Confirming POD manually after Billing Document

[Former Member]

Hi All,

If an order has completed, all the way through to the accounting document, how can the POD be confirmed and subsequent documents created after this?  Will it work?  Are there some other steps that need to be done for the credits and debits to post?  I am a little confused on the process- is there clear documentation of this anywhere?

Thanks!

-Max

[former_member183879 · Accepted solution]

Hi Max,

The concept of Proof Of Delivery (POD) is used especially in perishable commodities where there will be lot of wastage in transit. In those cases, if 10t of a material is shipped, the customer may receive only 8t material and remaining 2t has to be scrapped from his side. In this case, our Outbound Delivery will do the goods issue for 10units, but the customer will be ready to pay only for 8t. For these cases, we use POD.

After Goods issue and before invoicing, the proof of delivery has to be confirmed by the customer. If this is confirmed as 8t in outbound delivery, then invoicing will allow you only 8t and not 10t. This is the basic objective of POD

You can check the OSS note 642497 and 1025066 to understand further on some of the issues.

[siva_vasireddy2]

Hi,

if you do not want the system to Stop Billing without POD confirmation you can make changes in the

routine 003 which is used in the VTFL at header level

you can copy the routine and make changes at the below point

[moazzam_ali]

Hi Siva

Have you tested it? I have tried it and it is not working as routine 003 is having many standard includes which is not allowing this. Could you please test and post your findings.

Thank$

[moazzam_ali]

Hi Max

POD is entered only before creating the billing document. Once you have created billing document you cant enter POD. If your item category is POD relevant then you can not create billing document untill you enter the POD data.

Now what is your business process and why do you need to enter POD at the end of sales process?

Thank$

[Former Member]

Our process has us invoice automatically/shortly after PGI (same day), which I'm assuming would not allow us to use VLPOD to enter adjustments.  Any adjustments needing to be made are done after invoicing has occurred.

Edit: The reason for this is apparently due to our terms beginning when the truck ships and not when it delivers.  We need to invoice on ship date.

[moazzam_ali]

Hi Max

You are right. In your case adjustments can not be done with POD. You have to go with some other process like debit note or credit note etc because once invoice is done you can't do any POD adjustment in my opinion.

Thank$

[sri_ram18]

Hi Max,

You can process by using t-code VLPOD for a single document

to update the status use VLPODL

Please go through the following links,

http://scn.sap.com/thread/1449280

http://scn.sap.com/thread/1791665

http://scn.sap.com/thread/587744

Sriram.