Special Features of Archiving in Intellectual Property Management

In principle, it is possible to archive older billing documents. However, in contrast to SAP CRM billing, IPM billing may produce dependencies between billing documents as a result of the difference calculation and clearing logic, internal clearing, multiple payees, or accruals. These dependencies mean that the residence time cannot be used as a sole criteria to determine whether a billing document can be archived. If a billing document contains items that are relevant to the difference calculation and clearing logic, internal clearing, multiple payees or accruals, the system performs additional checks to ensure that the billing document is not archived if it contains any items that are still required for follow-up processes.

You should therefore observe the fact that the last billing item in a difference group is required to create the next correction item, and can therefore only be archived if the contract has already been archived.