What is a manual billing category

[former_member306668]

Hi;

I am trying to add material B001 to a preliminary billing document and get the error message "No manual billing item category found for material item category group PSTE". Looking at the list of category groups for material I can't see a manual billing category. Can someone pls point me in the right direction in how to overcome this.

BTW in the app Change Preliminary Billing document I choose the option Add Manual Item.

Thanks

Thomas

[Feras_Al-Basha · Accepted solution]

Hi Thomas,

If i'm not mistaken B001 is a one-time credit material out-of-the-box. You should be able to add this B001 to the special prof. DMR5 using the Fiori app 'Edit Billing Request' (see attachment). There after you may proceed further processing in preliminary billing documents (see attachment).

Side note, you may maintain your G/L account determination configuration for the revenue & cost side for this material in manage your solution.

Hope this helps,

Thank you,

Feras

[Feras_Al-Basha · Accepted solution]

Hi borntosucceed ,

Thank you for clarifying the need. Yes it would be possible to add B001 at the preliminary billing document level.

We would need to be mindful of some settings and the information provided especially when adding a credit item. Please see attachment for a complete example.

The reason why initially I had recommended to add the credit item using the billing request app is because currently when editing preliminary documents a manually added item does not have a preceding document and is therefore not visible in the process flow and the associated project. Therefore, if a preliminary billing document containing one or more manually added items is rejected, the manual item data is lost. See reference documentation below:

https://help.sap.com/viewer/a376cd9ea00d476b96f18dea1247e6a5/1902.500/en-US/e11c1fd6ef74449e90fed942...

Hope this information helps,

Thank you,

Feras

[former_member306668 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Feras;

Yes I know this in the Edit Billing Request app. The question is however how can we add a new material directly in the Preliminary Billing app (or is this currently not possible)?

Regards

Thomas

[former_member306668 · Accepted solution]

Weird, I no longer get the error message, not sure if this was somehow related to the 1902 upgrade. Anyway all good now.

Thanks Feras