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2956887 - Quantity To Be Invoiced Time Confirmations Are Showing Quantity To Be Written Off

Symptom

You can see the Time Confirmations are shown as Quantity To Be Written Off. However you expected Quantity To Be Invoiced.

or

How to set the times  to appear automatically as  Time to Be Written off in Project invoice request or In Not invoiced time and expenses

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Project Management work center.
  2. Select Invoice Preparation view.
  3. Select Not Invoiced Time and Expenses subview.
  4. Search and Select the Project XYZ(XYZ represents Project ID).
  5. Select the Edit Time and Expenses button.
  6. Here you can see the Time Confirmations are shown as Quantity To Be Written Off. However you expected them Quantity To Be Invoiced.

Cause

Cause 1: You have removed quantity in field Non billable hours while doing time confirmation.

or

Cause 2: You have not set the Billable flag for the time confirmations which are shown as To Be Written Off.

Resolution

For Cause 1:

  1. Go to work center: Home
  2. Go to Self-Service Overview
  3. Edit Time Sheet
  4. Maintain Duration for a particular day
  5. Go to labour information tab
  6. Ensure you enter Billable hours

For Cause 2:

If the Billable flag is set to true for the respective project task or work package, the time confirmations associated to the work package will be available for invoicing as To Be Invoiced. When the flag is unset, all the time confirmations done after this change will be available for invoicing as To Be Written-Off.

A) Steps to be followed to correct the existing entries:

  1. Go to Project Management work center.
  2. Select Invoice Preparation view.
  3. Select Not Invoiced Time and Expenses subview.
  4. Search and Select the Project XYZ.
  5. Select the Edit Time and Expenses button.
  6. Here you can maintain the Quantity To Be Invoiced or delete the Quantity To Be Written Off.

B) Steps to be followed to ensure future entries will not be written off:

  1. Go to Project Management work center.
  2. Select Invoice Preparation view.
  3. Select Not Invoiced Time and Expenses subview.
  4. Search and Select the Project XYZ.
  5. Select the Edit Time and Expenses button.
  6. Select the Edit Assignment Rules button.
  7. Select View All Rules button.
  8. Select the respective Rule.
  9. Here set the To Be Written-Off flag is set untrue and maintain the rules accordingly. 

Keywords

Time confirmation; Quantity; Written off; Billable; Invoice; Project; Expense , KBA , SRD-SRM-PRO , Purchase Requests and Orders , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions