avoid invoice split due to change of address in Sales order

[Former Member]

Hello Gurus,

I have one business scenario, where, bill to party address is different in sales order then customer master. Such orders are collectively billed and should generate  one invoice. ( all the sales order for a customer have same bill-to party address, bud different from customer master). In standard functionality it will split. I want to avoid split and in invoice bill to party address in sales order should be copied. Is there anybody have similar scenario faced before?

Regards, and thanks in advance,

Mukul

[Lakshmipathi]

Check this thread where similar topic was discussed

G. Lakshmipathi

[Former Member]

Hi Lakshmipathiji,

We have made similar changes but invoice is still spliting. Split analysis is showing

following are different. (These are invoice header data) how can we stop splitting for these criteria?

assignment number : as invoice number

reference number : as invoice number and

payment reference number

[Lakshmipathi]

We have made similar changes but invoice is still spliting

Have you tested with a new sale order after the change in customization?  Still if you face the issue, take the help of ABAPer, execute the program LV60AF0X where the source code is written for invoice split and analyse why in your case, invoice is splitting.  You can accordingly, change the coding to suit your requirement.

G. Lakshmipathi

[Former Member]

Hi Lakshmipathiji,

please find below screen shot, where we have address as one of the criteria. but other three criteria  has become my problem. ABAPer has able to remove address as split criteria but can't find how these three criteria is splitting invoice. They are nothing but invoice number and payment reference.  Can you help me with this?

Regards,

Mukul

[Lakshmipathi]

An invoice will not split due to payment reference and in your case, since, invoice has splitted due to some other reason, system will  show like that.

In normal circumstances, based on three criterias, you will get invoice split which has been very well explained in the following note:-

• Note 11162 - Invoice split criteria in billing document

Compare your settings based on the above note

G. Lakshmipathi

[prashant_sharma21]

Hello Mukul,

In you case Invoice is split due to different Bill to party address,

I face almost same issue in my last project in which one user change the Bill to party address after few minutes another user just change the Bill to party address by copy paste from customer master record. when I was checking the Billing split criteria I checked bill to party address and it was same. finally went through Split analysis and came to know Address code is different. when I went further analysis and came to know address was changed once.

As per standard SAP functionality when ever we create the Sales order/Delivery/Billing system copies the Address code from ADRC of customer master and put the same code in our sales document.

BUT when we change the address in our sales document it generates new address code. every time it generate new code no matter Address is same or different.

If you want to avoid Billing address from your split criteria you have to update the Data VBRK/VBRP and copying requirement in copy control.

Thanks,

Prashant Sharma