Billing document without number

[Former Member]

Dears, we have a billing document which was created, but it does not have a number. It is related to a delivery. When we go in the document flow we can see there is an invoice, but it does not have a number and appears as blocked. We cannot display the document from the document flow, as SAP requires to populate a billing document number.

Could you please advise how to proceed.

Thanks!

[ravi_kumar100]

Hi,

Try the below :

Pass the Preceding Document number - VBELV ( Delivery Number ) into the VBFA table and check if any entry is there for Follow-on doc -VBELN ( Invoice Number ).

Are you able to generate any other invoice numbers for other delivery documents or you still get the empty invoice numbers.

Regards,

SRK

[Former Member]

Thanks, but nonoe of us has access to look at tables in the production system.

[christian_rosa]

Hello,

Have you considered cancelling invoice and tried to recreate it?

It might be due to either NRIV number collecting or user-exit.

There is no known SAP bugfix for this issue.

Best Regards,
Christian Rosa

[Former Member]

Thanks, but again, even if we want to cancel, we need to populate the number of the document which we want to cancel and there is no such number.

[siva_vasireddy2]

Hi,

Go to VFX3 and check if this invoice is displayed there without number

[Former Member]

same issue, SAP is saying - Populate billing document number

[siva_vasireddy2]

Hi,

i will get back to you with actual reason for the inconsistency.

Mean while Experts need to Look into it.

[Former Member]

Thanks!

[siva_vasireddy2]

Hi,

Did you check what number range is assigned to this billing document type.

[Former Member]

Yes, I did; and we have other invoice for the same payer, sales org, document type and there are no issues with them.

[siva_vasireddy2]

hi,

Since you are not able to See the invoice,did you try to create the invoice again for the same delivery

[Former Member]

Unfortunately not possible, as we get the message that the delivery was already fully invoiced.

[siva_vasireddy2]

Hi,

As  the invoice has not posted to accounting,you can close the Invoice in VF02---Shift+F5

The invoice number is not generated due to the Buffering problem which can be well explained by Basis guy

[Former Member]

Thanks, but in VF02 we need to populate the invoice number and there is no such number.

[former_member184701]

can you please publish a screenshot ?

[Former Member]

Hi, Please, find attached the screen shot.