Milestone Billing

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

I'm interested to know whether DIP profile is mandatory to bill customer projects through milestone billing & sales order?

I never experienced customer projects and in capital projects, customer billing was not there.

So if we can bill without DIP profile, how can we do?

Waiting for your valuable suggestions

Regards,

VINOD.V.

[former_member183879 · Accepted solution]

Hi Vinod,

Milestone billing and RRB are two different concepts and RRB need not do anything with MS billing.

In Milestone billing, following are the configurations which need to be done.

You should have a Billing Plan with Milestone billing in SD with relevant date categories, etc and this Billing plan should be assigned to the relevant item category

From PS, you will have basic PS configuration entries followed by Milestones, with the usages etc.

Also some transactional projects, WBS elements or networks with Milestones enabled in either WBS or in Network activities.

These milestones should be Billing relevant milestones (Sales Document Date check box ticked on)

Now the sales order items should have account assignment object as WBS element.

If these set ups are available, then it is possible to have MS billing. When activities are confirmed in Network, billing is activated for the relevant milestones.

Having said these, it is also possible to have a simplified version of Milestone billing without Project System, just by enabling a MS billing plan. But here all the billing plan records need to be manually managed with billing block etc....

This is only a basic tip to explore further. If we shoudl enable the complete MS billing with PS, you will also need help from a PS consultant.

You can do MS billing very well without DIP profile

Hope this helps

[Former Member]

Dear Saurabh / Navneeth,

Thanks for the guidance. Actually I'm conversant with DIP profile & RRB in customer service.

But in PS I guess it may be used where the customer is billed based on material & service quantity.

But in my project milestone billing is the correct application.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

VINOD.V

[former_member195427]

Hi Vinod,

DIP profile is basically for RRB (resource related billing) only.Check the following link for it:

http://issuu.com/jlee_dassian/docs/resource_related_billing_configuration_and_usage

But in Milestone billing DIP profile is not used,Only a billing plan with proper milestone dates etc. with other configuration steps both in SD(more) and PS are required.

Search more on it in forum. You will find more detailed information on it.

Regards

Saurabh