Invoice Posting Issue - Foreign trade data missing

[Former Member]

Hi All,

During the reversal process, a bunch of cancellation invoices did not get posted into accounting and this could have been because of the billing date falling within a closed FI period. I believe the users have overlooked the date and also the message which states u201Cno accounting document was createdu201D and have gone ahead with deleting the deliveries. Now, using VF02 or VFX3 when we try releasing the invoice documents into accounting we get a message u201CForeign trade data missingu201D. The foreign trade data related fields at invoice line item level are also grayed out and does not allow any amendment. Is there a way we could have these documents posted into FI? Thanks for your time and help.

Regards

Pratheb

[alex_zheng · Accepted solution]

Hi Pratheb,

If the ship-to party country is different than the shipping point

country, the system always performs an incompletion check for foreign

trade data.

This check is hard-coded.

If an incompletion schema is customized (transaction VI29, VI49), then

the system performs the check according to this schema.

If no incompletion schema exists, then the system performs a 'default'

check on the fields listed in the note 173411.

This is the standard working of the system, which is happening in

your system too.

If you don't want customize any incompletion schema, and you don't

want any check of the 'default' schema too, then you have to implement

the userexit of enhancement V50EPROP.

By functions EXIT_SAPLV50E_001, EXIT_SAPLV50E_003 you can set default

foreign trade data.

By functions EXIT_SAPLV50E_005, EXIT_SAPLV50E_006 you can set the

foreign trade data as Completed.

I suggest you to read the function module documentation of the

functions in the enhancement V50EPROP (by transaction SE37).

Please also refer to note:

118573 User exits foreign trade data in SD and MM documents

I hope this is helpful.

Thanks,

Alex

[Former Member]

Hi Pratheb,

From the information you have provided I assume you are referring to invoices cancelled via tcode VF11. It is also mentioned that after cancelling the invoices, the deliveries were also deleted.

A few things are not very clear -

If the delivery is deleted then the sales order is open (it would need to be delivered and billed again). Are you trying to release the cancelled invoice to accounting? Have you recreated the delivery and billing and are you trying to post the new invoice to accounting?

Cheers,

Shailabh