SD self-billing - SAFT

[ana_margarida_machado]

Hello everyone,

We are working on the SD self-billing process for our project. This is a Portuguese company, and the end customer sends the self-billing document. Our company needs to create the billing document using the SD module to "replicate" the document created by the end customer and handle all subsequent processes.

We want to ensure compliance with Portuguese legal requirements. According to our customer, this SD self-billing document should not have a digital signature and should not be included in the SAFT file.

We have a specific SD document type and a specific number range for this type of document. However, according to SAP Note 2642802, “Since the publication of Despacho 8632/2014, all documents generated in SD (invoices, credit notes, debit notes, pro-formas, deliveries, etc.) must be digitally signed.” This means we cannot create an SD invoice without a digital signature.

We have tried to find information on how to exclude the digital signature in SAP documentation (https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/9b351d6e33a0496598e4b58782565e8a/9ce5465761a14af4908...) or in the SAFT for Portugal user guide PDF from SAP (https://help.sap.com/doc/a3fc11aded07460d99f1f938e1c29496/6.18.latest/en-US/User%20Guide%20for%20SAF...), but we could not find this scenario in the documentation. In these two links, we found information about self-billing in the MM (Materials Management) scenario, but not in the SD (Sales and Distribution) scenario like ours.

We have a few questions:

1. How can we create an SD billing document without a digital signature in this particular scenario?
2. How should we customize our billing type to indicate that this is a self-billing document?
3. How can we exclude this document from the SAFT file? According to Chapter 4.2 of the SAFT for Portugal user guide, we did not find this scenario covered.

Thank you for your help.

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Ana Machado