Input tables of the Order-to-Cash Discovery Accelerator 21.4

Introduction

This section contains an overview of the attributes for each of the input tables of the Order-to-Cash Discovery Accelerator. For each entity the attributes are listed. For each attribute, the name and a data type are displayed. Apart from that, it is indicated whether the attribute is mandatory if the entity is included in the Order-to-Cash process.

Entity	Tables	Mandatory Y/N
Sales order	Sales_orders_base Sales_order_items_base	Y
Deliveries	Deliveries_base Delivery_items_base	N
Invoice	Invoices_base Invoice_items_base Invoide_cancellations_base	N
Accounting	Accounting_documents_base	N
Payment	Payments_base	N

The illustration below displays the relations between entities of the Order-to-Cash Discovery Accelerator.

Sales Order

Sales_orders_base table

Below is an overview of the attributes of the Sales_orders_base table.

Name	Type	Mandatory Y/N	Description
Sales order ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the sales order.
Company	Text	N	The company for which the sales order is created.
Customer	Text	N	The customer for whom the sales order is created.
Customer country	Text	N	The country associated to the customer.
Customer region	Text	N	The region associated to the customer.
Distribution channel	Text	N	The distribution channel associated to the sales order.
Division	Text	N	The division associated to the sales order.
Requested delivery date	Date	N	The customer’s requested delivery date for the sales order.
Sales group	Text	N	The sales group associated to the sales order.
Sales office	Text	N	The sales office associated to the sales order.
Sales order type	Text	N	The sales order type of the sales order.
Sales organization	Text	N	The sales organization of the sales order.

Sales_order_items_base table

Below is an overview of the attributes of the Sales_order_items_base table.

Name	Type	Mandatory Y/N	Description
Sales order item ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the sales order item.
Sales order ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the sales order.
Creation date	Date	Y	The date on which the sales order item is created.
Category	Text	N	The category of sales order item.
Incoterms	Text	N	The incoterms associated to the sales order item.
Latest expected delivery date	Date	N	The latest expected delivery date of (parts of) the sales order item.
Material	Text	N	The material sold.
Material group	Text	N	The categorization of the material sold.
Payment terms	Text	N	The terms of payment associated to the sales order item.
Plant	Text	N	The plant associated to the sales order item.
Profit center	Text	N	The profit center associated to the sales order item.
Quantity	Text	N	The quantity and unit of measurement sold.
Sales order item	Text	N	A user-friendly name to identify the sales order item
Shipping point country	Text	N	The country where the goods are delivered associated to the sales order item.
Storage location	Text	N	Storage location associated to the sales order item.
Value	Double	N	A monetary value related to the sales order item.

Delivery

Deliveries_base table

Below is an overview of the attributes of the Deliveries_base table.

Name	Type	Mandatory Y/N	Description
Delivery ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the delivery.

Delivery_items_base table

Below is an overview of the attributes of the Delivery_items_base table.

Name	Type	Mandatory Y/N	Description
Delivery item ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the delivery item.
Delivery ID	Text	N*	The unique identifier of the delivery.
Sales order items ID	Text	N*	The unique identifier of the sales order item.
Delivery items is invoiced	Boolean	N	Indicates if the sales order item is released to invoicing.

* If you want to include events related to other entities than the sales order in the process graphs, the Delivery ID and Sales order items ID fields are mandatory.

Invoice

Invoices_base table

Below is an overview of the attributes of the Invoices_base table.

Name	Type	Mandatory Y/N	Description
Invoice ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the invoice.

Invoice_items_base table

Below is an overview of the attributes of the Invoice_items_base table.

Name	Type	Mandatory Y/N	Description
Invoice item ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the invoice item.
Invoice ID	Text	N*	The unique identifier of the invoice.
Delivery item ID	Text	N*	The unique identifier of the delivery item.
Invoice item is cancelled	Boolean	N	Indicates if the invoice item is cancelled.
Invoice item is released into accounting	Boolean	N	Indicates if the invoice item is billable.

