third party

[Former Member]

dear experts,

in third party scenario, can we make a customer invoice with reference to goods receipt quantity instead of incoming invoice?

business scenario requires GR to be done.

in VTFA i have made "billing qty" as "E" (goods receipt quantity less invoiced quantity)

copying requirement "028" (order related third party item)

kindly revert

atul

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Atul,

the scenario you are talking about some how resebles the scenario called Bought In Item.

steps involved in this are.

Order From Customer.

Purchase requsitions gets generated,

convert them to purchase order to a vendor.

customer sends the goods to the company but not to the customer.

company takes goods receipt.

then a delivery document is created to the customer.

then billing to the customer.

vendor invoice will be paid by the company at a later point of time.

u can find the BBP for this in help.sap.com

hope this helps.

regards

ravi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

not that case.

here the client does not want to make invoice with ref to vendor invoice as the client does not want to wait for the vendor to send invoice.

as soon as goods are received at the customer site, the client wants to raise the invoice.

[former_member550050 · Accepted solution]

Hi

In third party there are 2 processes With shipping notification and Without shipping notification

1. With shipping notification means that the third party informs you that he has delivered the material your customer and you can raise the invoice to your customer based on this shipping notification without having received your bill from the third party vendor

Shipping Notification

When the vendor has sent the material to the customer, they will normally send you a shipping notification, which, amongst other things, contains the exact quantity of material sent. You have the possibility to enter this shipping notification into the system in the form of a dummy goods receipt. It will be posted directly in consumption so that no stocks are created. The quantity of goods received then updates the quantity to be invoiced in the sales order. Therefore, it is possible to create the customer invoice before you receive the incoming invoice from the vendor.

Billing Documents

The billing documents are created on the basis of the order. Since the vendor might not deliver the exact quantity ordered, quantity adjustment takes place via the shipping notification.

Vendor Invoice Verification

The vendor invoice verification can take place after billing. The variance in purchasing can be updated in Controlling using retroactive billing.

ControllingThe revenue and costs will be posted to CO-PA using the billing document.

Key Points

The customer invoice can be created on the basis of the shipping notification before receiving the incoming invoice from the vendor.

2. Without shipping notification means that the third party does not passes the information about the details to you , of the delivery of the material to your customer

In this case you cant raise invoice to your customer till you receive the invoice from your third party vendor

Your scenario is case 1

For further details check the link

http://help.sap.com/bp_bblibrary/500/BBlibrary_start.htm

Regards

Raja

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

It is good business practice to raise invoce to customer based on vendor invoice. Otherwise you will have trouble with traceability, but with customizing you can create invoice based on "order qty minus invoice qty". But there can be no GR for these orders.

[Former Member]

It is not possible to perform a GR to third party PO that is generated from a third party sales order. This PO can only be invoiced. Assuming you are looking for a standard third party process, it is not possible to pratially invoice customer if the PO is fully invoiced, becuase for a third party PO invoiced qty is equal to delivered qty at customer site.

Hope this helps. Feel free to ask if you have more doubts.