Payment plan BBP procedure, supplier Change

[Former Member]

All,

I think this only applies to the North american customers. My client wants to implement budget billing plans for customers who change supplier. In this case he was the supplier and distributor before the supplier change. After the supplier change, he will only remain distributor, though he will still have to invoice the customer for supply on behalf of the new supplier.

The customer had a budget billing plan before the supplier change and wants to remain on a BBP. Unbilled Budget Balance should be carried forward to the new contract and also the budget billing amounts should be the same after switch.

In IMG entry > SAP Utilities > Invoicing > Budget billing plan > Payment plan > Define Payment plan categories you will find the checkbox CopyDataSupplch. The description in F1 kinda suits the requirements (see underneath). Does anyone have experience implementing this. How is the Supplier change triggered? Via IDE?

Thanks,

regards,

Alex

Supplier Change: Copy Paymnt Plan and Balance-Forward Amount

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There is a contract change due to a change in supplier. This means that the payment plan data is copied from the previous contract to a new contract. Both contracts must belong to the same contract account. Different data is copied, depending upon whether the payment plan for the previous contract is of category BBP or AMB.

BBP Procedure:

Payment plan: The entire payment plan including corresponding due dates and amounts is copied to the new contract. Each start date of the payment plan is postponed to the move-in date of the new contract. Due dates that are before this date are excluded accordingly from the copying process. The start month and alternative start month are correspondingly adjusted in the new contract.

The portions of the new contract must be identical to those of the old contract, so that the payment plan can be copied.

Manual history: If a manual history exists for the old contract, this is also copied. If manual history data already exists for the new contract, it is first of all deleted.

AMB Procedure:

With the AMB procedure, only the manual history and the balance-forward amount are copied. The same conditions and prerequisites for the BBP procedure apply.

[Former Member]

Hi,

This is a typical North American De-regulated scenario.

You are right. Supplier change/switch is triggered by Idoc(IDE)

Idocs are references by external POD which in tern link to internal POD and installation.

At any given give, one external POD can linked to multiple installation (one supplier and one distributor)

The below path (as you already mentioned)

In IMG entry > SAP Utilities > Invoicing > Budget billing plan > Payment plan > Define Payment plan categories you will find the checkbox CopyDataSupplch.

Will satisfy your scenario. (I have seen it with BBP procedure 3, running healthy in production)

Regards,

Sanjoy

[Former Member]

Hi Sanjoy,

Thanks for your reply. Would you know what the standard function module is that processes this IDOC. This function module must be one that moves in/moves out, uses the supply scenario for this POD and does something with this flag.

Can't find any documentation on service.sap.com.

Thanks,

regards,

Alex

[former_member185489]

Hello all, did anyone get a solution on this. I was able to get a payment plan created with final invoice but not sure how to transfer the balance forward amount.