| Sales schedules and Central Invoicing |  |
| If the items that are ordered with the sales schedule line are (partially) shipped, you can invoice the delivered goods. To be able to send the invoice, you must release the sales schedule to Central Invoicing in the Release Sales Orders/Schedules to Invoicing (tdsls4247m000) session. Shipment details and shipment corrections To be able to invoice (partial) shipments, ERP LN files shipment details in the Sales Schedule Actual Delivery Lines (tdsls3140m000) and Sales Schedule Actual Delivery Lines (tdsls3140m100) sessions. You can also enter and release shipment corrections in these sessions. Shipment detail In the Sales Schedule Actual Delivery Lines (tdsls3140m000) and Sales Schedule Actual Delivery Lines (tdsls3140m100) sessions, ERP LN files all shipments that take place for a sales schedule line. If a sales schedule line's ordered quantity is (partially) shipped, ERP LN creates a Delivery record with the Goods Delivered status for the shipped quantity. Invoicing of shipped items takes place based on the shipment details that are specified in these sessions. This setup enables you to invoice partial shipments as well. A shipment detail record goes through the following statuses: Goods Delivered Released to Invoicing Invoiced Processed Shipment correction You can also use the Sales Schedule Actual Delivery Lines (tdsls3140m000) and Sales Schedule Actual Delivery Lines (tdsls3140m100) sessions to correct shipped quantities. These corrections take place for financial, not logistic reasons. If, for example, shipped items are lost during shipment and you do not want to invoice your business partner for these lost items, you can reduce the shipped quantity. To do so, select a Delivery record and, from the Specific menu, choose Enter Shipment Correction. As a result, you can specify the Correction Quantity in the details session. You can only create a Correction for a Delivery record with one of the following statuses: Goods Delivered Released to Invoicing Invoiced A shipment correction record goes through the following statuses: Created Released to Invoicing Invoiced Processed Note You must confirm a shipment correction record with the Created status before it can be released to Central Invoicing. To confirm the Correction record, in the Sales Schedule Actual Delivery Lines (tdsls3140m000) and Sales Schedule Actual Delivery Lines (tdsls3140m100): Overview session, from the Specific menu, choose Confirm. Details session, click Confirm. Note You can only confirm a Correction record if the sales schedule line status is Goods Delivered, Released to Invoicing, or Invoiced. You cannot enter and confirm Correction records if the sales schedule line's status is Processed. If you confirm a Correction record, ERP LN: Creates a financial transaction of the Shipment Variance type in the Integration Transactions (tfgld4582m000) session. Decreases the business partner's open balance with the correction amount. Updates the sales contract data, if a sales contract is linked. Inserts a record in the sales schedule history. Does not update the shipped CUMs, because the shipment correction is only executed for financial reasons and not logistic. To release shipment details and shipment corrections to Central Invoicing To release sales schedule shipment details and shipment corrections to Central Invoicing, from the Specific menu of the Sales Schedule Actual Delivery Lines (tdsls3140m000) and Sales Schedule Actual Delivery Lines (tdsls3140m100) overview sessions, choose Release Sales Orders/Schedules to Invoicing. As a result, the Release Sales Orders/Schedules to Invoicing (tdsls4247m000) session is started. The following data in the following order is released to Central Invoicing: A sales schedule line's Delivery records with the Goods Delivered status. Confirmed sales schedule line's Correction records with the Created status. Note Releasing of Delivery records and then Correction records is performed in sequence of sequence number (sequence of creation). If you release a sales schedule to Central Invoicing, the status of the Delivery records and Correction records is changed to Released to Invoicing. If a sales schedule is released to Central Invoicing, ERP LN determines the Delivery 's Receipt Amount as follows:
                                  Delivered Quantity / Quantity * Schedule Line Amount
Note ERP LN retrieves the Quantity and Schedule Line Amount from the Sales Schedule - Lines (tdsls3107m000) session. ERP LN determines the Correction 's Receipt Amount as follows:
                                  Correction Quantity / Delivered Quantity of the Shipment Detail *
    Receipt Amount of the Shipment Detail.
If all Delivery records and Correction records for a sales schedule line have the Released to Invoicing status, the sales schedule line's status also becomes Released to Invoicing. To create and post invoices in Central Invoicing The creation and posting of the invoices for sales schedules takes place in the Sales and Warehouse Invoice Data (cisli2540m000) session in Central Invoicing. Note ERP LN creates a credit invoice (line) for Correction records. If an invoice is sent for the sales schedule line's Delivery or Correction: The Delivery or Correction records receive the Invoiced status and the Invoice and Invoice Date fields are filled in the Sales Schedule Actual Delivery Lines (tdsls3140m000) session. ERP LN updates the total invoiced quantity for the sales schedule in the Invoiced CUM (tdsls3533m000) session and the Sales Schedules (tdsls3111m000) session. ERP LN updates the Sales Schedule - Lines (tdsls3107m000) session with the invoice data. If all Delivery records and Correction records for a sales schedule line have the Invoiced status, the sales schedule line's status also becomes Invoiced. Related topics To process/delete sales schedules Sales schedule procedure |