Advance Sales Process

[former_member301027]

Dear All,

I need to configure the advance sales process in SAP.

As SAP don't have any specific procedure in advance sales, so I prefer to have it through down payment request.

My client is selling tangible goods (Chemical product) to customer, so is it possible to deal the scenario with down payment process, as in many thread i read it can only be applicable for order related billing not delivery related, please suggest on this.

And is there ay other way to perform the cycle in the system, looking forward for the feedback, thanks.

[VeselinaPeykova]

Actually, it is possible to configure advance payment process for delivery-related billing.

You can read about it here: 1788841 - Consulting note for condition-based down payments.

Here is a blog on the topic as well: Down Payment Processing with Document Condition.

Still, it depends not only on the specific business case, but also on the local legislation whether you can use any of the standard solutions for advance payment (the conventional one based on billing plan or the approach with condition-based down payment).

There are also some solutions (outlined in various SAP notes) for certain countries where the treatment of advance sales is different from what is described in the standard processes. Make sure to search in the support portal if what you read about advance payment for sales does not fit to what is expected in terms of official reporting.

Make sure to discuss the approach with your local finance experts.

For example, in my country none of these options for advance payment are permitted due to the specifics in the local legislation and there are no SAP notes for a country-specific solution, so we simply build our own 🙂 .

[former_member301027]

Dear Veselina Peykova,

Thanks for your valuable input, I just need to clarify the following as IS.

- Its an ECC to S4 Hana move project, currently they have a credit control area for the advance sale, they take payment from finance side and mark the credit control are, so that system accordingly set the credit exposure and order check credit check and inform accordingly.

Now the same process I want to run from down payment, you are right we will create the down payment from sales order, but how system check that we receive the payment or not, just by removing the delivery block we get to know this, or is there any other feature as well that ensure that system take the payment against sales order.

Hope you under stand my query, please share your valueable feedback, thanks.

[former_member301027]

Veselina Peykova,

Sir looking for your feedback, plus if possible please do share the system behavior if i don't book the down payment and process sales order for delivery, what behavior system will do ? thanks a lot.