Billing encompasses invoices, credit and debit memos, pro forma invoices, and cancellation documents. Billing concludes a business transaction in Sales and Distribution. Billing documents are usually created as follows:

• with reference to a sales order
• with reference to a delivery

You can define the conditions under which a sales and distribution document is to be created in Customizing in the copy control parameters.

Starting with AFS release 2.5, a user interface with tab pages is available for processing billing documents. The following AFS-specific tab pages are available:

• AFS Item overview
• AFS Pricing

You can create billing documents with reference to a sales order or a delivery. You can refer to the entire document, individual items, or parts thereof.

You have the following options for creating billing documents:

• automatic background processing of the billing due list
• manual processing of the billing due list
• explicit billing for a delivery or an order. In this case you can bill the entire document, individual items, or parts thereof.

You can use the following forms of settlement:

• combine multiple SD documents into a collective billing document
• multiple billings of one or more SD documents (invoice split)
• individual billing documents for each SD document

For further information, see the R/3 Standard documentation for billing.