What is a summary invoice?

A summary invoice covers multiple purchase orders, while standard invoices are matched to only one purchase order.

Buyers can submit a summary invoice in SAP Ariba Procurement solutions, or suppliers can submit a summary invoice through commerce eXtensible Markup Language (cXML).

The cXML summary invoice contains payloadID attributes at the line-item level, which refer to the payloadID of the original OrderRequest documents. The invoiceLineNumber attribute refers to the line item number on the invoice. The lineNumber attribute refers to the line item number in the original OrderRequest.

See the SAP Business Network cXML solutions guide for an example of a cXML summary invoice.

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