Milestone Billing based on Percentage & Quantity

Hi,
Can you please guide how to map the following scenario
I have Business Scenario in Milestone Billing.
The Milestone terms are assigned in CJ20N and the same is copies to
sales order. The Milestone terms defined in the Project are
50% Advance Payment
40% Agaisnt Supply (Treating this also as advance)
10% At the time of Installation.(Treat this also as advance)
50% Revenue Realisation
50% Revenue Realisation
Order quantity is 100RMT
Order Value 10000
The definition of the each milestone is as follows -
Advance Payment: This Milestone raised at the time of booking of sales
order for Advance Payment. Unless advance is receivd orders are not
execute in the business. It means 50% of 10000 = 5000
40% Agaisnt Supply : This Milestone is raised based on supply of
material to the customer. It means as of Milestone Billing Date if
material dispatched is 20MT then the Milestone Billing Booked in the
system is 10000*40% *20/100= 800 (treat this also as advance payment
and client called it as Running Bill) and the same way book the billing
in the system upto completion of 100RMT.
At the time of Installation: This Milestone is raised when the
Installation process is starts. It mean example, if finish the
Installation of 10RMT, then the Milestone Billing is raised as per
below formula - 1000010%10/100 =100 (Treat this also as Advance
Payment and call it as Running Bill).
Actual revenue is booked in the system, once receive the completion
certificate from the client.
As of now in the system, only accept the value base or percentage base
milestones in the system. This type of above scenario how to map in
the system, can please propose a solution.
Kindly help me
Regards
Goutham

hi Goutham,
you need to configure your item categories for revenue recognition based on milestones. Thus, what happens then is you are separating revenues and billing. You can continue billing your customer for whatever milestones you have 50/40/10%, and the revenue can be recognized on the completion of the final milestone.
For customizing revenue recognition type on item category level go to
Sales and Distribution -> Basic Functions -> Account assignment / Costing ->
Revenue Recognition, Or via transaction: OVEP.
Set Revenue recoginition as Category A timebased revenue recognition
and Accrual period start as B -proposal based on billing plan start date
in a milestone billing plan, the billing date of the first milestone is then taken as accrual start date.
You can work on the latest version of the Revenue Recognition Best Practices Guide. The link can be found in note 779365.
Thanks

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Dear Experts,
With reference to following link
SD Cycle in PS
i would like to add one more doubt.
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Like After Completion of 30% of work,Billing must be copied from it.
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>
astosh wrote:
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Hi all,
I have a scenario of project sales. The billing will be order based - 50% after order confirmation, 40% after delivery & 10% after installation & testing.
I am using milestone billing plan for my project sales. I am not using the project system. I have created the billing plan in the following way:
1. Define billing plan types. I have copied from standard billing plan 01 & saved as Z type.
2. Define date descriptions. I have created 3 different date descriptions - a) Order confirmed, b) Delivery done, c) Installation & testing done.
3. Define & assign date categories. I created 3 different entries. First for the down payment at the time of order confirmation........i used the date description as down payment. The billing rule selected was "Down payment in milestone billing on percentage basis". The fixed date selected was "Fixed date, date not copied from milestone". The billing block selected was "calculation missing". The billing type selected was "FAZ".
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For second step i sselected the date description as "delivery done".......billing % as 40%........selected the block........billing relevance as "Milestone billing on a percentage basis".......payment term........billing type as FV.
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FAZ
FV
FV.
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With best regards,
Niyaz.

