collective billing does not work

[Former Member]

Hi together,

I´ve already read many articles in SCN on this topic, but non of it provides the needed information.

According to SCN "the criterias to create one billing against multiple sales orders (NO delivery) are the following should be same in all sale orders."

1)  Payer

2)  Inco and Payment terms

3)  Shipping condition in customer master

4)  Exchange rate at header level

Although the involved sales orders meet these requirements, VF04 does not create collective billing.

(There is also no split criteria; trx. vofm)

Are there other settings to be taken into consideration?

Thanks for any help

[VeselinaPeykova · Accepted solution]

If you share what documents are created as a result of collective billing, it would probably help in the investigation.

Have you checked sap note 1561427 - Billing document split? It lists several possible causes.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

due to split analysis the split happens because of different 'assignment numbers'. We use the sales order number for 'assignement number'.

Is that not allowed? What can we do?

Thanks for any help

[jignesh_mehta3 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Assignment Number is filled in Invoice at Header level in field ZUONR (VBRK). Now, every field in Header level in Invoice document can cause a Invoice split, different values are found in more than one source documents, in your case - Sales Orders.

The possible solution would be to change what is filled in Assignment numbers and if it is absolutely necessary to fill it with Sales Order number, such Invoices will be split.

Thanks,

Jignesh Mehta

[VeselinaPeykova · Accepted solution]

You can speak to your colleague from Finance if it is acceptable to :

1) create a single invoice for these two documents or not;

2) whether it is OK to use a different assignment number - if yes what should it be and for which processes.

This setting affects FI, so you need to ensure that changing the copy controls would not cause further problems.

Please share the screenshots.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your help,

Fields 'assignment number' and 'reference number' must be empty and flag 'copy item number' must not been set.

This is - in deed - not acceptable to the FI guys since there is no other link to the original sales order information.

[michael_kozlowski]

In VTFL check also proper setup of copy control. Use spilt analysis to find out why split happens.