a Strange Cancellation of Invoice

[Former Member]

Hi gurus

My colleague has made a terrible mistake in issuing invoice. Here is the story.

In the beginning he created an invoice via VF01. Then he was told the delivery was wrong so he had to cancel the invoice via VF11 with another invoice document. Then the finance people said the cancellation date was wrong. So he cancelled the "cancellation of invoice" with VF11 - I don't understand why he could actually do that because I thought it's not possible to cancel a cancellation invoice. So now the document flow looks like this -

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Standard Order 0000027651 22.02.2010 Completed

Delivery 0080099014 22.06.2010 Completed

Picking request 0000098282 22.06.2010 Completed

GD goods issue:delvy 4900729141 22.06.2010 complete

Invoice 0090106904 22.06.2010 Completed

Accounting document 1600001473 22.06.2010 Not cleared

Cancellation of Inv 0090106905 25.06.2010 canceled

Cancellation of Inv 0090106906 25.06.2010 canceled

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When I look into the document flow, I find it quite unbelievable that 90106906 - the cancellation of cancellation of invoice - actually got a status "canceled". I don't know what I can do now. Please help me with any suggestion. Thanks in advance.

yu

[Former Member]

Hello Yu

There is a cancellation document (S3 in the standard) for a cancellation invoice (S1).

Since the cancellation document is canceled, you need not do anything with either of them (Like releasing to Accounting etc.).

Just cancel the original invoice 90106904 again with correct billing date this time and rebill the delivery.

But I am slightly concerned why that Invoice is showing up as 'Completed' now.

Try this and revert with results. Good luck.

[Former Member]

Yu

Further this (cancellation of cancellation) is not possible in ERP Release 6.0. I tested it. If you try to cancel a cancellation document, i system issues error message VF 108- Cancellation document XXXXXXX cannot be canceled. However it is apparently possible to cancel a cancellation in releases 4.0 B- 4.6D if you do things per the note below. I don't know which release you are in and what notes you applied to make it work. You may have a problem to re-bill the delivery as apparently ' The chain of documents for this action is closed'. Another document needs to be created via a credit or debit memo.

Refer to the following OSS note:388489 - Cancellation of a cancellation document

It is also possible your user friend has done 2 partial cancellations (for separate items of the original invoice) and 0090106905 and 0090106906 are both cancellations for 90106904 in 2 parts. Check the document types for all.

[former_member383560]

Hi

pl view the link using

Goto to tcode SE16

Table: VBRK

Field: VBRK-ZUONR - Assignment (this field link the original and cancelled billing documents)

Cancel billing documents must be successfuly released to accounting.

Regards

baalakrushnan.da

[Former Member]

When I try to release those two cancellation document to accounting, I get the same message to say "The document has already been completed"