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The item is not relevant for billing. 3rd Party Sale

Former Member
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Hello, experts,

I have met a problem in 3rd party sale scenario. Here is the situation:

1. I have created a sales order using a 3re party item (item category: tas and billing type: order-related billing). And the PR is generated successfully at the schedule line level.

2. In the next step, I have created PO with reference to this PR.

3. As in my situation, the items are sent to customer by vendor directly, there is no need to maintain MIGO and MIRO.

4. I try to creat billing with reference to the sales order and here appears the error. The log shows:

"The item is not relevant for billing."

There are actually many threads in the forum and I have tried much of them.

I have checked firstly in VOV8 the sales order type->the order-related billing type for OR(standard sales order) is F2.

VOV7 the item category type->tas billing relevance: F (order-related billing)

VTFA the copy control->F2 with OR and in the item level, the item category tans is also maintained.

I can not decide where the problem is. Any idee?

Thanks,

Fan

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former_member550050
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Hi

3. As in my situation, the items are sent to customer by vendor directly, there is no need to maintain MIGO and MIRO.

This statement is absolutely wrong

MIGO is optional in third party transactions and MIRO is a Must

Third party item cat billing relevance is F

F: Order-related billing doc. - status according to invoice quantity

Relevant for order-related billing documents based on the invoice receipt quantity (third-party business transaction). The system transfers the order into the billing due list only after the vendor invoice has been received and processed in the purchasing department. After the receipt of each invoice, a customer invoice is created for the quantity that appears on the vendor invoice. The order has status "Billed" until the next vendor invoice is received.

Item category TAS (Third party item) is set up with billing relevance "F" in the standard system.

This is the SAP explanation of F billing relevance

Maintain the copy control settings in VTFA as suggested by the other friend

Without MIRO you cannot invoice the customer in third party

Regards

Raja

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Hi, Raja,

thank you for your reply. I still have the question: is this MIRO really a must? Do you have a resouce, e.g. the SAP documentation?

I have read somewhere else that we can also issue in this scenario the customer invoice before the vendor invoice reaches us. Is that right?

Best regards,

Fan

Former Member
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Hi,

I have just tried the MIRO. After I created the vendor invoice, the billing can be carried out without any problem. However, the warning message that "the item is not relevant for billing" still exists. I can not understand it. So I think I need to summarize my questions as following:

1. is MIRO really a must in 3rd party sale scenario? Is there any SAP official document for that?

2. what could be the reason for the warning message "the item is not relevant for billing"?

Thank you all for your help till now.

Regards,

Fan

Former Member
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Hi,

I found the answer to my first question: if the billing type is set as "F"(order-related billing), then MIRO is a must. Are there any other billing types except "F" that can be used in the 3rd party scenario?

Best regards,

Fan

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Answers (2)

Former Member
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Maintian Billing Relevance in Item Category as 'A', which is normal Order Related Billing. This will allow you to process Billing without MIGO or MIRO. This will treat the billing as regular order related Billing and 3rd Party requirement for generating PR will also be met.

Check it is 'A' or 'B', it should be one of them.

Regards,

Rajesh Banka

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Hello, Rajesh,

thank you for your help. I have checked it:

A: delievery-related billing: in this case, I doubt whether the pick process(transfer order) needs to be carried out. This is of course not the case for 3rd party item.

B: relevant for order-related billing-status according to order quantity. Do you mean this one, may be?

Best regards,

Fan

Former Member
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B: relevant for order-related billing-status according to order quantity. Do you mean this one, may be?

Yes you can proceed with this option. the risk here is whatever the order quantity is there, it will bill the total quantity. In genral weh ave the risk of short fall in deliveries from a vendor.

Venkat.

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B: relevant for order-related billing-status according to order quantity.

Regards,

Rajesh Banka

Former Member
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Hi,

First two setting is fine.

Go to VTFA and select your combination and to go item level.

Select your item category TAS and check these settings.

Copying requirement should be 012 which is order related 3rd party item.

Billing quantity F.

Pos/neg quantity can be +.

Pricing type can be G/D.

Now again try to create your billing document.

If still the problem exist then let us know

Regards

Raj.

Former Member
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Hi, Raj,

thank you for your replay. I have just checked at the item level and found that the settings are also correct.

Do you have other suggestions?

best regards,

Fan