Item Category--Revenue Recognition

Dear All,
system is not allowing me to assign revenue recognition field in VOV7 as it is grey field.
As well when I tried through IMG/S&D/Basic Function/Account assignement/Revenue Recognition Item Category-Change mode system is showing grey field for revenue recognition here also.
Please guide on how can I assign here.
Regards,
Sainath

Hi,
In order for this to work, the revenue recognition functionality has to be activated in the system (because of important financial implications and risks, it isn't activated by default).
You need to raise a message to SAP for this.
Please check OSS note 820417.
Best of luck,
Cosmin

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Revenue recognition has been executed twice

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G/L Balance is not correct as below.
It looks that some of revenue recognition has been executed twice. There are both items that revenue recognition has been executed twice and items that revenue recognition has been executed once within the same sales order. I have no idea whether there is any pattern exists or not. This issue needs to be solved by today .
what could be the reason, can any one help me on this.
Thanks in advance,
Raju

Hi Raju,
Can u explain us in detail,
It can be the reason like if the revenue recog is replicating through some nightly job, there r different cases it may ran twice(relication has done twice).
Best regards
Bhupathi.

Revenue recognition in Item category

Dear All
Can you advise what exactly is revenue recognition in item category?.
I need to enter A in the field, but the field is greyed.
Thanks
Deepu Pillai

Dear Deepu,
The Concept of "Revenue Recognition" in Item Category is -
The material, with specified Item Category, is defined for income-accrual or not.
Now, Income-accrual means, say, in a month, you have "n" no. of orders to deliver, but might possible that Invoice and Payment, may get done or may not be.
So, to realise such income for a particular period, we run revenue-recognition (VF44). In VKOA, we maintain "Provisional Account" for such income.
Once invoiced, Accrued income G/L gets debited and Customer G/L gets credited.
[Revenue Recognition|http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/4d/fcd139f6e4cf2ce10000000a114084/frameset.htm]
As you asked for maintaining - Type "A" in Item Cat., go through
[Time related Rev. reco.|http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/59/aff23cd85c11d199d60000e8a5bd28/frameset.htm]
Another Type is "B"
[Service related Rev. reco.|http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/59/aff23fd85c11d199d60000e8a5bd28/frameset.htm]
Best Regards,
Amit
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Revenue Recognition based on User Status of assigned Sales Order line item

Dear Community members,
We have requirement to recognize / de-recognize revenue posted to WBS for calculation of RA, based on the 'User status' of the assigned Sales Order line item.
To elaborate requirement further -
1) WBS Element - XXX - 10 ( with operative indicator - Plan/Bill/Account Assign)
2) Sales Order(SO) Line Items assigned to the above WBS -
- SO No - 123 Line Item 10 - Actual Rev - $ 300 - User Status - EXE (Meaning this work is in progress , partial payment received thus actual revenue for RA at WBS is 'Zero'
- SO No - 124 Line Item 20 - Actual Rev - $ 400 - User Status - COMPL(Meaning this work is Complete , all payment received thus actual revenue for RA at WBS is $400
- SO No - 125 Line Item 10 - Actual Rev - $ 800 - User Status - EXE (Meaning this work is in progress , partial payment received thus actual revenue for RA at WBS is 'Zero'
As per WBS reports Actual Revenue posted to WBS XXX-10 is $ 1500 ( $300$400$800) , however since two SO line items ( SO 123 /line item 10 and SO 125 / line Item 10 ) are NOT having User status 'COMPLETE', the actual revenue posted by those line items $ 1100/- ($300 + 800) should not be included as Actual Revenue for RA at WBS level.
Thus Actual Revenue for RA at WBS XXX-10 should be $ 400 /- ( the revenue posted by SO 124/line item 20 which has user status as 'COMPLETE')
How do above can be achieved?? Is there any standard solution for this?? Is any SAP Note available for this (I too am looking for one but not found any ) ?? do we need any enhancement , Customer exit etc
Thanks in advance
with regards

Hi,
Thanks. You are right that the 'Completed Contract Method' would defer revenue recognition. However, the status checked would be of the RA object (WBS Element in this case, as RA key is on WBS and RA is being calculated on the WBS).
However, our requirement is to check the user status of the Sales Order Line items assigned to the WBS element and filter the revenues posted based on the active user status of individual Sales Order Line item.
Please give you inputs.
Thanks in advance
With regards

