Hierarchy
EA-APPL (Software Component) SAP Enterprise Extension PLM, SCM, Financials⤷
SD-BIL-IV-SBI (Application Component) Self-Billing Proced.⤷
VASB (Package) Application Development R/3 Sales / Self-Billing Process
Basic Data
| Data Element | SBWAP_ACTIVE |
| Short Description | Date on Which Self-Billing Procedure Was Converted |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | DATE | |
| Data Type | DATS | Date field (YYYYMMDD) stored as char(8) |
| Length | 8 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 10 | |
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Further Characteristics
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| Change document | ||
| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | CoDat |
| Medium | 15 | Conversion Date |
| Long | 20 | Conversion Date |
| Heading | 10 | CoDat |
Documentation
Definition
Specifies the date of changeover, on which SD self-billing (SBWAP) is/was used for the first time.
Use
If you have been using the SAP System and you have created documents in the SD component, then the following problem will arise when you implement self-billing with automatic postings (SBWAP): The system cannot process billing documents in the document flow of the corresponding delivery correctly if they were created and processed before SD self-billing was implemented.
The reason for this is that self-billing uses a reference that indicates which billing documents in the document flow of a delivery are considered completed and which are considered open.
The system can only create this reference correctly when self-billing is actually used. Therefore, you can use the date of changeover to define a point in time to define when you started using self-billing. This makes the following processing scenarios possible:
1.) Clearing Invoice and Billing Documents before the Changeover Date
If you receive data representing a clearing invoice for a delivery, ALL billing documents in the document flow of the delivery with a billing date BEFORE the changeover date are considered completed.
This means that self-billing only used the data which has been transmitted to calculate a possible difference value and that the values in the billing documents in the document flow did not affect this calculation.
For billing documents in the document flow of the corresponding delivery whose billing date is on or after the date of changeover, the system uses the above-mentioned reference of the self-billing procedure in order to decide whether the billing document is considered open or completed.
2.) Normal Self-Billing Document and Billing Documents Before the Date of Changeover
If you receive data representing a normal self-billing document for a delivery, billing documents in the document flow of the delivery with a billing date BEFORE the changeover date are always considered open.
In this case, the system compares the data which has been transferred with the billing document. The billing document and clearing postings, which the system might have created, are updated with the so-called main reference.
This means that the system assumes that you receive exactly one credit memo for each delivery, whereas all further data which is transferred is passed on to self-billing as clearing invoices.
The deliveries involved are, above all, deliveries which you created and initially billed before the implementation of SBWAP, and whose self-billing documents you process with the new self-billing procedure.
For billing documents in the document flow of the corresponding delivery whose billing date is on or after the date of changeover, the system uses the above-mentioned reference of the self-billing procedure in order to decide whether the billing document is considered open or completed.
Dependencies
Detail Information for Clearing Invoices and Self-Billing Documents
When clearing invoices are transferred to self-billing, the segment/field E1EDK01/ACTION in the IDoc header must contain the value '006'.
When self-billing documents are transferred to self-billing, the segment/field E1EDK01/ACTION in the IDoc header must contain the value '005'.
The mapping carried out by the EDI subsystem generally ensures that the segments/fields are filled with the correct values.
The common transmission standards like VDA 4908 or ANSI 820 have fields which allow you to distinguish self-billing documents from clearing invoices ("Retroactive Billing", "Retroactive Price Changes", "Adjustments").
For further details on the ACTION codes, refer to the online documentation.
Example
You have been using the SD component of the SAP System in the past and are now implementing self-billing (SBWAP).
- You want the system to first use self-billing (after the 'Go live' date on Oct. 1, 2001) during the night of Oct. 3, 2001.
Therefore, you set Oct. 3, 2001 as date of changeover. - There are 500 deliveries for customers who use self-billing in the SAP System. These deliveries were created and initially billed before Oct. 3, 2001. The self-billing procedure is now used to receive and process the credit memo data (cf. ACTION Code '005') for the deliveries.
- All billing documents contained in the document flow of the 500 deliveries mentioned above are considered as completely settled. Due to internal retroactive billing runs, there may be credit or debit memos in the system which were created after the date of changeover (cf. ACTION Code '006t'). These credit or debit memos cannot be regarded as open.
The system processes all credit memos for the 500 deliveries by matching them with the initial billing documents.
The system marks the billing documents which have been processed as completed and also interprets them correctly later on (especially if data of a clearing invoice is received for a delivery).
If (due to retroactive price changes) customers send clearing invoices for deliveries, the system interprets the document flow of the billing documents like this:
- According to the definition, all billing documents before/on the date of changeover are completed.
- The system interprets the SBWAP reference in order to decide whether billing documents after the date of changeover are completed or open.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20030411 |
| SAP Release Created in | 46C |
