Incoming invoice before goods receipt

[Former Member]

Hi friends.

In the standard process of VMS the action for good receipt (GORE) is executed before the action for incoming invoice (INIV). Is there the possibility of doing the way inverse (INIV before GORE). I know that the vehicle belongs to the material type VEHI with valuation category X so it is a single batch. And the batch is created at goods receipt so I'm not quite sure if it is possible to register the incoming invoice previous to the goods receipts.

Thanks.

Pedro

[Former Member]

Hi Pedro,

in VMS, the batch is not created when the goods receipt (GORE) is executed. The batch is created at an earlier point of time: It happens during vehicle creation (CREA) already. If you don't create the vehicles via CREA but via CRE1, the batch is not yet created yet but in this case action REAL (which is in this case supposed to be executed prior to ORD1) creates the batch. All this statements are true for the valuation type creation as well.

The VMS actions and the VMS framework in my opinion don't enforce the action sequence GORE->INIV. From a VMS perspective, INIV->GORE is possible as well. Of course you need to set up the action matrices in a way that this is allowed.

It's the standard MM settings which need to be done in a way that INIV->GORE is possible. As far as I know you have to make sure that in the vendor master (view "purchasing data") the "Indicator: GR-Based Invoice Verification"-flag is NOT set. The same flag also exists in the info record (ME12) where it also needs to be removed.

I don't know if further customizing and / or master data settings in MM is required to enable INIV->GORE.

Kind regards,

Steffen