You must make certain settings for copying control and item category assignment in Customizing for Sales and Distribution so that the system can create documents in SD for automatic postings from self-billing. The following overview shows which settings you should check/make.
Customizing setting to be checked | Location in Customizing | Notes |
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Delivery-related billing types in the order types used |
| Here, you must check which delivery-related billing types you use. For example, deliveries for a customer's LZ scheduling agreements are settled using the self-billing procedure. The delivery-related billing type could be defined as This billing type creates the 'initial' invoice. All further documents created in the SD self-billing procedure refer back to this initial invoice for the delivery. Copying control must also be set so that documents can be created automatically: see below. |
Sales document types | As above | As an option, 2 new order types ( Check which order-related billing types are used per sales document type (here: for credit or debit memo request). If you are proceeding as recommend by SAP, you should make the following assignments: Sales doc. type Order-rel. billing doc.
If you have assigned item categories directly in the application, under General Parameters, you do not need the document types |
Copying Control: Billing Document → Sales Document (Header) |
| Here, you check that copying control exists for the billing type for the initial billing document to the credit/debit memo requests. The example shows the assignments that should be made if you use the new credit and debit memo requests for F1 and F2 billing documents: Example:
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( and so on. It is not necessary to make these settings unless you use |
Copying Control: Billing Document → Sales Document (Item) | As above | Here, you check that copying control exists and is correctly set for item categories from the initial billing document to item categories for the sales document types for request documents. If the new, exclusively value-based debit/credit memo requests are to be created for an item from the initial billing document, you must set that, that the new value item categories Example: Source Target
and so on. You must make the settings for all item categories (from the source documents) that you use. If you use |
Copying Control: Sales Document → Billing Document |
| Here, you set that the order types Example: Tgt bill. type Srce order type
For each combination, only the necessary entries for the item categories The target item category is(blank) so that it is adopted directly from the appropriate request document. These settings are not required if you do not use the new document types |