probable effects of removing Sold-to from invoice header?

[Former Member]

hi

we have a requirement of doing collective billing by Payer and for that we need to remove Sold-to partner details from invoice header to avoid billing split.

We are achieving this by using copy control routine to suppress Sold-to from delivery and (ii) removing Sold-to from header partner procedure of billing type to avoid prevent split due to different Sold-to in preceding documents. (and maintain Sold-to at invoice item level)

Removing Sold-to from header partner procedure was required as otherwise the split indicator UNGLEICH=X was set and we could not find any user exit to set UNGLEICH = space in program LV60AB14 ( SAP ver 4.7 ).

While we are trying to assess the effects of removing Sold-to from invoice header, I would lile to know opinion of others about probable effects of doing such; if anybody has done same thing in past, please help.

thanks in advance

[former_member183879 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

As such removing sold to from invoice header will not pose any risk to the process. It is very much possible to have an invoice without SP. You can very well do this and go ahead.

However you can test this by deleting the SP at header level while creating an invoice document on collective basis, and making the payment for the customer. The only place where I have little doubt is about the "Receivables from the customer(sold to party):" in FBL5N. Here we may have some problems in updating the open items in Receivables and updating the payments. So please do the configuration and test this until payment to find out any errors. Along with this, also run a test on Credit Mngt. If there are no implications in Credit Mngt, and Payments in FI, you are safe to continue this as a process.

The much simpler way to ensure SP not to be considered for invoice split will be to create a invoice split routine and code in such a way that SP is not a factor for splitting the invoices.

So evaluate both of them of their advantage and risk and then decide.

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