Hi,
You have done a good job.
Enter different dates in sales order for each Milestone and assign billing block save the sales order.
Goto change sales order, remove the block for one billing date.
In billing screen, enter sales order no. don't press enter
Click on Selection date (Shift+F7) enter the date range and press enter. you will get only first billing that is 50%.
Actually we are using PS, milestones and billing dates will be copied from there.
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i am doing milestone billing, where the scenario is , i hav to bill the amount in 3 stages.
30-30-40.
Here i am using the billing type F1
earlier when i was creating a invoice for the first time by default the system was taking total vaule of the invoice where it should take only 30% of the amount and 30% of the quantity
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As told i change the the copy control setting for pricing type for sales-billing , so now the system is picking up 15000 as the value for the first billing .
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Hi Rishi
Your requirement can be fulfilled through Down payment configuration
Check the down payment configuration , it will help you and it will solve your problem
item category group - 0005
item category - TAO
for this TAO item category a billing plan 01 (milestone billing plan -01) will be assigned and its billing relevance should be I which is order related billing .
billing doc type - FAZ
cancellation billing doc type - FAS
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Hi everyone
I m in a complex situation where my client want billing milestone of two material quantity
total value of material is 100
milestone
10%
70%
20%
Now first bill when i create for 10% for one qty system picks the value of two quantity which i mention in order billing plan instead of one.
Now i want system should take milestone value based on quantity now complete milstone value copy from order.
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Hi,
During the milestone process, system will not consider the quantity and it consider either the percentage basis or fixed value basis by refering the net value of the document. This is standard SAP behaviour.
As your requirement to bill the customer both on percentage and quantity basis then
Try this
At the time of creation of billing doc through VF01, selection the selection list and try to change the quantity from 2 to 1 then check, if this is not working then
you need fulfill this through ABAP development.
1. Develop a screen and in this the coloumn as -
Sales Order Number (Non editable)
Line item(Non editable)
Quantity(Non editable)
Net Value of item (Non editable)
Mileston Percentage(Non editable)
Billing Value (Net Value * Percentage)
Quantity to Bill (Editable - user enters the quantity to bill)
Net Billing Value (Billing value * Quanity)
In down keep button as SAVE, the movement user click save then you need to run BDC for VF01 background to create billing for quanity to bill.
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Milestone Billing for third party order process

hai Gurus
             Pls help me in understanding of milestone billing with example.
             Is it possible to link the milestone billing for Thirdparty order process?
             pls send me documents to my Id [email protected]
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Message was edited by:
        Saravanan Sevuga perumal

Hello Saravanan,
Milestone billing means distributing the total amount to be billed over multiple billing
dates in the billing plan.
As each milestone is successfully reached, the customer is billed either a percentage of
the entire project cost or simply a pre-defined amount.
During sales order processing, the system determines from the item category whether a
billing plan is required and, if so, which type of plan
The type of billing plan that is determined at this point is set up in Customizing and
cannot be changed in the sales document.
Billing plans for periodic billing and milestone billing plans for project-related milestone
billing have different overview screens so that you can enter data relevant to your
processing.
For example, for milestone billing, you must be able to enter data to identify the
individual milestones.
IMG configuration requires :-
1. Maintain billing plan types for milestone billing in OVBO.
2. Define date description in SM30 - V_TVTB.
3. Maintain Date Category for Billing Plan Type IN OVBJ.
4. Allocate date category in SM30 - V_TFPLA_TY.
5. Maintain date proposal for Billing Plan Type in OVBM.
6. Assign Billing Plan Type to Sales Documents Type in OVBP.
7. Assign Billing Plan Type to Item Categories in OVBR.
8. Define rules for determining the date in OVBS.
Milestone billing is typically used for billing projects, such as plant engineering and
construction projects. Such projects often include a series of milestones that mark the
completion of different stages of the work. In the SAP R/3 System, milestones are defined
in a network along with planned and actual dates for the completion of work. The milestones
are also assigned to the billing dates in the billing plan.
Each milestone-related billing date is blocked for processing until the Project System
confirms that the milestone is completed.
Delivery-relevant order items for which a milestone billing plan applies are billed on the
basis of the requested delivery quantity and not on the total of the confirmed quantities.
The connection between the project and the sales document item is made in the individual
schedule lines of the item. Each schedule item can be assigned to a network in a project.
To display the project-related data for a schedule line, proceed as follows:
In one of the overview screens of the sales document, select
1. Item -> Schedule lines.
2. Mark the schedule line and select Procurement details.
The following figure shows an example of milestone billing where only the Contract have
been billed :
Order Item Turbine    100,000
Billing Plan
Billing date Description    % Value Billing Block   Milestone   Billing Status
01-10-94     Contract      10 10,000      -             x           x
01-03-95     Assembly      30 30,000      x             x
01-04-95     Maintenance   30 30,000      x             x
01-05-95     Acceptance    30 30,000      x             x
01-06-95     Final invoice ..    ..        x
Network/Activities
Milestone    Estimate      Actual
Assembly     01-03-95      01-03-95
Maintenance 01-04-95
Acceptance   01-05-95
For each billing date in a milestone billing plan, you can specify whether the billing
date is:
1. fixed
2. always updated with the actual date of the milestone
3. updated with the actual date of the milestone, if the date is earlier than the
    planned billing date for the date
<b>**REWARD IF THIS HELPS**</b>
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AK

