[542] in sapr3-soft
Automatizing Pass-Through Billing in R/3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Juhani Jaakola)
Mon Oct 27 08:38:57 1997
To: sapr3-soft@MIT.EDU
Date: 27 Oct 1997 08:12:08 -0600
From: Juhani Jaakola <juhani.jaakola@pp.kolumbus.fi> (by way of SAP Moderator <sap-request@realtimeusa.com>)
We need to automatize (using EDI) the following billing between
supplier->us->customer. The whole process goes like this:
-The customer orders products directly from the supplier
-The supplier delivers directly the products to the customer
-The supplier sends us via EDI bill B from those goods
-We treat that bill (B) as a purchase invoice
-We generate a sales invoice from the invoice B. The sales invoice is
sent to the customer.
-Later we pay the generated purchase invoice to the supplier and get the
payment from the customer.
As you can see, our role is maintaining negotiated agreements with many
suppliers and customers. And we are responsible for the actual billing.
The sales invoice has all the products from the bill B (and the
corresponding purchase invoice). We don't have to check the bill in any
way, we trust the supplier.
The price of the products in the sales invoice is either
-same as in bill B (in which case we have a favorable payment term) or
-determined by R/3 pricing conditions
We want to have the billing amount in our revenue. The revenue must
accumulate to the supplier and customer too.
So far we have tried to program such a process in ABAP/4 using Batch
Input to create all the necessary documents (quite a lot, or we have
understood something incorrectly). We are not at all satisfied with this
method: it's too hard to program and inherently unreliable. It's
possible that after we have made the sales order document (which we
don't need except for statistics, right?) a later step (such as purchase
request or purchase order or invoice verification) fails leaving
dangling documents. At minimum, we'd like to "roll back" the earlier
documents in case any later document fails (a typical multi-part
transaction).
Any SAP developers listening, is there any plans to support a process
like this one?
Any other companies having the same problem? What if we identify
ourselves and make a joint development request to SAP?
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