Hierarchy
SAP_ABA (Software Component) Cross-Application Component⤷
CA-GTF-TS (Application Component) Technical Application Support⤷
BM (Package) MM Cross-Application Objects
Basic Data
| Data Element | BEDAT |
| Short Description | Purchase Order Date |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | DATUM | |
| Data Type | DATS | Date field (YYYYMMDD) stored as char(8) |
| Length | 8 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 10 | |
| Value Table |
Further Characteristics
| Search Help: Name | ||
| Search Help: Parameters | ||
| Parameter ID | ||
| Default Component name | PO_DATE | |
| Change document | ||
| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | PO Date |
| Medium | 15 | PO Date |
| Long | 20 | Purchase Order Date |
| Heading | 9 | PO Date |
Documentation
Definition
Specifies the date on which the purchase order was created.
Supplementary Documentation - BEDAT 0000
Use
The system proposes today's date.
Procedure
If the creation date of the RFQ is not to be today's date, you can change the default value.
Supplementary Documentation - BEDAT 0001
Procedure
The system suggests today's date. You can overwrite it.
Supplementary Documentation - BEDAT_FP 0001
Use
When creating an invoicing plan, the start date taken is the earliest start date for the transaction or material components.
You can overwrite the start date. When copying dates fron the system invoicing plan, the start date is the reference date.
Example
In the standard invoicing plan, the following dates are maintained:
Start date: 01.01.98
Invoicing date: 15.01.98
The start date in the invoicing plan is the 01.03.99. The system calculates the dates of the standard billing plan with reference to the start date. The system determines 15.03.99 as the invoice date.
Supplementary Documentation - BEDAT_FP 0002
Use
When creating the billing or invoicing plan, the following dates are taken as start dates:
- PSP Element: Today's date
- Cost processing operation or external processing operation: the earliest finish date for the operation
- Material components: requirements date
When transferring deadlines from the standard billing or invoice plan, the start date is the reference date.
Example
The following deadlines are maintained in the billing and invoice plan in the standard system:
Start date: 01.01.98
Billing or invoice date: 15.01.98
The start date in the billing or invoice plan is 01.03.99. THe system calculates the deadlines for the billing or invoice plan with reference to the start date. The system determines the 15.03.99 as a billing or invoicing deadline.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 19981111 |
| SAP Release Created in |
