SAP SD SUPORTE: ERP SD Invoice Lists

Purpose

This article covers a simple example of Invoice List in SD-BIL area.

Overview

Invoice lists are mostly used to provide some benefits for payer when possible. Some benefits are the following:

To be able to consolidate/print several invoices into one.
Having billing date of invoices changed once it is consolidated. Customer may required submission of consolidated invoices by date.
Factory discount is applicable.

It is also benefitial to the seller while organizing the billing documents a invoices are grouped into one invoice list. It simplifies the control once there is only one payment which means that accounting document of invoice list takes place of all its invoices' account documents.

Depending on the payer's country the payer may pay tax for the discount provided. The condition type for factory discount is RL00 while its tax is MW15 (optional).

Settings

There are some settings before creating Invoice List, here they are:

In Billing Document Types make sure that Invoice List Type (LR) is assigned to the invoice to group (E.g: F2).
Make sure that copy control make use of requirement 016 from F2 to LR ( VTFF transaction ).
Set a calendar for Invoicing List Dates ( XD00 transaction ) to the related customer/payer.

4. Set RL00 (statistical) in the pricing procedure, for example:

5. Set condition record for RL00 ( VK11 transaction ).

You may want to set also in pricing procedure the tax MW15 (optional) and also to determine LR00 (invoice list header) to create printing papers output automatically.