The transaction-related electronic archiving of documents and records in a document management system, linked to the ERP data, reduces the effort, ensures consistency and has to guarantee that the requirements defined by commercial and tax law for the archiving of documents are met, such as unchangeability, prompt retrievability, exclusion of loss, indestructibility, etc. 

This Procedural Directive contains the necessary detailed rules and specifications. It regulates the complete organizational and technical process of the transaction-related archiving of documents and records that must be retained, in all phases of a business transaction, from their creation (capture), indexing, storage, unambiguous retrieval, protection against loss and falsification to reproduction.

It is to be specified on the application of an electronic DMS for the documents of a defined business process. The transfer forms for NCI (scanning in "early" and "late" procedures) and CI documents are taken into account.

The linking of an integrated ERP data processing system, a workflow functionality and a DMS software is described in a manufacturer-neutral manner

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