PO Acknowledgement and Mile Stone

HI friends,
1) PO Acknowledgment and its acceptance, this process how can map in SAP . Please explain stepbystep
2) Whats the Process of Milestone in SAP . Please explain step by step of configuration and user process o

Hi,
PO acknowledgement is mapped in SAP with the help of CONFIRMATIONS.
SPRO-> Materials Management -> Purchasing -> Confirmations
In this node you will find
External confirmation categories u2013
AB - Order acknowledgment u2013 can be used for confirmation from vendor for PO receipt
GW - Rough GR u2013 confirmation that vendor material is received. This is not Goods Receipt.
LA - Inbound delivery u2013 confirmation that material is in transit from vendor to your company
These are Standard, not to be changed.
Internal Confirmation categories u2013 you can create as many categories you want by referring External Categories.
Then you create Confirmation Control Key by using Internal Confirmation categories and give them sequence. This key will be used at line item level, Confirmation tab.
You can further explore the other functionalities of CONFIRMATION.
As far as the milestone is concerned, please explain your requirement.
I know that payment (vendor / customer) is done based on milestone. In this case, you need to create Payment Terms which supports the milestones.
Anand

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Hi all . how to configure periodic billing and mile stone billing ..

hi gurus
could someone please tell me the process of defining periodic billing and milestone billing for a customer or group of customers and how do we show the deficit in the accounts .. how to do the config for the periodic and milestone billing ..
thankyou very much in advance
bj

Hi,
Billing Plan for Milestone Billing
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
Regards,
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Mile stone billing with Down payment clearing

Hi,
Urgent help needed.
I need to set up mile stone billing plan at item level with down payment getting automatically offset with Invoice
ie,
I have 10% down payment (FAZ).
And mile stone invoicing of 40% and 60% each.
I have raised down payment request and the incoming payment is posted.
Now, when I raise the invoices, I want the down payment received auotomatically deducted from the invoice amount and shown as separate line item in the invoice. What settings need to be done?
ie, if 10000 EUR is the total amount, down payment is 1000 EUR.
My first invoice should show 4000 - 400 = 3600 EUR due from the cutomer and second invoice shud have 6000-600=5400 EUR due.
The item category is ZTAO
I have maintained the following settings:
1. Condition type AZWR in the pricing procedure with requirement as 2 (item with pricing) and the calculation formula 48
2. Copy control set up for Order type TA with billing type FAZ for the item category ZTAO with Copying requirement 20
3. Copy control set up for Order type TA with billing type F2 for the item category ZTAO with Copying requirement 23
But the invoice is not showing the down payment amount. Can any one tell me what is that I am missing? This is in ECC6.0
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Resmi.

Yes, Shripad thats the problem I faced too.. unfortunately didnt get any solution so far.. and I had been focussing on some other area off late..
Any one who come across a solution, pls mail us!!
Thanks,
Resmi.

PR00 Not editable in Credit Memo Request, when copying from Mile stones

Dear,
PROO condition type is not editable in Credit memo request(VA01-CR) when iam creating with ref to Mile stone related invoice.
Requirement:
Mile stones maintained in Sale order at line item level -
>Invoice created with ref to sale order Miles stones-----> Now I would like to create Credit memo with ref to Invoice, the data is copying but the PROO condition type is not changeble.. I would like to change the amount in credit memeo.
can i know the reason why it is not changable???
Thanks in advance.

Its a standard functionality.
Take a help of an ABAPer for following userexit.:
USEREXIT_PRICING_PREPARE_TKOMP in the include MV45AFZZ.
The following code will make the condition type PR00 modifiable for user XXXX and non-modifiable for all other users.
>FORM USEREXIT_PRICING_PREPARE_TKOMP. DATA : i_T685A TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF T685A WITH HEADER LINE. IF SY-UNAME = 'XXXX'. LOOP AT XKOMV. IF XKOMV-KSCHL = 'PR00'. SELECT * FROM T685A INTO TABLE I_T685A WHERE KSCHL = 'PR00'. READ TABLE I_T685A WITH KEY KSCHL = XKOMV-KSCHL. I_T685A-KMANU = 'C'. MODIFY I_T685A INDEX SY-TABIX. MODIFY T685A FROM TABLE I_T685A. REFRESH I_T685A. ENDIF. ENDLOOP. ELSE. LOOP AT XKOMV. IF XKOMV-KSCHL = 'PR00'. SELECT * FROM T685A INTO TABLE I_T685A WHERE KSCHL = 'PR00'. READ TABLE I_T685A WITH KEY KSCHL = XKOMV-KSCHL. I_T685A-KMANU = 'D'. MODIFY I_T685A INDEX SY-TABIX. MODIFY T685A FROM TABLE I_T685A. REFRESH I_T685A. ENDIF. ENDLOOP. ENDIF. ENDFORM.
Thanks & Regards
JP

Mile stone billing: Excise invoice

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We are doing milestone billing.
In sales order,There is one line item with complete project name & in pricing all excise duty n sales taxes a
are applicable.
I can do the Delivery for this line Item.
and I can generate bills for mile stone mentioned in sales order. which contain only prices for that mile
stone no Excise duty n Taxes are applicable because that already mentioned in Sales order's item line.
My question What about excise duties for the delivery I am doing?
because as per Stnd system will noy do billing for that delivery if we do that also then double amount bills w
will get generate.
In this case of milestone How to take care of Excise dutie & How to create Excise invoice in J1IIN.
Pls give your expert experience .
Regards,
Akshay

