Credit Management for different Sales Order Types

Question

Hello All,
The problem is related to Credit Management for Sales Order which is explained below with an example -
We have separate Sales Order Types for New Launches (ZNLS) & Normal Depot Sales (ZDPS) but both the Order Types are assigned with same pricing procedure and respective orders will be raised against the same party code.Now automatic credit check is only active for order type ZDPS where the credit limit had been set to Rs.1000. Now Rs,.500 had already been raised using order type ZDPS, then another sales order of Rs. 500 is raised using order type ZNLS.But when a sale order of Rs. 550 is raised using order type ZDPS the sales order is getting blocked, because the system had taken into consideration & added up the Rs. 500 value of ZNLS with previous value of Rs. 500 against order type ZDPS as a result of automatic credit check though it is not active for order type ZNLS.Point to be noted that Credit exposure is  also not active for Order Type ZNLS.
How is this taken into consideration & what are the steps need to be configured so that the credit limit check will not get automatically activated for order type ZNLS  and  only remain active for order type ZDPS  despite they are assigned to same pricing procedure and used for invoicing same party code?
Please suggest.
Thanks & Regards
Priyanka Mitra

Answer 1

Hi Mitra,
The issue occurs because of the fact that credit check and the
update of the credit values are separate processes which are also
controlled separately by the respective customizing:
1. credit check is controlled by transactions OVAK and OVA8.
According to the attachment, you have already refered to note 18613 to
check the customizing settings.
2. update of the credit values is controlled by VOV7 or OVA7: "credit
acttive" flag. The 'Credit active' setting only affects the credit
update of the SD credit values (open orders, open delivery and open
billing documents). This flag has no control on the credit check. So
if for an order type, there is no credit check in OVAK and OVA8 but
the "credit active" flag is set for the item category, the order will
update the credit values even if no credit check is performed for the
order.
If the flag "credit active" is not set, the system will not update the
open credit values. On the other hand, the system ALWAYS updates the FI
credit value 'Open receivable' when the billing document is transferred
to Accounting. So, although you deactivated the "Credit active" flag in
in OVA7 or VOV7, such an item will increase the 'Open receivables' and
thus the credit limit used when the corresponding billing document is
posted to Accounting.
If you would like the value from sales order type  ZNLS is excluded from credit update, you could consider set the "Credit Active" field as blank in VOV7 for the item category used for ZNLS.
Best regards,
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