and formatting IDOC, you can write your own process code (FM)for INVOICE01. Inside this process code (FM), you can put your PO matching logic and then call standard FM (process code). This is what I usually do.
Cheers,
Sanjeev
Cheers,
Sanjeev