IDOC_INPUT_SBINV error...

[Former Member]

Guyz,

i'm trying to simulate SBINV (incoming invoice for self billing from customer to vendor) and have been trying to input values to this idoc via WE19 but getting following error :

The billing document for external document EXT_INV_NO has not been created

EXT_INV_NO is customer invoice number basing on which vendor's system should be able to create an invoice which isn't working..

any pointers pls?

thanks

[Former Member]

Guyz,

i'm trying to simulate SBINV (incoming invoice for self billing from customer to vendor) and have been trying to input values to this idoc via WE19 but getting following error :

The billing document for external document EXT_INV_NO has not been created

EXT_INV_NO is customer invoice number basing on which vendor's system should be able to create an invoice which isn't working..

any pointers pls?

thanks

[Former Member]

guyz,

i found many sap notes regarding to self -billing which i implemented.... good news is invoice is being created in sap however idoc shows still error with error message "External document number<ext doc no> does not match reference document number<generated invoice number> "

system is assigning newly generated invoice number to XBLNR (reference doc) which obviously doesnt match coz customer's invoice number cannot be equal to vendor's invoice number...

it sounds like a mere bug to me, but could not find any oss on it... anyone found similar situation please ?

LOOKS LIKE NO ONE IN SDN COMMUNITY HEARD ABOUT SELF BILLING...NOT EVEN A SINGLE REPLY ON MY SELF BILLING ISSUES...

come on guyz...some would know, atleast SAP Mentors/moderators....

thanks in advance