Invoice Not Created for STO

[Former Member]

We have an STO between 2 plants where no invoice was ever created. GI posted, the GR posted, but now the GR cannot clear because there is no invoice.

Also, it does not show in WE02.

All other STO's work for us, it is just this combination of specific plants that is not working. Is there a setting we have missed setting up for an STO between these two plants?

Thanks very much!

[Former Member]

Hi Allie,

If is a STO (Stock Transport Order) - Document type UB in purchasing, then no invoice is needed, because you are moving stock between plants of the same company

If the plants belong to different company codes, then the process is an intercompany purchase (document type NB with vendor = plant from another company). In IC purchasing, then there is an IC billing document.

Which one is your business case?

Best Regards,

Franck

[Former Member]

Look for an IC. Sorry for the confusion. It appears that the loading group of the document was maintained in one plant and not the other. So that fixed the IC problem. But, it still should have shown up in WE02, right? It didn't show up until the material master was fixed. This is an issue because we didn't know there was a problem until Accounting saw a discrepancy for inter-co at the end of the month.

[Former Member]

Hi again Allie,

How fast

The truth is that I have some difficulties to understand your exact situation.

the GR posted, but now the GR cannot clear because there is no invoice.

Maybe it is a cultural difference, maybe because you are not using standard SAP terminology

Do you know that using tcode MB5T you can display intercompany stock in transit ?

Uncheck "stock transfer orders" and keep "cross-company-code" checked.

That will tell you the missing GR for incompany purchase orders.

Is that what you are looking for?

Best Regards,

Franck

[Former Member]

No, but that is okay. My issue was that info was missing from the material master and so an invoice was never generated. That has been taken care of. Now, my question is, why did WE02 not pick up the issue? Clearly there was an error with the STO. WE02 is supposed to pick these up immediately. It did not.

Any WE02 experts out there?

[Former Member]

WE02 will receive the FI or MM invoice generated from the RD04 message in the SD billing document.

If the SD invoice wasn't saved because of an error, then of course the internal ALE message was not sent.

IMHO you should check the log of the batch job used to invoice the IC deliveries after their goods issue.

When you invoice through VF04 you get a protocol of errors, the same should be true in VF06 (Batch billing function).

Regards,

Franck