Max no. of line items reached in FI

Question

Hi Everyone,
My client does billing through a batch job and the program used SDBILL which is assigned to TCode VF04 in Table TSTC.
There are invoices where the line items is fixed at 999.Could somone please tell me how to automatically split invoices whenever the line item exceeds the permissible no. of line items which 999.
Regatrds

Answer 1

Hello,
The lines in accounting documents will depend up on the different items for posting, like revenue, tax, provisions ....etc .
Check for your accounting document and findout how many line items appear in the accounting document for each line item in the invoice. Then you can set a invoice split routine in the copying control (Data VBRK/VBRP), else as Lakshmipathi suggested you can use the userexits to split the billing document if the line item crosses XXX.
SAP suggests using the split invoice method, or the note 36353. But this notes will summarise the accouting document line items with the field specified in OBYC (table TTYPV). This can have an adverse effect, if the FI dept use line item wise clearing OR the data transfers to external systems (BW/reporting systems).
Regards,
SAM