How Revenue Recognition value calculate in VF45 for an item

Hello Experts,
I want to know how system calculates Revenue Recognition for any item in VF45. I know the configuration part of Revenue Recognition but want to know the calculation part, how calculation going to find out the vale of the Revenue recognition.
Item net price is 3139255.45 and system calculate Revenue recognition for this item is 3139020.94.
I want to know how calculation going for Revenue recognition.
Can any body help me out ? any link /document related to Revenue Recognition Calculation (not configuration) please share with me.
Thanks,

Hello Prasanth,
For example :- Maintaining an annual Price ZPRC - 1200 and Billing plan is Annual
So, while recognising SAP takes 1200 / 365(Number of days) = 3.287 per day
For jan - 31 days - 31*3.287 =101.91
For feb - 28 days - 28*3.287 = 92.05
Thank you for your time.

Revenue Recognition Category after Credit memo request generation via BAPI

Hi all,
I have used the BAPi " SD_SALESDOCUMENT_CREATE" to generate Credit Memo Request. After the generaion of the credit memo request the Revenue Recognition Catrgory [ "RR_RELTYP"(Data Element) ] is not determined. Can anyone let me know what are all to be filled to this BAPI for this field to get populated.

Hello Mr. Shiva Ram,
First of all thanks a lot for your help.The problem of credit memo is now solved but to resolve the status of the existing sales order documents as per your suggestion we have run the program SDVBUK00 in SA38.Still we didn't get the desired result as the status of the completed normal sales orders are still showing "Being Processed" even after running the program.
Please suggest what else need to be done to change the status of the completed sales documents till invoice.
Regards
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Return of Free goods item - Problem in item category

I am trying to create return order of Free sample billing
(ZFDP). The return order type for the free sample is ZFDR.
We have specified Item category for the ZFDR is RENN (Free good item) in IMG Activity -> Assign Item categories.
When I create order and save it, it prompts me to enter G/L Account.
This material is free. It should not prompt G/L Account for it. There is no revenue recognition specified for the item category. I tried changing item category to ZKLN i.e Free of charge item. This item category does not prompt for G/L Account while creating order. but I can not use this item category because it prompts me for Avialability. I can not remove the Avaialabilty check for it because the same item category is used in the Free sample order where availability check is required
In ZFDP order type, we are issuing 100% discount by using R100
discount condition. Please let me know how can I solve this problem.
I think there is some problem in my item category itself. .
My setting for Item category in IMG - Define item category is
same for both ZKLN and RENN. Only difference is RENN has returns
tick and pricing field is blank. In ZKLN pricing is defined as B- 100%
discount. I also tried changing the pricing option of RENN to B.
But still it is asking for G/L Account.
I can not use ZKLN instead of RENN because my ZKLN is used in the
Free item Sales order.
Please help.
Regards
Saurabh Gothivrekar

Hi
I got answer to my query. YOu need to specify the bill type while defining sales document type. This bill type should not have account assignment mentioned in it.
I changed the bill type, which does not have Account assignment procedure attached to it.
It has solved my problem

Aggregating Item category in sales order to Invoice

Hi
There are two itemcategories in our sales orders one is revenue recognition type and other one normal item category, when we are billing the sales order, iam getting 2 invoice documents for the same sales document. Our client has requested is it possible to combine the 2 item categories to get single invoice.
Is it possible to do that in SAP only with configurations?
Thanks,
Vaishnavi

Hi Vaishnavi ,
You can prevent multiple invoices for multiple item categories with the help of Copy control.
In copy Control there you will find one field called "Data VBRK/VBRP" there you assign a routine which determines the splitting criteria.
In that routine you can define the Criteria as when to split the invoice. Take the help of your ABAPer .
Hope this helps to you.
Regards,
Nikhil

Pricing procedure not to bill customer but revenue recognition

I'm looking for guidance on how to setup a pricing procedure conditions. First let me explain the situation. What happens is the customer buys say 2000 software licenses on a sales order. The customer is billed and the customer account is debited and a deferred account is credited. Now the customer activates one of the licenses. The pricing from the sales order is copied to a contract. This contract has a start and end date for the license. Now that license can start to be recognized based on the period of the line item contract dates.. The issue we have is that normally for deferred revenue billing takes places. Problem is customer was already billing on the sales order. Somehow the pricing procure has to credit the deferred account that was posted on the sales order and then credit the revenue recognition account that can be used by transaction VF44.
So on the invoice associated with the sales order Invoice from sales order
Dr Customer $1000
Cr 2370 $1000
The account 2370 is the deferred account. This part is fine.
Now we activate 1 of the licenses.
So the pricing procedure has to do the following with no billing to the custo0mer account Invoice from contract
Dr 2370 $120
Cr 2371 $120
This is the problem part. crediting the deferred account 2370 and then posting into the revenue recognition account 2371
Rev Rec – VF44 for Period1
Dr 2371 $10 Cr 4340 $10 Any ideas would be appreciated

