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Send Upload to Treasury - US Federal IPAC Bulk File Creation Process Purpose
This is a process to interface with US Federal IPAC(Intra-governmental Payments and Collections) system, an internet systembased on GOALS II applications for inter-agency payment and collectiontransactions.
This program handles both collection and payment transactions downloadedfrom SAP. Its main functions are to:
- Download payment and collection transactions from the SAP System to a
bulk file residing in either a local workstation or an applicationserver, with the format required by the Treasury IPAC system in GOALS IIof the Federal Reserve.
- Generate document reference numbers for each downloaded transaction for
identification purposes later when the IPAC result comes back fromTreasury.
- Create FI 'In Transit' document to clear the original invoice document
for each downloaded transaction in the IPAC bulk file.
- Create an entry in SAP IPAC status table and file ID table and update
accounting document with 'in transit' status of each downloadedtransaction in outgoing IPAC bulk file.
- Generate a report list of downloaded collection and payment transactions
in IPACing bulkfile and their clearing documents
- Generate a standard log file for errors.
Prerequisites
Invoices are not blocked for dunning or payment. Selection
The input interface for the program is US Federal IPAC Bulk FileCreation Process. The selection screen has the following sections:
- Sender Information
Use this section to enter information on the IPAC bulk file sender,including their Agency Location Code, Payment Office, and Fiscal StationNumber.
- Receiver Information
Use this section to enter information on the IPAC bulk file receiver.The receiver is a customer, vendor, or trading partner of the sendingagency.
- Invoice Information
Invoice information includes company code, document number, fiscal year,document type, and posting cutoff date.
- Processing Options
Here you can choose between collection, payment, or both, to downloadthe IPAC bulk file sent to Treasury.
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