Purpose

The system can tell by the order reason that a request document comes from the automatic routines of the SD self-billing procedure.

The order reason also controls whether and how the billing item is relevant for retro-billing.

When processing a self-billing document, the system checks that the order reasons are correctly set. If they are not, the system terminates processing with an error message in the log.

Prerequisites

You have either:

Process Flow

You set the order reasons in the general parameters, under Settings → Maintain General Parameters in the Self-Billing Monitor.

These are the suggested settings, using the example order reasons from client 000:

*Usages of order reason for retro-billing1 = Request or credit/debit memo is for self-billingThis processing type is assigned to the order reasons used for transactions that are relevant to value only. In the retro-billing process, documents with these order reasons are included in calculating the total value, but no new price determination is carried out. 2 = Credit/debit memo is for retro-billing in case of price changeThis processing type is assigned to the order reasons used for transactions that are relevant to value and quantity. In the retro-billing process, a new price determination is carried out for documents with these order reasons. A new price determination is always carried out for billing documents (the initial billing document in self-billing) in retro-billing.

You must ensure that the self-billing order reasons are not used for any other normal postings, if you want to use the order reasons to identify documents from automatic SD self-billing. The verification step checks if the settings in the order reason are correct.