Condition Based Downpayment

[former_member680709]

Dear All,

We are using ECC 6.0 EHP5.0 with single instance worldwide, one controlling area, one global chart of account and one fiscal year for all company codes in SAP and for each company code we have 1:1 mapping to sales organization.

We are in process of implementing "Condition based Down payment" with conjunction with a billing Plan but the billing plans is not including any down payment items .

We followed the SAP best practices guide to setup the condition types and pricing procedure per the guide

http://help.sap.com/bp_retail603/BBLibrary/Documentation/732_BB_ConfigGuide_EN_US.doc

We followed the following process:

1. Created a regular Sales order with 2 items with a total value of say 5,000 GBP and entered a value for condition AZWA in the sales order header for 1,000 GBP

2. Entered a down payment for that amount (1,000 GBP) using t-code (F-29). In F-29 we entered the special G/L indicator = A (downpayment) and tried to reference the sales order number. However, the system gave error message u201CMessage no. V1125 - Enter the item numberu201D so we were forced to enter the payment at the line item level.

3. Created the invoice for this item and received the expected value in the AZWB pricing condition but the accounting document did NOT settle the down-payment amount per the value in AZWB.

We have the following questions:

1. How can we make the F-29 payment using only the sales order number (i.e. at the header levelu2026without the line item)? The SAP Help implies that this is possible. (http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_05/helpdata/EN/dd/560e4b545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/frameset.htm) in the Down Payment Processing (Basis: Document Condition) section under u2018Incoming Paymentsu2019 it says u2018The system summarily posts the payment to the sales order number, not item-specificallyu2019. It then also says u2018Aside from this it is possible to post the incoming payment directly in the financial accounting (transaction F-29). The important thing here is that the financial accounting item contains a reference to the sales order number. It is also possible to post item-specific down payments.u2019

2. During Final Billing, how and we get the accounting document to settle the down-payment amount per the value in condition type AZWB. In the billing-plan process, the final billing settles the downpayment. We want the condition based final billing to act in a similar way and do not want to have to perform a manual downpayment settlement separately (via F-39).

Thank you in advance,

Vicki

[former_member680709]

We have now also tested a DBR WITHOUT a billing plan using the condition based downpayment and it reacts the same way so we have proven the billig pan is not the issue. The AZWA condition creates the downpayment on the order just fine but we want to be able to then do F-29 at the HEADER level (and not be forced to enter line item). SAP Help implies that is possible but we have not figured out a way. Has anyone done this?

Thank you,

Vick

Edited by: Vicki Shrontz on Oct 12, 2011 2:13 PM

[former_member988483]

Hi Vicky.

If you try entering the down payment amount in f-29 including the item line(s), does it work at all, i.e. is the billing document created taking in account the down payment? (azwb is populated) You do not mention if by now it works at all, so I prefer to ask...

Regards

Toni

[former_member680709]

The solution to our issue was that in transaction SFW5, Business Function SD_01 was not

active. The activation is a prerequisite for condition based downpaymentfunctionality.

Once we activated it the problem was resolved.

[Former Member]

Hi,

In the billing plan Billing rule should be maintained as "4" or "5" which indicates that line is down payment. Assign down payment request for this Billing plan item.

What is the billing document type you have used for the invoicing?

Check if Billing category is "P = Down payment request"

When a down payment request is created it will process only dowm payments.

In F-29 system will process only those docuements which are identified as Down payment request.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Sharan