why invoice always use internal no range?

[Former Member]

HI Gurus

I just want to know that why invoice use only internal no range?

in order ,delivery we can assing ext no range but in billing system pick internal no range.

Why?

Thanks and Regards

BABI

[Former Member]

thanks for the reply.

[Former Member]

Hi babisap ,

This is because of the audit purpose.

The billing documents should be in sequence , there should not be any deviations or missing numbers.

As financial transactions always scrutinized by the Govt as well as internal audit teams we need to be very carefull in this.

Some countires had made mandatory this thats the reason SAP came up with internal number range.

Have a look at this thread.

Regards,

Vvieks

[alex_zheng]

Hi,

There is no possibility to use external number ranges for billing

documents in the standard system. This design is due to the

fact that most countries do not allow to use external numbering fo

billing documents. Even in program RV60AFZZ, USEREXIT_NUMBER_RANGE is

for internal number range only (see the documentation).

It might be a possibility to transfer the external number as reference or allocation number.

Thanks,

Alex

[Former Member]

Hi,

The billing document is generally followed by the accounting document which actually gets reflected in your PL and Balance Sheet. The Internal number range is to minimize any kind of Accounting fraud that can be done. These Billing documents are also scrutinized in Audits as well and are thus one of the basic criteria in accountability.

Regards,

Mukund

[Former Member]

Hi,

IF ur using external number of billing document for accountability will be a problem .

Billing is a important document based on that only we are colleting th epayments from the customer. if one inovice also missing then it is a loss for the company.

If system is creating internal invocies we can able to track the which invoice is genrated and cleraed we will be having the correct information.

Thanks.

Vasu