Approach for Accrued charges

[Former Member]

Hi,

We have a requirement to accrue charges during creation of a customer invoice and then subsequently issue a debit memo to the Customer for these accrued charges.

One approach is to use rebates with a settlement document as a debit memo request instead of a credit memo request.

We wanted to explore any other way that we could approach this. We could use an accrual condition, but we need to be able to get accrued values for every customer seperately in order to get the charge amounts.

Would appreciate inputs from fellow forum members.

Regards

Rohit Zalani

[Jelena · Accepted solution]

The only thing that comes to mind is a completely custom solution with a custom (Z...) table to store the data, which could then be used to create the sales documents. This would also involve some ABAP work in the user exits.

Although you might want to try a custom pricing condition (which would have no meaning ther than to store the amounts to be accrued) + a custom order type + copy routines, which would copy only those pricing conditions.

Both solutions are not perfect and have some pros and cons. With Z table you'll have a better reporting options, in case business would want to know how much amount per customer is accumulated per month, day, etc. It is very difficult to get any reports by the pricing conditions because the tables are clustered.