Customer Invoice BAPI posting problem

[Former Member]

Hi SAP Gurus,

We've created an interface that posts customer invoice via BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST (ala FB70).  However, I kept encountering the "Inconsistent FI/CO document header data for updating" error.

Prior to providing further details, here's what I've already done while trying to look for a solution:

- Passed all the information into the BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_CHECK FM.  No errors were encountered there.

- Directly ran my test data in the posting BAPI via SM37.  Got the same "inconsistent" error there.

- Tried posting the test data at FB70.  Worked without any problems.

- Ensured that the document type I've been passing is really for customer invoices.

- Checked that there is no need for me to provide a different posting key aside from the default.

- Alternatively tried providing and not providing the object type (BKPFF), key ('$'), and system.

- Alternatively tried providing and not providing the fiscal year and period at the header details.

- Made sure that all of the company codes in my line items are the same as that provided in the header table.

- Made sure that all values that need to be padded with 0s at the front (such as GL accounts and customer number) have them.

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In a nutshell, the data that I am trying to post is roughly as follows:

Posting Key	Comp Code	Account	Text	Currency	Tax Code	Amount	Profit Center
01	1000	100000	Customer entry (w/ tax)	USD	O1	1,000,000.00
50	1000	2101001	Customer entry (tax amt)	USD	O1	10,000.00-
50	1000	4104001	GL entry 1 (no tax)	USD	O1	500,000.00-	DUMMY
50	1000	4104020	GL entry 2 (no tax)	USD		490,000.00-	DUMMY

GL account 4104020 cannot accept tax codes.

I've filled up the BAPI tables as such:

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Document header (minus object type, key, and system):

Bus Act	Username	Text	Comp Code	Doc Date	Posting Date	Doc Type	Ref Doc
RFBU	sy-uname	BAPI Test	1000	20120919	20120919	DR	REFDOCII

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AR Table:

Item No	Customer No.	Comp Code	Tax Code
10	100000	1000	O1

I've also already tried providing the GL account and the payment terms allotted to the customer into this table, just in case the BAPI couldn't retrieve them.  Didn't work as well.

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Tax Table:

Item No	GL Account	Tax Code
20	2101001	O1

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GL Table:

Item No	GL Account	Comp Code	Posting Date	Tax Code	Profit Center
30	4104001	1000	20120919	O1	DUMMY
40	4104020	1000	20120919		DUMMY

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Amounts Table:

Item No	Currency	Base Amount
10	USD	1,000,000.00
20	USD	10,000.00-
30	USD	500,000.00-
40	USD	490,000.00-

I feel like I'm missing something so incredibly simple and that I'd feel silly once I find out, but for the moment, I would really appreciate any thoughts you may have as I continue to search for answers...

Thank you so much!

[Former Member]

Hi

What are you moving in the tax line? Which is the base amount?

Max

[Former Member]

Hi Max,

The 10,000- stored in the base amount is the amount that is passed in the tax line.

I forgot to mention, but I had also wondered if it had anything to do with the other amount fields not being filled up. I'm no longer connected to the system, but If I can recall correctly, I've tried something that roughly looks like this, using the FM that retrieves amounts based on net and gross (I simplified the values here for our convenience):

Item No	Currency	Doc Amt	Base Amt
10	USD	1,000,000.00	990,000.00
20	USD	10,000.00-	9900.00-
30	USD	500,000.00-	495,000.00-
40	USD	490,000.00-	485,100.00-

But for some reason, I remember this giving me an error pertaining to transaction amount balances.

[Former Member]

But which is the percentage of tax code?

Max

[Former Member]

Hi Max,

For the sample above, tax is around %1.01.

[Former Member]

Hi

U should move the base amount in the CURRENCYAMOUNT for tax line only.

I usually use the fm CALCULATE_TAX_FROM_NET_AMOUNT or CALCULATE_TAX_FROM_GROSS_AMOUNT

in order to get the right data for tax line:

if base amount is 9900.00, tax amount shouldn't be 10,000.00?

Max

[Former Member]

Hi Max,

The value should definitely be 10,000 (provided by the incoming file).

Still, we've played around with your suggestion that the tax line should contain the 10k value for the amount, and we finally got it.  Turns out that for the two GL accounts, I should have entered the gross amount in both document and base fields in the table instead of entering gross and net respectively.

Thanks for your help!

Jay

[Former Member]

Try using the BAPI in a report program and also at the end use FM 'BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT'. Sometimes BAPI's don't work correctly when ran through SE37.

best regards,

swanand

[Former Member]

Hi Swanand,

Unfortunately, that was the first we had done - the BAPI was originally in a report program, with the BAPI commit FM at the end. I also receive the same error at the return table there when I attempt to post (while the FM that conducts checks states that it encountered no errors).