Milestone Billing for partial quantities

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My client is having Milestone billing schedule where in they bill their customers as per the billing schedule maintianed in the billing plan tab in sales order.
Billing plan is activated at Item level as the various items in a sales order can have different schedules.
But the issue is that they bill their customer on pro-rata basis which means the the billing document created for different milestones in the billing plan for each item can happen for partial quantities of the item under consideration.
Standard SAP Functionality doesnot allow this. In Copy Control, I tried out using the Invoice Split in Data Transfer Routine in Copy Control which doesnot give me the desired fucntionality.Copy Requirements Formula used is 023 (Item ord.ref. w/o AZ) as i need to create invoices for each milestones at item level which is working fine. But just that i cannot do milestone billing (for individial milestones at Item Level) for rpartial quantities. It can only happen for the entire order quantity.
In short the condition BIlling Quantity = Order Quantity - Invoiced Quantity is not working. Always Billing Quantity = Order quantity.
Delivery Related billing will not serve their purpose either...
Can any one throw some light on the above issue? Can I achieve the desired rersult using some custom routines?
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Hi Navaneetha,
Thanks for your reply.
I do completely agree with you and informed the same to the client.
I have activated Billing plan at item level and each item is been assigned with different WBS Element and everything is working Fine except the fact that partial billing is not possible for the quantities.
Let me explain the business implications of the same.
My client might have a billing schedule with 4 milestones for an Item A of 100 Quantities in a Sales order
Milestone 1 : Upon the confirmation of Order Acceptance , they bill the customer for 10 %
Milestone 2 : Upon the completion of designing part, they bill the customer for another 20 %
Milestone 3 : Upon the dispatch of materials to the customer. they bill the customer for another 60 %
Milestone 4 : Upon the submission of the documents and completion the legal aspects, the final invoice for the 10 % which completes 100 % Milestone billing
Now here in the third milestone when the items are dispatched, they also need to create the excise invoice. here what they do is that they bill the customer for 60% of the net item value as explained above, but the taxes would be calculated for 100% net item value( VAT/CST & Excise Duties).and based on this commercial invoice, the excise document is created. I managed to map that. No problems
But their concern is with third milestone. Milestone 1, 2 & 4 will happen for the full 100 quantities. But for third milestone, let us say that they dispatched 90 quantities of the item and for some reasons they could not dispatch 10 nos of items. They are entitled to bill their customers for the 90 nos of the Item and the rest 10 Nos they will bill it as a different invoice. Now SAP Doesn't allow this.
One solution is to ask them to prepare Proforma/Commercial Invoice against the delivery Document and Excise Invoice against the invoice so created. But then it further complicates the process and already billing against billing plan is so complicated that they are complaining that their life was so easy before the implementation of SAP
They want some solution for this problem of theirs as when they mean one quantity of Item A, they mean some thing around 10-50 Crore Rupees.
There is one note released by SAP but that is restricted to versions below 4. 7 and become obsolete for higher versions.
Can any body help me out with this? How about possibility of a custom Routine in Copy Control or Data Transfer?
The problem is that the moment i activate an item category with billing plan, it deactivate the copy control setting for partial order billing.
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Nithin Mohanan

