Collective Invoicing / Posting on Sales Document level

[former_member601924]

Good morning,

In our company we have chosen to implement Collective Invoicing to enable periodic invoicing to customers where the invoice holds all the Sales Documents of that period.
Posting in SAP FI is also done for this Collective Invoice, but for some customers we would prefer posting on Sales Order level, without changing to Invoice creation on Sales Order level.
Does anybody has a solution ?
Currently we perform a manual posting, closing the collective invoice in Accounts Receivable and opening individual invoices.

[Lakshmipathi · Accepted solution]

but for some customers we would prefer posting on Sales Order level

Not clear with this statement. FI postings will always be against billing document and not against sale order. Having said that, do you have Periodic Billing Plan? Please share more information on what exactly the Business process is.

[former_member601924]

The Business Process in some African countries is as follows:
- we do issue a collective invoice 2 times per month holding the multiple sales orders
- in SAP FI (fbl5n) the invoices are posted as a single billing document (like you confirm)
- several customers do not pay per invoice, but per sales order
- it's not easy to allocate the payments, and in fbl5n you see the invoice is partly paid, but no specification which sales orders are unpaid

Customers do not want to receive an invoice per sales order but they do want to pay per sales order

So the requirement is:
- create 1 billing document per customer
- create open items in fbl5n per sales order