Periodic billing doubt

Hi,
As per our business,in case of periodic billing there is a nightly batch job that runs and generates Invoices as per the periodic plan in a sales order.
However in the month of February 2009 it somehow picked one of the past date order and tried to invoice it. So, the system gave a log of "Date 20071130 has already been billed (billing plan)".
I am not sure as to why the system picks up the previous date order and tried to Invoice. This has never happened before but happened for the first time.
What could be the possible cause of it?
Please let me know in case anything is not clear

usually in periodic billing billing happens at perticulat period in this case there may be many causes due to which this has happened
1 due to factory calender settings
2 due to reservation on particular day
3 manual changes done by some one
please refer to these links for further clearity
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/dd/560fdd545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/content.htm
http://support.digitalrez.com/roshelp/Periodic_Billing.htm
http://www.shef.ac.uk/content/1/c6/06/17/31/TR_MAR_Creating_Periodic_Billing_Plans_GMGRANT.doc.

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