Updating customer master data after invocing

Hello Gurus,
                   Is there any procedure that after the customer is INVOICED or after the completion of billing the customer master data field needs to be updated.
Thanks in advance
sameer

hai gurus,
For the above question, is it possible to create a extra feild in customer sales tab.
sothat whenever the invoice is saved for bill to party,(the extra feild is for either sold tp party or bill tp party) that feild to going to update automatically.
Is it possible to get trasaction data to be displayed in customer master data, like the one in material master data, where stock valuation is going to update in accounting 1 veiw.
thanx in advance
sukumar

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