* If you want to include events related to other entities than the sales order in the process graphs, the Invoice ID and Delivery item ID fields are mandatory.

Invoice_cancellations_base table

Below is an overview of the attributes of the Invoice_cancellations_base table.

Name	Type	Mandatory Y/N	Description
Invoice cancellation ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the invoice cancellation.
Invoice ID	Text	N*	The unique identifier of the invoice that is cancelled.

* If you want to include events related to other entities than the sales order in the process graphs, the Invoice ID field is mandatory.

Accounting

Accounting_documents_base table

Below is an overview of the attributes of the Accounting_documents_base table.

Name	Type	Mandatory Y/N	Description
Accounting document ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the accounting document.
Invoice ID	Text	N*	The unique identifier of the invoice.
Accounting document is cancelled	Boolean	N	Indicates if the accounting document is cancelled.
Accounting document is cleared	Boolean	N	Indicates if the accounting document has been handled and is closed.

* If you want to include events related to other entities than the sales order in the process graphs, the Invoice ID field is mandatory.

Payment

Payments_base table

Below is an overview of the attributes of the Payments_base table.

Name	Type	Mandatory Y/N	Description
Payment ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the payment.
Accounting document ID	Text	N*	The unique identifier of the accounting document.

* If you want to include events related to other entities than the sales order in the process graphs, the Accounting document ID field is mandatory.

Events

Events_base table

The Events_base table contains all sub-event logs for all entities. Below is an overview of the attributes of the Events_base table.

Name	Type	Mandatory Y/N	Description
Activity	Text	Y	The name of the event. This describes the step in the process.
Event end	DateTime	Y	The timestamp associated with the end of executing the event
Accounting document ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the accounting document.
Delivery ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the delivery.
Delivery item ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the delivery item.
Invoice ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the invoice.
Invoice item ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the invoice item.
Invoice cancellation ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the invoice cancellation.
Payment ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the payment.
Sales order ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the sales order.
Sales order item ID	Text	Y	The unique identifier of the sales order item.
Activity category	Text	N	The type of activity that takes place (e.g. change, set/remove block)
Activity order	Integer	N	The number that defines in which order activities are executed in case they have the same Event end.
Activity trigger	Text	N	Attribute describing the reason for the executed activity
Automated	Boolean	N	Indicator whether the event is manually executed or automated.
Department	Text	N	The department that executed the event
Event detail	Text	N	Information related to the event.
User	Text	N	The user who executed the event.
User function	Text	N	The function associated with the user.
User type	Text	N	The categorization of the user.

Note:

It is expected that for each record exactly one of the ID fields is filled in, which is the one of the entity on which the event takes place. The other ID fields may be empty.

Next to the standard mandatory attributes (Activity and Event end), one entity ID is mandatory. This field depends on the entity the event is part of.

Attribute type

Below is an overview of the different attribute types and their default format settings.

Attribute type	Specification
Boolean	n/a
Date	Format: YYYY-M-D
DateTime	Date format: YYYY-M-D Time format: h:mm[:ss[[.zzz]]]
Double	Decimal separator: . (dot) Thousand separator: none
Integer	Thousand separator: none
Text	n/a.

Input format

Some of the attribute types of the input attributes can have multiple format settings which can differ. For example, two attributes can be both of type Date, but they can each have a specific format.

If your input data is of a different format than the default format in the Order-to-Cash Discovery Accelerator, you can edit the format settings for all the input attributes of that type in the Edit Datasource Attribute dialog in the Order-to-Cash Discovery Accelerator to match the format of your input data. See the illustration below for an example.

Changing the display format

If you want to use different display formats in the Order-to-Cash Discovery Accelerator than the default format that is set for the attribute type, you can change the display format settings in Order-to-Cash Discovery Accelerator. For example, if you want to use a different currency string you can change the settings in the Display Format dialog.

Follow these steps to open the Display Format dialog.

Step	Action
1	Click on the Home button and select Settings....
2	Click on DISPLAY FORMAT....

See the illustration below.

In a similar way, you can change the decimal separator or thousand separator for specific attributes.

For more information see Display Format.