You enter a supplier invoice for a purchase order that has already been delivered. Apart from the purchase order itself, what can you use as a reference? Note: There are 2 correct answers to this…

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Options

• AGoods receipt
• BInbound delivery
• CDelivery note
• DBill of lading

• A
  14% (9)
• B
  11% (7)
• C
  75% (49)

Explanation

When entering a supplier invoice in SAP (transaction MIRO), you can reference external shipping documents that accompany the physical goods: the Delivery Note (C), which is the vendor's paper document confirming what was shipped, and the Bill of Lading (D), which is the carrier's transport document. These are valid external reference documents in MIRO alongside the purchase order.

Why A and B are wrong: A Goods Receipt and an Inbound Delivery are both internal SAP system documents generated within your own company during the receiving process - they are not reference documents you'd use to look up and match a supplier invoice. The system already links GRs to the PO automatically during GR-based invoice verification; you don't manually enter them as a reference.

Memory tip: Think "external vs. internal." Delivery Note and Bill of Lading come from outside your company (the vendor and the carrier, respectively), making them valid external references for a supplier invoice. Goods Receipt and Inbound Delivery are generated inside your SAP system, so they serve a different purpose in the procurement flow.

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