How to get Material column in FBL5N

Question

Hi Experts,
Our client has a requirement where they want to have material as a column in FBL5N report. Using the layout we are able to add material column. However, it is blank for all line items. We understand that in FBL5N, we get FI documents and billing document may have more than one line item with more than one material.
There is a SAP note in this regard, note number is 215798. This note ensures special fields in table T021S are consistent with the structure RFPOSXEXT. This setting is already available as per our technical team.
Request you to help us find what is missing.
Regards,
Vijay

Answer 1

Dear,
Please check below information found on SDN. Hope this will helpful for your requirements.
In general if you want to inlude a special field to the line item display, you have tp proceed as described in the note 215798. These
fields have to be defined in transaction OBVU. Then the special field should exist in structure RFPOSXEXT. The program RFPOSXEXTEND eliminates  inconsistency in RFPOSXEXT and program BALVBUFDEL eliminates buffer inconsistency.
However these fields are different from the normal special fields:
For the FBL*N you have defined the 'Material Number (BSEG-MATNR),  Quantity (BSEG-MENGE) and Purchase (BSEG-EBELN)' as a special field.
Such a special field is not read from the index tables (BSIK/BSAK) like  the other ones, it directly gets read from the BSEG or BKPF table. If you check all items for the Company Code xxxx now in the FB*1N  nowhere is the 'Material Number, Quantity and Purchase' displayed.
But this is absolutely correct, as also in the BSEG table there is  no material number, quantity and purchase updated for the 'Vendor'  line items of all documents.
Reason:
Since Release 3.0, several purchase orders can be offset in one invoice.  As a result, different purchasing document numbers (BSEG-EBELN) can be  contained in the different G/L account line items.  As a result, it is no longer possible to enter a unique purchasing  document number in the customer/vendor line item. Field BSEG-EBELN  is not filled in the vendor line item and therefore cannot be  displayed in the line item display for customers/vendors. Please also  check note 152335.
So if you check you will see that in the vendor line item none of these  fields are filled so they are not in the table BSEG. That is the reason  why the value is not displayed because is not filled in the table which  gets read. So the values of these fields cannot be shown in FBL1N.
In the FI normally the Quantity is not a 'real' important field, as it is more related to the MM area. But in the old 'Profit Center Accounting' and the old' Special Ledger'  the field has been important.  As the same logic of these areas to 'store' the Quantity is also used  in the NewG/L the field get only filled in the line, where it make  'sense' because only in the 'goods receipt'
lines a 'real' Quantity is posted to the system.
So as before in the PCA and SL, now also in the NewG/L the Quantity is  filled in the correct and important lines and postings.
Transaction FAGLL03 shows the quantity like posted in table FAGLFLEXA. Please have a look at the note 1063198 which explains why the  quantity is different in BSEG and FAGLFLEXA.
In FI as standard we would not expect to see VBEL2 populated in FBL*N as this field is not included in BSIS. The reason why SAP designs  this way is that sometimes many sales orders are paid by one billing  document.
The field billing document 'VBELN' is contained in table BSEG AND in  table BSID but NOT in table BSIS.
Same occurs with BSEG-MATNR (material) and BSEG-MENGE (quantity).
In order to display these fields, you will need to create them as  special fields:
1)Please create fields BSEG-VBEL2, BSEG-MATNR and BSEG-MENGE as special  fields in transaction OBVU (FBL3N >MENU >SETTINGS >SPECIAL FIELDS);
2)SE38->program "BALVBUFDEL"->select indicator "Reset only EUINFO/LTEX"  ->run
3)Create a variant in FBLN to include this field (FBLN > SETTINGS >  DISPLAY VARIANT > CURRENT... Add the required fields (1-U-VBEL2...)
If they do not come up as a Special Fields in the Hidden Fields list, run RFPOSXEXTEND and wait for a few hours. 1-U-VBEL2... should then be  available in the list.
Also check Notes 215798 and 373268.
Please consider that you can display sales,material document and  quantity in transaction FBL*N, but only if the field is filled in.
Kindly check in tables BSEG and BSIS if they are updated.  Should the same are empty in the data base tables it would be totally
correct if the fields are shown blank in FBL*N.
Regards,
Syed Hussain.