Invoice Summary 
Use
In Japan, companies are required to carry out the process of ‘Shimeseikyu’. This process is unique to Japanese business practice and involves the following process steps:
· Invoicing – Creation of monthly invoices
· Printing of monthly invoices
· Clearing – Receipt of payment data, automatic identification of open items, clearing of open items
· Reporting – Status report of billed and non-billed items
The SAP Invoice Summary solution provides functions to perform the required process steps for invoice summary, according to Japanese requirements, for the following document types: invoices, credit memos, and downpayment requests (parked and cleared documents are not included).
The solution consists of the following:
For more information, see the individual documentation for each process step.
Prerequisites
Before you can run the reports, you have to carry out the IMG activities and, if necessary, activate the BAdI implementation, as specified in the individual report documentation. In addition, you also have to maintain customer/vendor master data. To do this, you first have to activate the two BAdI implementations for master data in Customizing for Financial Accounting by choosing Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable ® Business Transactions ® Country-Specific Settings ® Japan ® Invoice Summary: BAdI Enhancements ®Master Data. You also require a Japanese company code, which you assign in the IMG activity Define Line Items in Customizing for Financial Accounting by choosing Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable ® Business Transactions ®Country-Specific Settings ® Japan ®Invoice Summary: Standard Customizing Settings ® Define Line Items. To maintain the master data, proceed as follows:
Customer master data
You first have to set up an invoice summary hierarchy. To do this, you have to assign the IS roles Payer, Recipient, and Customer to the relevant customers and maintain the relationships between them.
To do this, in the SAP Easy Access menu, choose Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® Accounts Receivable ® Master Records ® Create. On the Create Customer: General Data screen, enter the required data and choose the Data for Invoice Summary (Japan) pushbutton. In the subsequent screen, on the Role tab page, select Payer, Recipient, or Customer as required (note that you have to create the payer first, then the recipient, and lastly the customer), assign the relevant invoice summary attributes to each role, and maintain the following relationships between these three roles (where N = any number):
N Monthly Invoice (MI) recipient(s): 1 Payer Invoice (PI) Payer
N Customer(s): 1 MI recipient
To do this, proceed as follows:
1. Assign the PI Payer on the MI Recipient master record
2. Assign the MI Recipient on the Customer master record
A payer
can also have the role of a recipient or a customer, and a recipient can also
have the role of a customer.
Vendor master data
If you want to include accounts payable documents in monthly invoices, you also have to maintain the relationship between the relevant vendor and customer for invoice summary.
To do this, in the SAP Easy Access menu, choose Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® Accounts Payable ® Master Records ® Create. On the Create Vendor: General Data screen, choose the Next Screen (arrow) pushbutton to navigate to the Control screen, and enter the associated customer number in the Customer field in the Account Control dialog box. Choose the Next Screen (arrow) pushbutton again until you reach the Create Vendor: Payment Transaction Accounting screen and then select the Clearing with Customer checkbox in the Automatic Payment Transactions dialog box.
When you have maintained your customer/vendor master data for invoice summary, the Invoice Summary pushbutton appears when you create FI documents. You can then maintain the data required for invoice summary for each FI document that is to be included in the process.