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2789832 - Self-invoice Italy-Prerequisite step

Symptom

You may face this error while creating self-invoice for Italy.

Supplier invoice Error message: Supplier must not be the same as buyer

Customer invoice Error message:Account and seller are identical; change one of them

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1.  Go to Supplier invoicing work center
  2.  Go to common task Create new invoice without reference to Purchase order
  3.  Enter all details and click on Post

or

  1. Go to Customer invoicing work center
  2. Go to common task New manual Invoice
  3. Enter all details and click on Release.

You wil get the error.

Cause

For self-invoice you need to use dummy Supplier and customer.

Resolution

Please create dummy Supplier and dummy customer with same details of your Company (Do this one time activity for each company).
Then whenever you have Non-EU invoices for this company you have to create self-invoice for it, that is one supplier invoice (incoming self-invoice) and one customer invoice (outgoing self-invoice).

See Also

Also follow steps in below link of help document for all further details about self-invoice and then click on next and next to explore fully about this topic of self-1invoice.

https://help.sap.com/viewer/2e30d84496214461ad763692c3a0b4a5/1905/en-US /d9e39ce0f074467b9a52a2eb51ae14f2.html

Keywords

Self invoice, Self invoice Italy,Supplier must not be the same as buyer , KBA , AP-POP-PO , Purchase Order , AP-CI , Customer Invoice Processing , AP-SIP-SIV , Supplier Invoice , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions