The drop-down lit of values is maintained on the Ariba Network Supplier Account, on menu path: Company Settings -> Remittances.

On the Ariba Network, the Supplier can inform the Remit to ID as a free text field or select if from a predefined drop-down list of values. If no Invoicing Party is defined on the PO, the system will use the Vendor ID as the Invoicing Party. When creating a PO Invoice document, by default the system will use the Invoicing Party defined on the PO. The buyer may or not select the IP on the PO. When creating a Purchase Order for a Vendor that has more than 1 Invoicing Party on the Vendor Master Data, by default the system will prompt the buyer to select an Invoicing Party on the PO. We can maintain 1 or more Invoicing Parties – as Partner Function “IP – Invoice presented by” – on the Vendor Master / Partner Function area.

The solution described bellow can be altered to support such scenarios. Or we can use use SAP Ariba Invoice Management (aka Invoice Pro) to select the correct Invoicing Party during Invoice Reconciliation. This scenario can be different for other customers, where the IP selected by the supplier may take precedence on what is informed on the PO.

If the SAP ERP PO does not contain the Invoicing Party, the Supplier should have the option of informing the Remit to Address (Invoicing Party to be used). If the Invoice Party is selected on the SAP ERP PO, the Invoice should use that Invoice Party on the Invoice. On a scenario where a customer has multiple Invoice Parties (addresses) for a single Vendor, we want the integrated SAP ERP and Ariba solution to handle as the following: The Ariba Network and Ariba Purchasing and Invoicing (P2P, Invoice Pro) has a similar concept, but it is called Remit To ID. SAP ECC and S/4 Invoice have a concept of Invoicing Party when creating an MM Invoice.

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