Extended Classic and Invoicing Plans

[Former Member]

Hi All,

We want to use the extended classic scenario for SRM but need to use invoice plan functionality in ECC to make scheduled payments.

Does anyone have an idea has to how we can accomadte this?

I've thought of adding a custom field which can indicate an invoice plan is needed and then changing the scenario to classic for that particular order but the user would then require access to ECC to amend the PO.

Is there anyway of adding the invoice plan data in SRM and then passing it to ECC?

Cheers

Chris

[Former Member]

Hi. Do you want to use periodic or partial invoice plans?

If it was periodic you could put custom fields in the cart for start and end date and period type (monthly, weekly etc) and hide them when appropriate using the BBP_UI_CONTROL_BADI.

Then you could use a BADI or user exit in ECC / R/3 on PO create to read the fields from SRM and poulate automatically.

Instead of a new field to indicate that it is an invoice plan why not configure a new account assignment category in SRM to indicate that it needs an invoice plan? Just copy what you use now but call it "Invoice plan". Probably a bit easier than a custom field for this, especially if you are using custom fields for the actual invoice plan info. A custom field would work fins too though.

If you want to use partial invoice plans you would probably have to write a whole new transaction in SRM to allow you to pick up a list of POs from the backend and then have a new screen where you specify the partial dates and values.

When you save in the nwe transaction it could call a function in R/3 that populates the partial dates.

Regards,

Dave.