Impact of Billing Element check on WBS

[former_member591922]

Hello Team,

We have a scenario in project where Revenue WBS are there with Capital WBS(included with Capital Projects having Capital Project Profile).

For settlement rule, custom transaction was used which was updated the help of SAP notes and introduced a new account assignment

category 'superior WBS element' for capital investment project.

Problem is while imparting these changes to settlement strategy, system is not allowing me to make 2 entries one for Capital project and other for Revenue WBS ,please find below:

System is giving error 'an entry already exist for same key' , due to this reason we have to mark billing element check for Revenue WBS element

to insert that entry .Settlement strategy is  assigned to Project profile ,I checked only one strategy can be assigned to Project profile  further settlement rule is created by CJb2 transaction(Capital on Superior and Revenue WBS on Cost center)

Could you please guide, is  there  any other way  I can add revenue WBS element to same Strategy or what would be the impact of Billing element check on WBS element in terms of settlement and other processes etc.

Thanks in advance.

Karan Varshney

[kenmelching]

A couple of points:

1.  The Settlement Strategy is used to automatically create settlement rules on WBS element.  With automatic creation the system has to be able to determine a unique settlement rule, that is why you can only enter one profile per line. 

2.  But, it does not have to be used.  You can manually create settlement rules or write a program to create them for you however you wish.

3.  For Revenue WBS elements you usually do check the Billing Element so that WBS can be hooked into SD for Billing.

[former_member591922]

Hello Ken,

Thanks for your response.

we are not using Revenue WBS element for billing scenario in project , all the cost incurred on revenue WBS is getting settled to cost center through settlement rule generated before by transaction CJb2.

Just want to know the  impact of  billing element check on system in absence of Billing scenario used.

Karan

[former_member183879]

The billing element indicator in WBS does not have any other purpose apart from that WBS being used in sales orders / invoices.