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Apr 22, 2010 at 06:34 PM

Grantee Management - Billing - RRB on Liabilities - need an enhancement ?

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It seems like there is no way to configure RRB on Liabiltiies without an enhancement.

Scenario - Grant Billing where it may be on acccrals, liabilities or payments - one Billing Rule for each. No problem with RRB for Accruals (AP Invoices, GR/IR - using VT = 99) or RRB for Payments (using VT = 57). And no issue if unvaluated Goods Receipts (since invoice is accrual point with VT = 99).

The problem is with the "Valuated GR" scenario, which is perfectly valid for Public Sector, and when grant billing needs to e on the Invoice, not the Goods eceipt. There are several points to contend with :

1. GR/IR accrual needs to be ignored - so these account postings can be put in a GM Value Type Zn which is not billed for Liabilities (this has Debit to VT = 99 and Credit to VT = 54).

2. Invoice posting - Billing on VT = 54 to the Vendor (Liability Account) - this is a credit and will be billed with the wrong sign unless the VT = 54 is defined as "Payments" and so the SAP hard-coded program will multiply the credit entry by -1 and bill correctly.

Great so far. But then :

3. When the invoice is paid, we get the credit to cash outwards clearing and debit to Vendor (clearing the invoice) - and this debit it will be included in the RRB selection.

So I exepct an enhancement is needed to that for the RRB on Liabilities so the Doc Type can be checked.

- For an vendor invoice, the sign can be flipped (otional, so VT = 54 can be defined as a Actual and not a Payment).

- For the Payment document the VT = 54 can be ignored.

Note : none of the standard config is FI Doc Type related.

Several of my colleagues have come to the same conclusion - that an enhancement is needed. Have I missed something, or has SAP missed something ?