Howto Bte

SDN Contribution

FI Enhancement Technique – How-To-Guide on the Usage of Business Transaction Events (BTE)

Applies to:
SAP 4.6C and Above

Summary:
This article provides a step-by-step guide on the usage of Business Transaction Events, as an Enhancement technique in the Financial Accounting Module of the SAP R/3 system. Created on: 2 May 2006

Author Bio
Lakshman Tandra is working inIntelligroup from more than 9 years. He is member of Netweaver / ESA core team and currently oversees competency building activities at Intelligroup.

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Table of Contents

FI ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUE – HOW-TO-GUIDE ON THE USAGE OF BUSINESS TRANSACTION EVENTS (BTE)................................................................................................................................................................ 1 APPLIES TO:................................................................................................................................................................... 1 AUTHORBIO................................................................................................................................................................... 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................................................................. 2 WHAT ARE BUSINESS TRANSACTION EVENTS .................................................................................................. 3 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BADI’S AND BTE’S........................................................................................................ 3 TYPES OF INTERFACES.............................................................................................................................................. 4 FINDING BUSINESS TRANSACTION EVENTS ....................................................................................................... 5 BASIC STEPS IN CONFIGURING BUSINESSTRANSACTION EVENTS........................................................... 5 EXAMPLE BUSINESS SCENARIO FOR BTE - PROCESS INTERFACE............................................................ 6 RELATED TRANSACTION CODES.......................................................................................................................... 15 DISCLAIMER AND LIABILITY NOTICE................................................................................................................... 16

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What are Business Transaction Events

The enhancement technique (Open FI) that were developed for Financial Accounting component. Open FI is based upon the following principles: Application developers must define their interface in a function module, an assignment table is read inthe accompanying (generated) code, and the customer modules assigned are called dynamically. This technique differentiates between enhancements that are only allowed to have one implementation and enhancements that can call multiple implementations in any sequence desired. Both industry-specific and country-specific enhancements may be defined. This can be easily adopted / customized to thebusiness needs wherein SAP does not provide the standard functionality through customization or enhancements. This functionality is primarily used in FI in the areas of dunning, credit management, banking etc. For Example: Standard Dunning functionality in SAP sends the notice to the Pay to partner function (based on the partner functions in SD module i.e. pay to hits the books in Accounts Receivablein FI module), whereas the requirement could be to send the same to Bill to party, based on the premise that the original invoice was sent to him as per the partner functions in SD.

Difference between BADI’s and BTE’s

The concepts behind the Business Add-Ins enhancement technique and Open FI are basically the same. However, the two enhancement techniques do differ from each other in the...