Billing the Sales Order (SD) FICO

Use

Billing is the concluding activity in Sales and Distribution. When you create a billing document, you always refer to a reference document, i.e. in this case to the delivery of the 2 pumps. The sale is not posted in Financial Accounting until this process. A customer receivable is thus created.

Procedure

1. Call up the transaction as follows:

Menu Path	Logistics ® Sales ® Billing ® Billing document ® Create
Transaction Code	VF01

The number of the delivery you just created is displayed in the Document field. If this is not the case, change the entry accordingly.

2. Choose .
3. Select the billing item you created and choose .

The system displays detailed billing document data, price data, accounting data, and order data for this item.

4. Choose the Item partners tab.

The system displays the various partners connected with this business transaction here. The bill-to and sold-to parties have the same customer number. The payer (pays the bill) has the number 1050 (IDES DE) or 3050 (IDES US).

5. Choose twice.
6. Choose .
7. Note the number.

The transaction does not only mean that the billing document has been saved in the SD system but that the billing data has also been transferred automatically to Financial Accounting, the Profit Center and Profitability Analysis. The data also goes to the Treasury; however, a document is not created.

8. Choose .
9. Call up the transaction as follows:

Menu Path	On the Create Billing Document screen, select Billing document ® Display.
Transaction Code	VF03; FB03; KSB5

The document number is already entered in the field.

10. To display the billing item again, choose .
11. Choose Accounting.
12. In the dialog box, choose Accounting document.
13. Double-click on the customer account.

You can see that the receivable and the sale have been posted in the business area 1000 (mechanical engineering). The material P-109 was produced in the plant 1000 (Hamburg) and belongs to the division 01 (pumps). This combination led to the posting in this business area.

14. Note the bline date for payment.
15. Choose twice.
16. In the dialog box, choose Profitability Analysis.
17. Choose the Characteristics tab page.
18. To display invoice header data like customer’s name and sales order number, choose .

The material P-109 is allocated to the Profit Center 1010 (3010). This was automatically copied to this Profit Center.

19. Choose .
20. In the dialog box, choose Cost accounting doc.
21. Choose .

The object type PRw means that this concerns a profitability segment. The sale was copied to the cost element 800000 in the accounting Profitability Analysis.

22. Choose .
23. In the Display Actual Cost Documents dialog box, choose Yes.
24. To close the dialog box, choose .
25. Choose until the overview tree appears.