Avoid invoice split on sold to party

[Former Member]

Hi,

What is the best way to avoid invoice split for sold to party when having a lot of DMR's created for several sold to parties doing collective billing? Some customers would like a single invoice for several sold to parties. Also, are there any issues regarding pricing?

By the way, we are doing order related billing

Kind regards

[Former Member]

hello, friend.

do i understand correctly you want to collectively invoice multiple transactions with the same payer but with different sold-to parties?

if so, i think this is not possible as in table VBRK, there is a field for sold-to party. this is header data. sold-to is, therefore, a splitting criterion.

regards.

[Former Member]

do i understand correctly you want to collectively invoice multiple transactions with the same payer but with different sold-to parties?
if so, i think this is not possible as in table VBRK, there is a field for sold-to party. this is header data. sold-to is, therefore, a splitting criterion.

Yes, that is our requirement. We thought of making z-table changing all the different sold to parties during billing to a dummy sold to party. But we are facing issues since we are doing price update at billing time, and a lot of our conditions are related to sold to party.

Are there any user exit we could look into?

[Former Member]

hello again.

i guess you could always use ABAP for enhancements... but i would strongly argue against that approach. rather, i would define another partner function. let the SP represent your main customer, and let the new partner represent the different "sold-tos".

but if there are other compelling reasons for your requirements, please let us know. i'm sure there could be a viable work-around.

regards.

[Former Member]

i guess you could always use ABAP for enhancements... but i would strongly argue against that approach. rather, i would define another partner function. let the SP represent your main customer, and let the new partner represent the different "sold-tos".
but if there are other compelling reasons for your requirements, please let us know. i'm sure there could be a viable work-around.

Our issue with the above approach is that we already have a lot of contracts and created DMR's with different sold-to-parties. It will totally re-arrange the structure which is already been built up for this customers. We are also doing pricing in hiearchy for this kind of customers, hence already using original sold-to-party numbers in node structures.

[Former Member]

i see..........

so you're using hierarchy.... customer hierarchy?

anyway... you're right. but i hope another consultant could come up with a viable alternative.

cheers!!!

[Former Member]

Simen,

First of all I assume you are using the sold-to-party as Payer too.

In that case you are expecting to have same invoices for multiple payers, which is not possible as PAYER is default split criteria in invoicing.

My opinion is to create a Invoice list for all the invoices of all the related payers and send the single invoices list that consists of Invoices #, Customer PO# and amt to the customer.

Please let me know if you need any more details.

Regards,

Aj.

[Former Member]

First of all I assume you are using the sold-to-party as Payer too.
In that case you are expecting to have same invoices for multiple payers, which is not possible as PAYER is default split criteria in invoicing.

We are using many sold-to parties, but same payer for all related DMR to be invoiced.

[Former Member]

We are using many sold-to parties, but same payer for all related DMR to be invoiced.

.........Simon, if you have same payer then the invoice should not split because of the customer. System combines all the invoices with Same payer and Billing date.

Check the split analysis which field is causing the splitting of invoices.

[Former Member]

We are using many sold-to parties, but same payer for all related DMR to be invoiced.
.........Simon, if you have same payer then the invoice should not split because of the customer. System combines all the invoices with Same payer and Billing date.
Check the split analysis which field is causing the splitting of invoices.

I have done a test, two DMR created, using VF04 i get following split analysis:

Split due to different partner data

PR Fld Name $000000001 $000000002

SP Customer Number 1 0000188957 0000188971

SP Address 0000378370 0000378424

Split due to different header data

Fld Name $000000001 $000000002

Sold-to party 0000188957 0000188971

Are you able to check if you have any special copy control rules to avoid the split functionality or if you are using any user exits to achieve this?

[Lalit]

Hi,

Please check SAP Note 43067.

Regards,