Deleting the final bill order

[Former Member]

Hi all,

We have migrated installation along with business partner and contract account. After that we did a move-in with move-in date as 31.08.2007. and did a immediate move-out on the same date 31.08.2007. We did this approach, because client requested us that they have some open items (outstanding balances) for that period 08/2007 that has to be migrated into SAP. To perform this, we did the above approach to migrate the open items. Since we did a move-out, that has resulted in a final billing order for date 31.08.2007.

After 2 years, the same business partner has come back with the contract start date as 01.01.2010. A new move-in has been done with the move-in date as 01.01.2010. Now when we bill the business partner for period 01/2010, the billing transaction tries to bill the final billing order. We cannot bill the final billing order because we do not have the billing rates valid for year 2007. The billing rates are valid only from 01.01.2008. in our system. We cannot make the billing rates valid for year 2007 because we need to change a lot of rates.

Instead of changing the validity of rates, we tried to do reverse move-out of the old contract of 31.08.2007. But SAP does not allow because we have a future move-in from 01.01.2010. Hence one option is to reverse the move-in of 01.01.2010., reverse the move-out of 31.08.2007., followed by reverse move-in of 31.08.2007. And then do a new move-in on 01.01.2010.

Is there any better way of handling this scenario? Is there any way to delete the final billing order of old contract without affecting new contract?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Thanks,

Sakthi.

[former_member442034 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

From side of billing you can try to bill final billing order during creation of the manual billing document (EA16). In the initial screen you will fill the contract number and key date (which is the move out date). After that you get the pop-up window if you want to bill opened billing order (in the list should be also your final billing order). After selecting you create dummy document line with 0 amount.

The main prerequisite is that you have some rate category valid in this time.

Best regards

Vlado

[Former Member]

Hi,

First of all I don't understand why you did move-in to migrate open items.Because contract account is enough to migrate open items.

Now you can reverse the final billing order and then can bill the new contract.

Thanks,

Banasri