Dear All,
We are using ECC 6.0 EHP5.0 with single instance worldwide, one controlling area, one global chart of account and one fiscal year for all company codes in SAP and for each company code we have 1:1 mapping to sales organization.
We are in process of implementing "Condition based Down payment" with conjunction with a billing Plan but the billing plans is not including any down payment items .
We followed the SAP best practices guide to setup the condition types and pricing procedure per the guide
http://help.sap.com/bp_retail603/BBLibrary/Documentation/732_BB_ConfigGuide_EN_US.doc
We followed the following process:
1. Created a regular Sales order with 2 items with a total value of say 5,000 GBP and entered a value for condition AZWA in the sales order header for 1,000 GBP
2. Entered a down payment for that amount (1,000 GBP) using t-code (F-29). In F-29 we entered the special G/L indicator = A (downpayment) and tried to reference the sales order number. However, the system gave error message u201CMessage no. V1125 - Enter the item numberu201D so we were forced to enter the payment at the line item level.
3. Created the invoice for this item and received the expected value in the AZWB pricing condition but the accounting document did NOT settle the down-payment amount per the value in AZWB.
We have the following questions:
1. How can we make the F-29 payment using only the sales order number (i.e. at the header levelu2026without the line item)? The SAP Help implies that this is possible. (http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_05/helpdata/EN/dd/560e4b545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/frameset.htm) in the Down Payment Processing (Basis: Document Condition) section under u2018Incoming Paymentsu2019 it says u2018The system summarily posts the payment to the sales order number, not item-specificallyu2019. It then also says u2018Aside from this it is possible to post the incoming payment directly in the financial accounting (transaction F-29). The important thing here is that the financial accounting item contains a reference to the sales order number. It is also possible to post item-specific down payments.u2019
2. During Final Billing, how and we get the accounting document to settle the down-payment amount per the value in condition type AZWB. In the billing-plan process, the final billing settles the downpayment. We want the condition based final billing to act in a similar way and do not want to have to perform a manual downpayment settlement separately (via F-39).
Thank you in advance,
Vicki