Billing plan start/end date not carrying over from contract into debit note

[Former Member]

Hello,

Since the last large SAP update that happened a few months back, whenever I attempt to create a ZMCL debit note with reference to an original YMI0 invoice from a YWV Service contract, the billing date for said debit note is created empty:

The dates need to be input manually for each item, as opposed to being filled in by the system automatically.

This would not be a big issue if it were only a couple of invoices, but whenever one has to go through 20+ invoices each with multiple lines, it easily multiplies the amount of effort that would otherwise be necessary.

Now, this used to be the case when creating debit notes with reference to YMI0 invoices manually created by the user, but this is NOT the case, all the invoices from said contract were generated by the system.

This has only started happening a few months back.

Credit notes, as opposed to debit notes, do not suffer from this issue, their billing plans ALWAYS carry over correctly.

Now I am wondering whether there is some sort of a contract setting needing adjustment that I am missing, or wherever the issue lies, but I would be eternally grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks a lot!

[Lakshmipathi]

It is not necessary to key in at item level. In contract, at header level itself, you can see the fields Contract Start date and End date. Have you tried to key in at header level?