Dear Friend,
When you are doing a Milestone billing, I hope you will be creating multiple deliveries and multiple billings, And i think each billing will have a different excise duties charged. so you are suppose to create multiple excise invoice according to your invoices.
Regards,
Sudhir

How to conf mile stone billing for contract sales

Dear Gurus,
I want to config sales of Residential flats through contract with mile stone billing.could u pls send the conf steps reg this senario.
Steps
1.Contract agreement
2.sales order
3.Mile stone billing.
These r the 3 steps in this process.I hope better solns from u.
Regards
Rams

Dear rams,
Milestone billing : Normaly used in projects , means, payment released as work progreses .
Goto *VOV8* and select your order type and click on details , Goto Billing , keep billing plan type as 01 , (if billing plan not available , create u2013 Goto VOB0 and create an new billing plant for milestone billing ).
Then create sales order u2013 Goto header -- Billing --- billing plan --- plan your billing date and Define date description , % of billing and billing type .
Now, system will allow you to make the billing as per your plan
saravanan

BOM with mile stone billing (order related)

Hi Gurus,
Can any body tell me soln for the following scenario.
Order type                OR
Material                    BOM Material(header)
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Billing type                  01(mile stone)
Requirenent                Order related billing as per mile stone.
Regards
Rams

Yes, Shripad thats the problem I faced too.. unfortunately didnt get any solution so far.. and I had been focussing on some other area off late..
Any one who come across a solution, pls mail us!!
Thanks,
Resmi.

Mile stone billing & down payment

i want to configure mile stone billing and down payment i was configured in the sales order milestone billing is working and the downpayment amount is also comming after raising downpayment invoice it was showing errror document is blocked i was checked there is no block how to do this problem please specify. and also specify the whole process of milestone billing & downpayment process.
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Kishore.

Dear Kishore
Milestones needs confirmation of an activities to invoice that milestone. Else the block will be there. You can manually release the block
Path -- VA02 (double click on item) Billing plan tab, block you can see 02 will be there. Remove it & save the sales order. Then bill it
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i have a probleme in creating mile stone billing plan. in MS Bill plant if my billplan exceeds my order quantity system is accepting without showing any error message or bloking the billing. i.e if my plan exceeds more than 100 % system should block the bill without creating but in my case system is allowing.
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Mile stone billing for service contract

Hi gurus,
can you help me for the following:
i want to configure mile stone billing for service contract in my client business process,
can any one send me the complete configuration process steps for mile stone billing.
I'll reward you full marks,
Thanks in advance
nitchel

Hiya...
Billing Plan for Milestone Billing
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
Keep Sapping
Regards

MILESTONE BILLING- Mile stone assigned to multiple sales orders

Hi,
My user has sales order in which he has used Mile stone billing
The Billing is being done in two shots - 60% once and the second time 40%
60% has already been invoiced and the 40% is creating a problem and they want the sales order to be closed
In one of the custom reports- it says that the 40% (mile stone number) is assigned to multiple sales orders and so the sales order cannot be confirmed
I am totally new to SD and so request to kindly explain high level concept and also provide the solution
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SS

Hi,
Is your line item in sales order assigned to wbs elements?
If it yes?
check milestones may also comes from it- check with PS consultant-
you can also check milestome number and billing plan number- if you display milestone
Use CN41 transaction to check sales orders assigned to WBS element
uou can refer Table: FPLT
ICN53n-report
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Buddi Chidambaram

Mile stone Confirmation

Dear All
I am facing a typical problem as given below
In production order there are 2 PP operations and 1 QM operation Like below
10 operation            PP Operation with Mile stone control Key
20 operation            QM Operation with Mile stone control Key
30 operation            PP Operation with Mile stone control Key
My Problem is that when users are confirming 30th operation 20 is also automatically confirmed (Which should not be as it itself is milestone)
How to rectify that problem. My requirment is that 20th operation should not confirm while confirming 30th operation and i cannot remove milestone from 30the operation also.
If 20th operation is not at all confirmed then 30 cannot be confirmed but if 20 is PCNF then 30 can be confirmed and with that rest of the quantity of 20 is also confirmed
Pl.Help
Edited by: vishnu agarwal on Mar 2, 2009 11:26 AM

Dear Vishnu,
This is obvious std behaviour by system because when you confirm any milestone operation system will confirm all preceding milestones automatically.
for more details you go through the following link :
[Milestone Confirmation |http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/b1/c04d69439a11d189410000e829fbbd/frameset.htm]
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My current requirement is to post an Idoc from my BPM, and get back the Idoc Acknowledgement. On the basis of the status field in the ALEAUDIT Idoc I need to determine the further course in my BPM.
Option 1:
1. In the Send Step of my BPM , I can request for Application Acknowledgement. I have done this and am able to receive the Acknowledgement and see the same against the Acknowledgement Msg ID in MONI. I am able to see the ALEAUDIT idoc triggered for my Send Step back to my BPM .
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@ Henrique : Work's been crazy past few months. The blog is on my to do list, hopefully someday soon it should be out. My Apologies guys!
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