Negative amount on sales document

[Former Member]

Hi ,

Based on the document type of sales document required to be created ,debit credit memo/sales order/credit memo are the different types of business objects.

The FM used to create sales document is SD_SALESDOCUMENT_CREATE.

Requirement : I need to create a sales order with negative amount.

1. when I use the above FM for BUS2096 - I am able to create a negative amounted SD in R3. Perfect

2. when I use the same FM to create BUS2094 / BUS2032 type of SD with a negative amount, the value stored in SD is

changed to a positive value.

Is this a config issue , or do i need to search for any user exits where I could force a negative value for the SD.

Thanks in advance.

Edited by: Thomas Zloch on Mar 11, 2010 4:28 PM - replaced "-ve" by "negative"

[Former Member]

Hi Neelima,

I'm trying to make a sales order with negative amount, how did you do that?

Thank you,

Fábio Galvã

[Former Member]

You didn't say whether Dollar or Quantity. I'll assume quantity. A Credit Memo with a negative amount would then be a Debit Memo, wouldn't it? (-1 X -1). SAP handles the quantities as positive numbers. You'll see that throughout the system. There are fields that denote positive/negative for document amounts, but the amount is positive. Likewise, SAP programming handles a credit memo as a "subtraction" of a positive number.... I don't think I ever saw a sales document with negative quantities....you can't return -3 items....but you can return 3 items for a credit memo.

[Former Member]

Thanks for all your help. I had got a request to look into bapi for sales document create if -amount could be passed as possible through va01 .

I have managed to resolve this through configuration.

[Former Member]

Hello Neelima,

could I ask you how did you solve this?

Thank you

[Former Member]

Hi Fabio ,

I resolved this issue myself. whether a field can have a -ve / +ve value for a condition type is set in SPRO . If the configuration is set as +ve and we try to force a -ve value on R/3 screen or through BAPI call ,the value will be converted to a +ve.

After the functional team rectified the spro setting for the specific condition type( as per business requirement) , BAPI for sales document create saved the values as -ve .

Hope this helps.

Neelima

[Former Member]

It helped and a lot.

Thank you Neelima. Problem solved.

[Former Member]

I had the same problem, and I would like to answer the solution in case somebody else has same issue.

The problem is related with configuration. If you set up the credit note as a credit note and the item category is not marked as return; the pricing function multiply to -1 changing the amount to negative.

Field: VBAP-SHKZG

Set up the item category as return if the position is related with a credit note (also if it is without stock movement).

Regards,

Jorge Rosa.