Sales scenario (monthly deduction)

[Former Member]

Dear all,

Need your guidance on executing this process as below:

1. Company will purchase the goods required by the worker.

2. Worker will purchase the goods from the company (this is treated as normal sales scenario - not intercompany sales)

3. Delivery is carried out. (automatically - can be triggered via cash sales scenario)

4. Billing run is executed.

The issue:

1. The item sold by the Company to the staff may cost USD1,000 for example. Though billing is done, monthly deduction from the staff's salary per month basis is required instead of carrying out a cash sales (full payment upfront).

Hence, the deduction per month may look something like this:

Jan: USD 100

Feb: USD 100

Mar: USD 100

Apr: USD 100

(and so forth until full payment is done.. in Oct)

2. I figured that we can execute this using Billing Plan, with the amount or percentage laid out in the Schedule Line and each month, the Billing block is released and Billing is done. Staff that purchase from the company will each have a customer master.

Please advise if this is possible? Or is there any other alternative for this scenario?

Thanks.

Regards.

[former_member183879]

Hi,

You can enable the functionality by means of a periodic billing plan. But I dont know whether you can block the document for billing everytime and then release it before billing for the specific period.

You can read the OSS notes 831158 and 532876 to know more about how the revenue can be recognised in this scenario.

[former_member183879]

Hi PKW,

Have a look at the note 92655. It exactly answers ur scenario

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have checked, yes the note partially meet the requirement I was looking for.

I have configured the Billing Plan, but however, for an item, the total price is not separated over the entire validity period.

For example:

Material A = USD1,000

Valid From: Today's date

Valid To: 31.12.2010

I have the below problem:

1. The Billing Plan generated 5 billing plan item(s) priced at USD1,000 each, hence I have a Net Value of USD 5,000 as a result.

2. And for each billing plan line, the billing date is next two months.

3. Eventhough a Billing block has been automatically set for each billing plan. I am able to execute Billing (Order-related) and there is a Billing Split (which is mainly due to the different Billing Date set for each of the billing plan item). And, I have only released one billing plan, but I still see all 5 billing plan lines appearing during Billing. Shouldn't only one line appear since only one line has the Billing block removed?

Please assist.

Thanks.

[former_member183879]

Hi PKW,

The OSS note explains this problem only and it is trying to give the solution for the problem of the value not getting shared across the billing dates. Please read the notes 92655 and do as instructed. This should solve ur problem.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for your comment. Applied the SAP note, is working, but I do not want it to be spread over a period of 12 months basis..

Is there a way to modify this routine so that it is dynamic to calculate the period to divide with based on the end date - start date of the billing plan horizon?

Please advise.

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Need some feedback on this.. Anyone came across this scenario and achieved this "staff loan" scenario in SD before?

As far as I know, it is possible to achieve this in HR module, but we are not using HR module at the moment..

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hi

You are right. Billing plan is the right option to set monthly billing once the order for staff sale is created and proceed with that.

Regards,

Siva