Hi
In SD billing documents customer is always debited or credited based on nature of transaction. For posting in two different G/Ls instead of customer account there is only one possible way which I know. In free goods pricing system can post debit and credit entries to different G/Ls and these G/Ls are controlled through account keys which you assign to condition types in pricing procedure.
Do you have any Idea of free goods pricing and its posting? Explore this and give it a try. I am not sure about this because I didn't test this. You can test and see if it helps.
In this for contract item category you have to use free goods pricing which you set in item category settings in VOV7.
Thank$

Config of billing type G2 for Revenue Recognition

Hello Experts.
I have a situation where I need to configure billing of credits for revenue recognition.
For normal builling we have copied doc type SO to ZBCS and added ZTAD item category (copied from TAD) for the RR.
To do this for credits I copied doctype CR to ZBCR and assigned ZTAD item category to it.
When billing the ZBCR not I get the message "Item category ZBCR ZTAD cannot be invoiced with billing type G2".
How can G2 be configured to allow this?
This is G2's current setup.
Billing Type G 2 C red tM e m o Created by
Number systems
No.range int.assgt. 19 Item no.increment 0
General control
SD document categ. O C re dit m emo Posting Block
Transaction group 7 B il lin g doc um ent s Statistics
Billing category
Document type DG C us tom er cr ed it me mo
Negative posting N o neg at ive p ost in g
Branch/Head office C us tom er =Pa ye r/B ra nch =s old -t o p ar ty
Credit memo w/ValDat N o
Invoice list type
Rebate settlement Rel.for rebate
AcctDetermProc. KOF I0 0 A cco unt De e rm n ato n
Doc. pric. procedure
Acc. det. rec. acc.
Acc. det. cash. set.
Acc. det. pay. cards
Output/partners/texts
Output determ.proc. Z10 00 0 B il lin g Out pu t Application V 3
Item output proc.
Output Type
Header partners FK B iln g D ocu m en t
Item partners FP B il lin g Ite m
TextDetermProcedure 03 Invo c e hea de r
Text determ.proc.itm
Delivery text

Hi,
You may be maually given the PR00 in ZBCR. But in your copy control (VTFA) --> item category ZTAD --> pricing type, you may be maintained B (Carry out new pricing).
If you maintain B, you have to change it to "D ".
When you maintain B, the system will search the Pricing again in Credit memo. All manual prices will be lost.
Thanks
M. Lakshmi Narasimhan

Update the set of item category in IMG

Hi All,
When I am trying to update the set of item category, here is the path that I'm using in the IMG:
Sales and Distribution/Basic Functions/Account Assignment-Costing/Revenue Recognition/Set Revenue Recognition For Item Categories. When I go to the detail to update the item category, even in the change mode, the fields are not available for updates.
Please help me, is this any configuration issue?
Its not even a authorization issue because user has the sap_all and sap_new.
Thanks.

Check the links below:
http://help.sap.com/bp_bblibrary/500/Documentation/G69_BB_ConfigGuide_EN_US.doc
http://sapbasisnotes.blogspot.com/2007/11/consignment-sales-process-in-sap.html
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246916.pdf
Regards.

