---
article_id: KB0408703
article_type: FAQ
component_ids:
  - SBN-AN-TX-INV
  - SBN-AN-TX-SS
component_descriptions:
  - SAP Business Network for Procurement & Supply Chain > Transaction Documents > Service Procurement/Service Sheet (O&G)
  - SAP Business Network for Procurement & Supply Chain > Transaction Documents > Transaction (Invoicing)
products:
  - SAP Business Network for Procurement and SAP Business Network for Supply Chain
personas:
  - Buyer
language: en
created: 2025-07-30
updated: 2025-10-08
source: Knowledge Base
url: https://support.ariba.com/item/view/KB0408703
connect_url: https://support.ariba.com/item/view/KB0408703?min=1
sap_for_me_url: https://me.sap.com/notes/KB0408703
---

# How do I enable automatic generation of invoices from approved service entry sheets?

## Symptom

How do I enable automatic generation of invoices from approved service entry sheets?

## Environment

SAP Business Network.

## Resolution

**Prerequisites**

- Ensure that the following integration scenarios have been implemented:
- - Automation of Source-to-Pay with SAP Business Network (42K)
  - Service Procurement with SAP Business Network and SAP Fieldglass (4R2)
- Ensure that the **Enhanced order confirmation integration capabilities for hosted and integrated suppliers** entitlement is enabled.
- Ensure that the following transaction rules are enabled in the SAP Business Network buyer account:
- - **Allow exchange of documents between SAP Business Network, SAP Fieldglass, and SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud, for services procurement**
  - **Require suppliers to fully confirm line items before fulfillment**
  - **Require delivery dates for order confirmations**
- Ensure that the country-region-based invoice rule, **Enable automatic generation of invoices from approved service entry sheets** is enabled.
- Ensure that the **Ignore country-based invoice rules** transaction rule is disabled in the SAP Business Network buyer account.
- Ensure that the **Auto-generate service sheets from service invoices** transaction rule is disabled in the SAP Business Network buyer account.

**Restrictions**

- This feature is not applicable to suppliers who invoice through an integrated ERP system.
- Automatic generation of credit memos from correction service entry sheets is not supported.
- Allowances and charges information in the purchase orders is not carried over to the automatically created invoices.
- Service entry sheets originating from SAP Fieldglass cannot be edited in SAP Business Network.
- Enabling the **Allow suppliers to create invoices directly from service POs without a service sheet rule takes no effect when the Allow exchange of documents between SAP Business Network, SAP Fieldglass, and SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud, for services procurement** rule is enabled.

#### Confirming Automatic Invoice Creation from Service Entry Sheets for a Customer

Before SAP Business Network can automatically create invoices from service entry sheets for a buyer, the supplier must agree to the invoicing rule. The supplier must also specify whether you want the invoices to be saved as drafts or submitted for approval.

##### Procedure

- On the Enablement tab, look for a notification that a customer has requested you to confirm automatic invoice creation from receipts. Click the notification.

  The **Account Settings** > **Customer Relationships** > **Automatic Invoice Creation Acceptance** page is displayed, listing buyers that have requested confirmation to automatically create invoices from service entry sheets.
- For each customer whose status for **Automatic invoice generation from service sheets** request is **Not Responded**, click **Respond** to respond.

  The Confirm Automatic Invoice Creation page appears.
- Click **Yes** to confirm that you accept automatic creation of invoices from approved service entry sheets and specify whether you want the invoices to be saved as drafts or submitted for approval.
- Select the **By selecting Yes**... check box, which acknowledges that you authorize SAP Ariba to automatically create and submit invoices for the selected buyer.
- Click **OK**.

## See Also

For more information about the feature, you can see [2111 Readiness Feature Preview: Support for automatic generation of invoices from approved service entry sheets](https://support.ariba.com/item/view/200328)

## Keywords

\[Change Request ID: NP-21092\]