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[Former Member]

hi all,

What is an Open Item in SAP? How will you find an Open Item in SAP?

Thanks,

Gaurav

[Former Member]

Hi Gaurav,

Open item management;

Open item management i sused to maintain the gl account on an Opem item basis.

Postings to these accounts represent incomplete transactions.

open line items you have to clear , then only that account will shoew that all line items are cleared.

ex; any payable :

GR/IR ACCOUNT

General Expence payable.

at teh time posting expences.

General expencesa/c dr

TO general expences payable.

Further to add what stated as open item management:

Typical examples are bankc reco, accounts receivables, payables etc.

You dont want to see all the Dr and Cr in the above accounts and you would like to see only the OS items of dr and cr pednig clearing. This what it does. In this account you can see the foolwoing:

1 In the case of AP:

Pedning invoices for which payment has to be effected.

2 In the case of AR:

Pending customer invoices for which payment has to be received.

3 In the case of BRE

Checks which hasnot been encahsed.

Checks deposited but not redited by the bank.

Un explained Dr or Cr.

Open item management helps in Clearing debit & credit items.

After Clearing GL codes, only Open Items will be dispalyed as unclear.

You should mark Open Item Management in GRIR Clearing Accounts and Bank Clearing Accounts and other required Gl codes.

kindly reward if found helpful.

cheers,

Hema.

[Former Member]

Gaurav,

Open Item is a Generic term in SAP but generally meaning that the document still has some life to it.

For eg....

With Reference to Invoice, Open items are unpaid invoices.

With Reference to Purchase Order, It still has some value remaining to be Goods received or Invoiced. You can use, For Open Purchase order - ME2L (By Vendor number) / ME2N (By PO number) /ME2M (By material number) .

Similarly for Sales order, run the VA05 Transaction to show the open sales order qty. Table VBBE will have Open sales order line items.

Table BSIK, will hold the Open Items for a Vendor.

Table BSID will have the Open items for a Customer.

The List goes on like this.

Hope this helps

Vinodh Balakrishnan

[Former Member]

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