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2707172 - How to Manually Trigger a Scheduled Invoice Request for a Sales Order

Symptom

You created a Sales Order with an Invoice Schedule for todays date, but you would like to manually trigger the invoice schedule and not wait for the regular job which automatically runs and checks the invoice dates and creates the Scheduled Invoice Request every night.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Sales Orders work center.
  2. Go to Sales Orders view.
  3. Edit the Sales Order XYZ. (XYZ represents the Sales Order ID)
  4. Click on View all and navigate to Pricing and Invoicing tab and the Invoice Schedule sub tab.
  5. You have maintained an invoice schedule.

Resolution

To create the Create Scheduled Invoice Requests for the Invoice Schedule manually and immediately, kindly follow the below steps for non project based items:

  1. Go to the Customer Invoicing work center.
  2. Select the Invoice Requests view.
  3. Select the relevant Sales Order Invoice Request for the Sales Order XYZ and click on the Edit button.
  4. Click on the You Can Also button and select the Create Scheduled Invoice Requests option.
  5. Save and Close the Sales Order Invoice Request.
  6. Go to the Customer Invoicing work center.
  7. Select the Invoice Requests view.
  8. Search with Sales Order ID XYZ.
  9. You will be able to see the Invoice Request with the status To Be Invoiced.

For project based items please follow the below steps: 

  1. Go to the Customer Invoicing work center.
  2. Select the Project Invoicing view. 
  3. Select the Sales Orders sub view.
  4. Search for the Sales Order ID XYZ.
  5. Select the Sales Order XYZ. 
  6. In the Sales Order ID field, next to the ID XYZ, click on the little arrow mark in the bottom corner and select Create Scheduled Project Invoice Request.

See Also

Help Center Document: Invoice Schedule

2844565 - How to Influence the Creation of a Scheduled Invoice Request

For project based item please check the KBA 2482459 - Scheduled Project Invoice Request is not Created

Keywords

Change invoice schedule; Invoice Request not generating; Unable to invoice; Scheduled Invoice Request no documents under invoice request,unable to invoice sales order,invoice request missing , KBA , AP-CI-CI , Customer Invoice , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions