Assign LC to Sales order after delivery is created

[former_member365422]

Dear All,

Business want to assign the LC to sales order even after creation of delivery document.

But once delivery is created Payment guaratee procedure and Financial doc no. fields in sales order are greyed out.

Is it possible to make this fields editable even after delivery.

We can assign LC to delivery document but there too many deliveries with reference to one order and user very often misses to assign LC to delivery.

Please advice.

Regards

Mayank

[jignesh_mehta3 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

No. You cannot assign a LC to Sales Order after creation of Delivery. Because this defies the very purpose of LC which Payment Guarantee from Bank once you ship the Goods of quantity & value mentioned in LC document.

We were facing the same issue at my current client (users not assigning LC to Sales Document). We have made the Financial Document Feild in Sales Order as Mandatory & system will not allow to create Delivery unless a valid Financial Document is attached to Sales Order.

Infact we have gone further & applied a User Exit which checks the Customer Code in LC & Sales Order & also compares the LC Value & Sales Order Value. So that there is scope of mistake on users part.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Jignesh Mehta

[former_member365422 · Accepted solution]

Dear Jignesh,

Thanks for the quick reply.

But we cannot make this field as mandatory as LC is used in some cases only, most of the orders are processed without LC.

Is there any way to make financial doc no field editable.

Regards

Mayank

[jignesh_mehta3 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Firstly for Sales Orders against which you have created Delivery, LC No. (Financial Document) feild in the Sales Order can not be made editable now. It is against the Business Principles as explained above.

Regarding your doubt on making the Feild mandatory in future, there will definitely be different Distribution Channel for Exports or some other thing that is common for all Export Orders where LC is required. Apply a User Exit in which you can write a code to check that Condition that is common for all Export Order & make the Financial Document No. Feild mandatory.

But for Sales Orders for which you have created Delivery, the feild cannot be entered now & you have following two options:

If you want to enter the LC no. just for information sake, Enter in it any Text Id available in Sales order or update the Table entry directly for VBKD - LCNUM feild, but this is not recomemded practice & check with your ABAPer whether it is possible or not.

Hope this clarifies,

Thanks,

Jignesh Mehta

[Former Member]

Hi

You have the option of entering the LC number in Delivery also.

Explore the possibilities in entering the number in delivery

regards

PRASHANTH

[Former Member]

Hi,

As per the standard, LC cannot be assigned after delivery is created.

There are many validations for assigning a LC to sale order and accepted by the system.

One of them being LC issued date should be prior to schedule line confirmation date.

Only when all the validations are fulfilled system allows to create a delivery.

Actually Sale order is blocked for delivery in case LC is not assigned in this scenario.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Sharan