Unable to create export proforma invoice for one particular material

[Former Member]

Dear Everyone,

The user created a consignment sales order and then created outbound delivery in SAP. But, when he is trying to create export proforma invoice, the system says: This document is not relevant for billing. Please find below the screen shot.

The item category is KBN and the billing relevance is J. In fact, the user had created export proforma invoice earlier with KBN item category and billing relevance J.

The user is trying to process export proforma invoice 1st time for this particular material.

Could you please suggest me what could possible be the reason?

Regards,

Anwar

[Former Member]

Hi Anwar,

As it is said by Alex regarding billing relevance indicator J, you may need to follow that procedure or according to standard SAP,

"D: Relevant for pro forma

To create a pro forma invoice, the billing relevance indicator must be blank.

Check below link for more information.

Billing Relevance - Billing (SD-BIL) - SAP Library

Hope it helps.

Kind Regards,

Jaydip

[alex_zheng]

Hi Anwar,

This error is being issued at header level when checking VBUK-FKSTK of the delivery.

If VBUK-FKSTK = blank, VF016 gets issued.

This is not related with the material that you've entered in the delivery, but more relevant with the billing relevance setting "J".

The header billing status VBUK-FKSTK gets detemined based on item billing status VBUP-FKSTA.

In case of billing relevance 'J' "Relevant for cross EC country deliveries" the outbound delivery is only relevant for billing if

1. the "Plants abroad" is active in customizing
2. country of departure (where plant is located) and destination country (country of ship-to party) are different EU countries.

You can find the relevant logic in FORM VBUP-FKSTA_EG (include LV50PFUP).

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Alex

[former_member131691]

Hi Anwar

The VF016 error message will be being raised in the copy routine you have assigned in TVCPL.
In transaction VTFL for this order, delivery and item category check the routines you have in place.
The routine will be checking the billing relevance in VBUK and/or VBUP (FKSTK - FKSTA)
these statuses are normally determined using the LIPS-FKREL field value.

You can check what check routines you have in place and check the field contents of the above
in your previous example that worked as expected. It would seem that either the above statues are
different from before due to a customising change or the copy requirements you have in place now
are checking something they never checked before. For a proforma I guess you don't have to check the billing relevance in any case so you r users can create a document in VF01. So you could always create your own routine to make sure the proforma can be created as and when required, it should have no bearing on the status or the actual billing.

Hope it helps
Kind regards
Brian