Vendor Balances extractions

Question

Hi Gurus!
I need extract the the open items from Vendor Balances but they gave me an output file format that have 3 parts:
1. header
2. Vendor line item
3. GL line items
I don't uderstand  the difference between vendor line item and gl line item. Can a vendor line item have a gl line item or only header can have gl line items?
I found a bapi for extract open items ( BAPI_AP_ACC_GETOPENITEMS ), but I don't found the gl line items inside it.
How can I extract the gl line items? and what are the difference between both?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Go to transaction FBL1N and leave the vendor number blank, run the balances for all the vendor line items.
You need to restrict the balances to the reconciliation account in the selection parameters.
This will show you all the balances in your Trade accounts payables in your balance sheet account.
Usually there might be several reconciliation account created in the balance sheet for different vendor categories, i.e. inter co vendor, trade vendors, employee expenses, subcontractors etc.
Please choose which account you want to reconcile to the vendor balances. Usually companies choose default A/P Rec account as 200000 and will proceed to build up rec accounts in this series. Review your reconciliation accounts in the vendor master and use this information in the FBL1N transaction. Hope this helps.
Best - S