AP DACs: General Information

The system uses the accounts payable data access classes (DACs) to enter, monitor, maintain, and process the payments, invoices, and memos that the organization sends to its vendors. For details about the AP processes, see Accounts Payable.

Learning Objectives

In this chapter, you will learn about the DACs that are related to the following data:

  • Reference data that is used in most of the DACs of accounts payable, such as information about vendors, locations, and addresses
  • Transactional data
  • Historical data

Applicable Scenarios

You review AP DACs in the following cases:

  • You need to create a generic inquiry that uses accounts payable data.
  • You need to design a report that uses accounts payable data.
  • You need to customize the accounts payable functionality by adjusting it in the Customization Project Editor.
  • You need to customize the accounts payable functionality by writing customization code.

Basic Relationships Between AP DACs

The following diagram illustrates the main relationships between accounts payable DACs. For detailed descriptions of the DACs and DAC fields, look for the needed DAC in the DAC Schema Browser. (For details about the DAC Schema Browser, see Data from Multiple Data Sources: DAC Schema Browser.)

Figure 1. Relationships between AP DACs