Take Back

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are in the process of rolling out the SAP IS-Auto solution for an automotive major in a European company. There will be invoices (F2 documents) created for a single line item (material) to the customers. It is legally not allowed to return or cancel the F2 document with a returns or a credit memo. This has to be negated with an invoice from the customer (which is being referred to as take back) after which the material would become a stock again. Hence, the old invoice F2 will continue to exist. It should be possible to invoice this stock material to a new customer leading to the existence of more than one F2 document on the same material.

My query is on the existence of more than one F2 document on the same material (a single line item).

Could someone kindly give pointers to this scenario and if something of this sort has been already addressed?

Thanks & Regards,

Vinod

[Jelena]

I'm curious - what country is this? It sounds really messed up... I would understand that it wouldn't be allowed to cancel an invoice (VF11), but what's wrong with a return order (RE) / credit memo (CR)? What if there is an issue with a quality?

If this indeed was a legal requirement in a EU country and RE could not be used, SAP would've addressed this. If they haven't, then I agree - send them a note.

[Lakshmipathi]

It is a standard SAP feature that for any returns, you have to creaite a return delivery followed by credit note and with the generation of credit note only, your accounting entries will get nullified.

If this is not legally allowed in the country of your client, then they have to refer SAP only who have to address this legal requirement. Raise a note on SAP.

G. Lakshmipathi

[Former Member]

Hi,

This process is normally known as "Buy Back" as well! Just to keep the goodwill of the customer, certain business take it back and they are not reporting it as a return.

First check how you have to report VAT in this case. I assume you will have to report VAT as input.

Therefore standard process would be to create a purchase order for this and buy it from the customer.

Normally it is not legally allowed to report your VAT as output VAT return.

Else you have to create a return order for this article (with reference to the F2 Billing) and re-determine your VAT in the return order with a input tax code. For this you need to configure another tax code in the pricing procedure which has same access sequence as your VAT, but Vk11 created with input tax codes.

Check the possibility of above 2 suggestions!

Best regards,

Simon