Invoicing Enhancements, SD Integration 
Technical Name of Business Function |
FICAX_INV_1 |
Type of Business Function |
Industry Business Function |
Available As Of |
SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Technical Usage |
Financials |
Application Component |
Industry Component Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CAX) |
Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition |
Billing and Invoicing (FICAX_BILL_INVOICING) Contract Accounts A/R and A/P, 03 (FICAX_CI_3) |
If you create billing documents in Sales and Distribution (SD) but then transfer them to Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) for further processing, you can use this business function to process the SD billing documents directly in Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. This business function provides a more direct and simplified integration between Sales and Distribution (SD) and invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable than was available previously.
By providing direct reconcilation between invoicing in FI-CA and Sales and Distribution, this business function increases the transparency of your financial accounting data.
By entering a billing cycle at the level of the contract account, you can control the frequency with which your customers are billed. This enables you to ensure that your customers always receive their bills with the frequency that was agreed contractually.
In addition, with this business function, you can determine individual discounts and charges for the contract account of a customer during invoicing. All items of the invoice are able to be used as the basis for the discount or charge. The discount or charge key is assigned at the level of the contract account, which ensures that you can assign this type of discount or charge individually for each customer.
Prerequisites
You have installed the following components as of the specified version (or higher):
Type of Component
Component
Only Needed for the Following Functions
Software Component
EA-APPL 605
SAP_APPL 605
FI-CA 605
FI-CAX 605
You use the industry component Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CAX).
You activated the business function set Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FICAX).
You activated the business function Contract Accounts A/R and A/P, 03 (FICAX_CI_3).
You activated the business functions Billing and Invoicing (FICAX_BILL_INVOICING) and Invoicing Enhancements, SD Integration (FICAX_INV_1).
You configured the processes that you want to use in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable in Customizing.
To be able to use the features of this business function, you also have to make the settings described below in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.
You made specifications for the transfer to invoicing (under
Integration 
Sales and Distribution Define Posting to FI-CA for Customer Account Groups 
and under Define Settings for Transfer to Invoicing).As an alternative, you can make these settings in Customizing for Sales and Distribution under
Billing Billing Documents Integration with Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) .You made specifications for the derivation of control values from SD billing documents under
Integration Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Transfer of SD Billing Documents Derive Main/Sub-Transaction from SD Information and Derive Document Type from SD Billing Doc Data.
Features
Processing SD Billing Documents in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
You can process billing documents, which were created in Sales and Distribution (SD), directly in invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA), without having to create FI-CA sample documents. The SD billing documents are integrated in the invoicing document for invoice display, and are posted in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. You can use all central functions of invoicing in FI-CA on the items that were created for the SD billing documents.
There is a report you can use for reconciling FI-CA documents and SD billing documents. On the SAP Easy Access screen for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, choose Periodic Processing Reconciliation of Documents with Source Data Reconciliation with SD Billing Documents . (For more information, see the report documentation.)
Cancellation of Installment Plans
You can have the system automatically set all installments of an installment plan, which are not yet due, to the same due date as the invoice. This cancels the installment plan.
Write-Off of Receivables and Credits in Invoicing
You can write off receivables in invoicing. Typical reasons for write-off are that you are certain the business partner will not pay the receivable, or the costs of collection exceed the amount due. In the same way, you can write off credits that you cannot pay out to customers.
Discount at Invoice Level
In invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, you can now make charges and grant discounts individually at the contract account level. In addition, you can define block discounts, that means discounts for which the discount applied for the given base amount is dependent on the given interval.
Billing Cycle
Along with the scheduling that controls the date of execution of billing and invoicing, you can use billing cycles, which you define in Customizing and enter in the contract accounts of your business partners, to specify the frequency of invoicing. You can combine the control of the billing period with scheduling by making Customizing settings that synchronize the dates of execution with the billing cycle. For example, you can bill on a daily basis and invoice at the end of each period.