Zero Value Items keep generating SD Billing Document

[Former Member]

Scenario from my client. Interface coming in generating a sales order with 4 items, one item contains the billable value whilst the other 3 pass in 0.00 value but contain the text items that need to be shown on the physical invoice. The interface contains 0.00 and is entering the value into the price field. This has been allowed to happen and everything up to this point is okay. The SD billing Document is generated and released to accounting. The physical invoice is output containing all 4 lines with the zeros suppressed.and the accounting document generated correctly.

The issue that we are encountering is that SAP thinks it has not billed the zero value items and therefore creates subsequent invoices in SD which do not get released to accounting. As we run a daily billing run there will be many SD Billing documents created unnecessarily. I have set up a routine to which enters a rejection reason against the zero items which should run well after the billing run so that new items are billed correctly and older items are not processed. While this works it is far from ideal.

What other settings are required to prevent this secondary billing for a zero priced item?

Any advice appreciated

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

HI ,

Did you check copy control between sales order and billing for text items and make sure that billinq quantity field should be properly setup.

And also make sure that text item will be not relavent for pricing..

thanks

sankar

[Former Member]

Thanks for the responses however these will not cure the problem as:

1. The items need to be billed to show on output document and

2. There is no delivery step the billing documents are generated directly as a result of the sales order being created

We have tried many permutations of settings including text and free of charge item categories but no combination of settings produced the desired result

Any more ideas please!

[Former Member]

Hi ,

pls check that the text item category which u are using have appropriate SPRO settings like item type = "B" and billing relevance = "A" and "item relv for Dlv. " = 'X' . And i assume here that you are following stnad cycle : order >delv > billing .

Hope this helps...

[Former Member]

Hi,

VOV7 >>> Select u r item category (which u r determining in sales order for text item) >>> details >>> Billing relevance - maintain it as not relevent for billing.

Try it

Kapil