
Activating Nota Fiscal Creation in SD
For SAP R/3 to create a nota fiscal item, you need to activate nota fiscal creation on three different levels. In Customizing for Sales and Distribution (SD), under Billing ® Billing Documents ® Country-Specific Features ® Country-Specific Features for Brazil ®
Prerequisite to this activity: the sales document types for Brazil which are delivered via CATTs have to be defined in the system (see
For each sales document type that is relevant to nota fiscal creation, you need to assign a nota fiscal type, for example N1, Nota Fiscal Outgoing. Most of the sales document types for Brazil are identified by BR in the description, for instance, sales document type ORB for Standard Order BR.
For each billing type that is relevant to nota fiscal creation, you need to set the NF rel. (Nota Fiscal Relevance) indicator, and specify additional information such as the partner ID (for instance RE, bill-to party) and the maximum number of lines of text permitted for the header and line item.
For each combination of billing type and item category, you must activate nota fiscal creation by setting the NF relevance indicator.