Convert Sales Orders into Customer Invoice Requests

[Former Member]

Hello all, I'm having this problem and I hope you can help me to solve it, I need to convert "Sales Orders" into "Customer Invoice Requests" throught the ByD Studio, so, basically what I'm doing is this:

I'm taking a Sales Order with status "In preparation", then I Released, and whit this it changes the status to "Open", and then... I don't know what to do, anybody knows what's next.

[Former Member]

Hi Phanikumar

The invoice request is the sales order confirmation.

In the Invoice Requests view of the Customer Invoicing work center you are able to see all the items requiring attention, including those that can be dealt with through automatic processing and those that require your individual attention.

You could you find more information within the SAP system in HELP CENTER

[Former Member]

Hi Bahvna

As William said the stage is above.

The scenario is when he sells something he will create
the sales order, then, when his customer receive the product he will pay it in
the bank, and the bank will send a file with all the payments received in the
day, so.

I need to take this file, read the payments and get the
sales orders which belongs, then I should create the "Customer Invoice
Request", and then the "Customer Invoice". The customer wants
this process to be automatic.

Regards

[phanikumar_v3]

Dear I don't understand one thing---once sales order raised and customer received the stock.

as per your post--he will pay for it.

How the customer knows --about  how much he need to pay???

If you send an proforma invoice(then it does not carry any entries to accounting department.)

if customer pays some partial payment--then how system can understand and tells the user in this given situation??

Invoice request---What is this?? What is the standard doc.type for this???

Are you talking about Sales doc.type--RK(invoice correction request) in VOV8.

Please explain.

Phanikumar

[Former Member]

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[Former Member]

What my point is William Gast is instead of going SD-FI- SD again

why not follow the normal process

Sales order - order confirmation - PGI - Billing - Accounting document .

Only difference is  the accounting document will carry sales order no as a ref no  and when the payments come in, all the FI consultant has to do is confirm receipt of payment against sales order and create a report for the customer with fields for sales order no and the amount of payment received from bank.

Accordingly an output invoice can be sent to the customer whose payments are received .

no need for customer invoice request and then customer invoice as the report will carry all the details

[Former Member]

so actually it is sales order - > output order confirmation

then FI side ...

sales order found with ref to payments received in bank...

Then SD  side ......

then customer invoice request generated and finally created customer invoices created..am i right ?

[Former Member]

what is the business scenario ? customer invoice request ? as in  ? sales - customer invoice ? or sales  order -  and request customer to send a PO ?

[Former Member]

he mentioned his process pretty clearly above...

[Former Member]

Correct me if I am wrong but you can not just go from a Salesorder to an invoice directly in ByDesign without all of the goods postings/Deliveries ....

[Former Member]

Hi William, I think you're right, but what the customer wants to do is this:
When he sells something he will create the sales order, then, when his customer receive the product he will pay it in the bank, and the bank will send a file with all the payments received in the day, so, I need to take this file, read the payments and get the sales orders which belongs, then I should create the "Customer Invoice Request", and then the "Customer Invoice", so in resume, the customer wants this process to be automatic.

Now, the identification of the SalesOrder is not a problem, I have a .xbo to do that.

So I don't know if this helps to clarify the use case but I hope so.

Regards

[Former Member]

this seems Like a lot of work when it appears to conform to a standard By Design process..

Sales order -> outbound Delivery-> Invoice.. Then reconcile payments using the lockbox process in ByDesign... I guess I am failing to see what exactly you need to Program anything For?  What is the issue with the standard Built in process.

[Former Member]

any problem with the standard process, but the deal is that the customer doesn't do all this manually, he want a process that make all that work in an automatic way

[Former Member]

Hi

I think you will need to use sdk to automate that process, You will need to capture some information from sales order and then you need to make CI request and then CI.
You can surely do this, here is a long thread, which will give you every little information about creating a customer Invoice through SDK  -- >  http://scn.sap.com/thread/3310312

Regards

[Former Member]

I do not think you are even understanding the problem... Just creating an invoice this way does not link it to the sales order.

[Former Member]

Oh sorry..My bad..!