Not able to delete a delivery after revenue recognition is reversed

Hello Gurus,
We have a situation for certain Sales Order types after creation of Sales Order -> Delivery and PGI, we do revenue recognition. But there was some mistake and delivery needed to be deleted and recreated if needed. So after doing revenue recognition reversal we are reversing the PGI. After this when we try to delete the Delivery ( which would have got deleted if there was no revenue recognition process ) we get the below error.
Is it a problem with the way Revenue recognition is configured or does the standard behave like this. If the Invoice is also present in the above I am able to cancel the Invoice. If you think its a problem with the way Revenue reccognition is configured please advise.
Item 000010 cannot be deleted (revenue recognition status)
Message no. VL896
Diagnosis
The delivery or delivery item cannot be deleted.
System response
The document cannot be deleted since the delivery contains items that
reference sales document items that are relevant for revenue
recognition. When the goods issue was posted, the system created revenue
lines that had already been recognized. This means that there are
subsequent documents in revenue recognition for this delivery.
Procedure
If you no longer require the delivery or delivery item for deletion, set
the delivery quantities to zero and repost the goods issue. Make sure
that the quantity zero is allowed in Customizing for the delivery item
category. When the goods issue is posted, the overall processing status
is set to C and the delivery can be archived. Message determination
should be configured not to send any messages in this case. To make sure
that the system makes revenue corrections if there are differences
vbetween billed and recognized values, set a billing-relevant rejection
reason in the sales document item if more than one partial delivery is
allowed.
If you still want to use the delivery, adjust the delivery quantities
accordingly. Alternatively, deliver the referencing sales document item
again. Note that the sales document item cannot be delivered again if
only a partial delivery is allowed.
What are the changes I can do to Delete the Delivery?
If I cannot Delete the Delivery, Should I make the Delivery as 0 qty and create a new delivery with changed qty and do further process. Or should I reject the Sales Order and create a new sales order with exact qty and do further process.
Please advise.
Regards,
SNK.
Delivery has one line item. For the above case scenario, invoice is there for some deliveries and for some deliveries there is no invoice. Eg: SO -> DN -> PGI -> Rev Recog -> Iv or SO -> DN -> PGI -> Rev Recog. Requirement was SO was wrongly created as the qty was wrong or in some cases SO needs to be rejected. I am able to cancel Invoice. Rev recog is reversed. PGI is cancelled by VL09. Not able to delete Delivery and I get the above error. Ideally I thought since Rev recog is reversed, Delivery should have been deleted but not happening and above error comes.
SO - Sales Order DN - Delivery IV - Invoice
Edited by: sapconsultnt on Dec 16, 2009 5:06 AM

Hello,
Please review the Note 1224871 which introduced this functionality.
Regards,
Raghavendra YN

Revenue recognition

Hi Gurus,
I require help regarding revenue recognition. I have a scenario where customer pays part amount as advance payment, I have following doubts
1) If I configure revenue recognition at item category, what will be the effect in case of regular payment (non advance)
2) configuration steps for revenue recognition.
regards,
HB

I have a scenario where customer pays part amount as advance payment, I have following doubts
Just search the forum with the text "Down Payment" so that you will get lot of documentation on this topic. Take the inputs and try on your own.
configuration steps for revenue recognition
First and foremost part is you / Client have to get concurrence from SAP to configure.
G. Lakshmipathi

Service based revenue recognition (u0091Bu0092) contract with call off

I am trying to understand Revenue Recognition. I have come across the above term." Contract with call off"
Can anyone tell me what exactly this means.

Dear sap
The contract consists of items defining the individual materials, material groups, or services with prices and in many cases quantities.
An item is assigned to an item category, which defines the type of procurement (e.g. item category K for consignment, or L for subcontracting).
An item of the procurement type "external service" contains a set of service specifications. Such specifications may be hierarchically structured. The summary view of such a hierarchical structure is termed an "outline", and the individual levels of the hierarchy are referred to as "outline levels". Quantities are specified in service lines. Services can be released (<i>ordered, or called off against the contract</i>) at item level or at the level of the service line.
Thanks
G. Lakshmipathi

Item category cannot be changed

Hello experts,
Using the transaction OVEP when you select an item category and try to change it is not possible.
See note: 459285 Revenue recognition: Item category cannot be changed (but does not apply in previous version --> The problem is corrected as of Release 4.7.)
Version: 6.00
Please Help!!!
Thank You.

Hello,
It is necessary to perform the full assessment process before we can
release the functionality for you. (See OSS note 820417 - section 'new
customers').
Avter release of the functionality the RR category is redy for input.
The assessment is a free-of-charge service SAP offers to
ensure that mandantory conditions and customizing settings are met.
The first step of the assessment would be to fill the attached
questionaire.
The second step of the assessment would be to provide
representative test cases which are done (the test should include
all your processes and consider also the non-straight
forward processes like price changes, cancellations, ...)
This assessment is necessary in order to get future support
by SAP in terms of the revenue recognition functionality.
If you have the release from SAP side, then it should be possible to chage the item type for revenue recognition.
I hope that the information are helpful.
Regards
Claudia

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