Billing based on % of the project done

Hi all!
Let's see if you guys can help me out with some ideas here:
I need the billing as follows:
Every sales order comes from a project and generates a purchase order which account assignment category is "Project" (the same project that trigered the sales order).
This project can take 2, 3...months, but they want to bill every month.
So how can i have a billing process based on the percentage done of this project. For example: i create a bill for the 20 % of my sales order the first month, one for the 40 % the next month and so on.
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Hi Eduardo,
You can get this requirement through milestone billing process.
Please go through this SAP help link it will help you about milestone billing process in SAP R/3
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/dd/5606b5545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/frameset.htm
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Edited by: Virendra Pal on Dec 3, 2009 12:57 PM

Hello,
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Hello Experts,
My customer has the following scenario for revenue recognition.
My customer sell services. So I create a project and attach to the sales contract which has mile stones for billing.
After completion of milestones, billing is triggered automatically. No issues on this part.
When comes to revenue recogntion, they recognise the revenue after the work completion and nothing related to billing.
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2. If this is not a standard functionality, then how to tackle this issue. Is there any work around?
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Hi,
Milestone Billing: This type of billing is calculated based on the certain work is completed and this billing might be on percentage or fixed value basis.
Examples: Software Projects, Construction Projects- In this Billing raised to the customer based on work completion.
Periodic Billing: This billing is calculated periodically or monthly based on certain work or service.
Example: House Rent, Factory Lease or Godown Rent
For more information please go through the following link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/dd/56069b545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/frameset.htm
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Can anybody explain what is Periodic billing and Milestone billing?
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Hi,
Milestone billing means distributing the total amount to be billed over multiple billing
dates in the billing plan.
As each milestone is successfully reached, the customer is billed either a percentage of
the entire project cost or simply a pre-defined amount.
During sales order processing, the system determines from the item category whether a
billing plan is required and, if so, which type of plan
The type of billing plan that is determined at this point is set up in Customizing and
cannot be changed in the sales document.
Billing plans for periodic billing and milestone billing plans for project-related milestone
billing have different overview screens so that you can enter data relevant to your
processing.
For example, for milestone billing, you must be able to enter data to identify the
individual milestones.
IMG configuration requires :-
1. Maintain billing plan types for milestone billing in OVBO.
2. Define date description in SM30 - V_TVTB.
3. Maintain Date Category for Billing Plan Type IN OVBJ.
4. Allocate date category in SM30 - V_TFPLA_TY.
5. Maintain date proposal for Billing Plan Type in OVBM.
6. Assign Billing Plan Type to Sales Documents Type in OVBP.
7. Assign Billing Plan Type to Item Categories in OVBR.
8. Define rules for determining the date in OVBS.
Milestone billing is typically used for billing projects, such as plant engineering and
construction projects. Such projects often include a series of milestones that mark the
completion of different stages of the work. In the SAP R/3 System, milestones are defined
in a network along with planned and actual dates for the completion of work. The milestones
are also assigned to the billing dates in the billing plan.
Each milestone-related billing date is blocked for processing until the Project System
confirms that the milestone is completed.
Delivery-relevant order items for which a milestone billing plan applies are billed on the
basis of the requested delivery quantity and not on the total of the confirmed quantities.
The connection between the project and the sales document item is made in the individual
schedule lines of the item. Each schedule item can be assigned to a network in a project.
To display the project-related data for a schedule line, proceed as follows:
In one of the overview screens of the sales document, select
1. Item -> Schedule lines.
2. Mark the schedule line and select Procurement details.
The following figure shows an example of milestone billing where only the Contract have
been billed :
Order Item Turbine 100,000
Billing Plan
Billing date Description % Value Billing Block Milestone Billing Status
01-10-94 Contract 10 10,000 - x x
01-03-95 Assembly 30 30,000 x x
01-04-95 Maintenance 30 30,000 x x
01-05-95 Acceptance 30 30,000 x x
01-06-95 Final invoice .. .. x
Network/Activities
Milestone Estimate Actual
Assembly 01-03-95 01-03-95
Maintenance 01-04-95
Acceptance 01-05-95
For each billing date in a milestone billing plan, you can specify whether the billing
date is:
1. fixed
2. always updated with the actual date of the milestone
3. updated with the actual date of the milestone, if the date is earlier than the
planned billing date for the date
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