Title 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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