Cost/Cost business rule

Dear All,
I have one business scenario where I have requirement as below.
I have one project with Distribution rule Cost/Cost, now I have recieved one item in Inventory with amount 1000$.
But as this cost is still present in Inventory I dont want to issue any invoice to my customer(let say after 6 months I will issue this item to my customer and during that moment only invoice should issue)
As per Cost rule, 1000$ ll be showing in Projects as actual cost and invoice will be automatically generated.
I want to avoid this.(Dont want to change rule)
Can any one help me out here?
Thanks in advance,
Sarvottam.

Hi
By choosing the distribution rule COST/COST you are going to get revenue and invoices based on the formula -
Revenue event = Actual accumulated cost / Approved Cost Budget * Approved Revenue Budget - Actual accumulated Revenue
Invoice Event = Actual accumulated cost / Approved Cost Budget * Approved Revenue Budget - Actual accumulated Invoices.
Usually companies run the GDR and GDI processes each period.
You described a scenario where you want to invoice the customer when you deliver the item to the customer. If you need to invoice then based on the above described formula, then you just need to schedule the process GDI to the right moment (after delivery). Be careful and prevent invoice generation, or at least prevent invoice release, before the right time.
However, if you need to invoice for a fixed price value which is not based on that formula, you might need to use as invoice method EVENT and not COST.
Dina

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