How to generat multiple invoices based on per employee/contractor/services?

Question

Hello Experts / Dina,
I am in situation where customer is in business of body shopping and charges to his final customer based on individual invoice / per employee /contracor & customer services. This was happening in legacy system but after the implementation of Oracle Project costing and Oracle Project billing, customer is not able to generate invoices per employee services. Rather consolidated invoices are getting generated.
How to achieve this functionality in oracle project billing?
Lets take example - On Project P1 for customer ABC, 3 below employees are working on different task for 3 months.
Now after one month employees have been billed as shown below.
Emp 1 - 1000 USD - for 100 Hrs
Emp 2 - 2000 USD - for 200 Hrs
Emp 3 - 1000 USD - for 50 hrs
Now @ end of the month when invoice is getting generated is 1 invoice including 3 lines of amount total 4000 USD. There is problem; customer wants that there should be 3 different invoices per employee shoud generated based on above mentiond 3 diff lines for customer ABC.
I guess with oracle projects billing - You can split the invoice based on Accrue through date ( which is not possible in this case ) and agreement ( which is also not possible in this case ) and different currency ( which is again not possible in this case) - I may be wrong when saying it is not possible. plz correct me if I am wrong.
even I guess billing extension wont work. So is there any way to achive this?
Right now only option i am thinking is let single invoice of 4000 USD with 3 different lines should pass to AR and while priniting the invoice customer can create 3 diff prints which includes individual lines. and while applying receipts on the single invoice in the system, customer can apply the receipts to indivual lines.
but I am not sure about AUDIT issues.. Can some one think about any AUDIT issues comes to this approch or issues with TAX rounding amount issues ?
Infact I would like to solve this issue with the help of Oracle Projects billing and not with custom invoice print program. I guess someone from you experts can figure it out to generate muiltple invoice based on employees / suppliers / contractors / materials etc.
A suggestion on Extension / customization / seeded functionality of Oracle Project billing on thi issue would be gr8 help.
Please help.
Thanks
Edited by: oracle_samba on Jan 7, 2013 1:06 AM
Edited by: oracle_samba on Jan 7, 2013 1:07 AM

Answer 1

Hi Dina,
First of all thanks for your update :-) Your solution looks much promising.
I thought of using billing extension but rejected on the ground that I would end up in generating events based on employee for their corsponding billig amounts so finally generating a consolidated invoice only in One GDI run. But what i was missing was pre-processing extension and running the extention in loop based on employee count.
I am fully sure business would not have any issues of auto approving and releasing invoice upon generation. But my question is "is it possible to just approve the invoice & not release it using auto approve and release extension?" The reason is I think when GDI runs it only deletes Unapproved invoice & spare Approve invoices. - So please suggest.
Also please validate my understanding about your solution with an existing example -
As with the current example, there are 3 EMP presents so need to run GDI 3 times and develop pre-processing ext in a such a way that at each time it will put on hold on all the billable items except EMP1, and EMP2 and EMP3 on each consecutive run respectivly. And ensure that Auto Approve and release extension should be used in order to avoid overriding previously generated invoice? Am I right ?
Many Many thanks for solution !!!
Regards,
:-)