Business Area is not flowing to Billing Doc Line item

[Former Member]

Hi,

Since recently we have observed that in some billing document creation, the business area in sales order line item is not flowing to the billing document line item.

VBRP-GSBER remains blank due to which we face problem in J1IIN txn.

This is not happening in all the cases. There are very few instances where business area is becoming blank in billing document line item.

But when the same billing document is reversed and new billing document is created, the business area flows properly to billing document line item (in VBRP).

Can anybody suggest why such erratic behaviour? And how to resolve the issue?

Thanks and Regards

Ratna

[former_member217082]

Hi Ratna

As the issue is not happening with all cases ten please check your plant settings and its parameters.Also check the sales organization settings.If any changes are done in the program then also it is possible.so take the help of your ABAP team ask them to debug where business area is not flowing to billing document.

Regards

Srinath

[Shiva_Ram]

Check the settings for business area determination at SPRO->Sales and Distribution ->Basic Functions ->Account assignment /Costing->Business Area Account Assignment -> Define Rules by Sales Area. Then check the material master/plant/sales area details in the sales order. Normally in the sales order itself, business area is determined and billing document copies it. If sales order does not contain this value, then the system tried to determine at the billing document based on the settings maintained in the above SPRO path. If the above settings are ok, then just try to debug the billing creation program to see whether any user exit is causing this issue. May be the coding in the user exit might have some bugs in it.

Regards,

[Former Member]

Dear Shiva Ram and Srinath,

Thanks for your reply

I had checked the settings in SPRO. These are OK. The sales order line item is deriving business area properly. But in some cases (not in all the cases) the business area is not flowing to Billing Line Item during billing document creation. It is happening in production server and not in development server.

I intend to use user exit userexit_fill_vbrk_vbrp to fill the VBRP-GSBER col with VBAK-GSBER if VBRP-GSBER is blank during saving the sales bill thro VF01..

Pl. suggest.

Regards

Ratna

[former_member217082]

Hi Ratna

If it is working fine in Development server and not in Production Server,then before going with the user exit,check wheather Transport requests are moved correctly or not to the production server.Also check wheather any changes are being done by

technical team.Finally with the help of ABAP team,debug in Development server and Production Server simultaneously,so that it is possible to check from where the data is not getting picked in production server.

Regards

Srinath

[Former Member]

Hi Sri Nath,

Thanks for ur reply.

I will check as suggested by you and revert.

Regards

Ratna