Technical Name of Business Function |
LOG_SD_COMMODITY |
Type of Business Function |
Enterprise Business Function |
Available From |
SAP enhancement package 6 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Technical Usage |
Central Applications |
Application Component |
|
Required Business Function |
Commodity Pricing Engine: BAdI-Based Formula Handling ( |
You can use this business function to activate the process of differential billing within Sales and Distribution (SD) billing.
The key feature of this process is that you can repeatedly bill a delivery or sales order item with its full quantity. The business background for this functionality is commodity trading. The final price and invoice for the goods delivered is typically agreed upon weeks or months after the loading process. Within this time frame a long term average of price quotations for the commodity is calculated to account for the price risk of the deal. Moreover, the quantity and quality of the goods may be redetermined. On the other hand it is common business practice to have an early provisional invoice shortly after loading based on plausible values for price, quantity and quality. Differential invoices may occur in between whenever appropriate.
You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:
Type of Component |
Component |
Required for the Following Features Only |
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Software Component |
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Within Customizing of Sales and Distribution
two new billing types, F2D1
with
billing category N for provisional/differential
and F2D2
with billing category O for final
, are delivered as standard to enable this process. Corresponding copying control entries are delivered within Maintain
Copying Control for Billing Documents
for delivery type LF
and item category TAN
.
For more information see Business Function Commoditiy Pricing Engine.
The differential functionality is established by billing the delivery or sales order item as of new and copying the immediate predecessor invoice item negatively into the invoice. The pair then represents the difference.
Within the billing dialogue, a new screen is provided to visualize the difference in pricing conditions of the item pair.
As of standard, two new billing types, F2D1
for provisional/differential
and F2D2
for final
, are delivered to enable this process. The billing status of delivery or sales
order item is set to an intermediate state by the provisional/differential invoices and finalized by the final invoice.
SAP Commodity Pricing Engine
is required to allow for the provisional and final pricing based on price quotations.