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3145841 - Wrong Fiscal Year as Suffix Selected in the Customer Invoice Numbering for India

Symptom

System selected previous year as the Fiscal Year as Suffix in Customer Invoice Numbering for India

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Customer invoicing -> Invoice Documents
  2. Select the Customer Invoice PQR-AAAA-2023 (PQR-AAAA-2023 represents the Invoice ID)
  3. You are expecting the system to select PQR-AAAA-2024 since the Invoice date is from year 2024. 

Cause

In the system, the fiscal year for India is considered from April to March for Customer Invoice numbering and it is hardcoded.

In the rules for the document numbering formats for India, the indicator is specified as Fiscal Year as Suffix.

  1. Go to the Business Configuration work center.
  2. Go to the Overview view.
  3. Search for: Document Numbering Formats for Customer Invoicing
  4. Click on Define document numbering formats for India
  5. For Company XXX, Fiscal Year as Suffix is maintained. (XXX represents the company ID)

If you activate this indicator the Inian Fiscal Year is used as Suffix and not the Calendar Year.

Example:

  1. In the document numbering formats for India you activated the Fiscal Year as Suffix indicator for your rule.
  2. You created an Invoice on the 01.05.2024 with the Invoice Date 01.05.2024 and the Tax Country India.
  3. The Invoice created will have the ID PQR-AAAA-2023 since it falls into the Fiscal Year 2023 (1st April of 2023 to 31st March 2024) for India.

For all other countries the Calendar Year is used as Suffix and the Indicator is also named in the Document Numbering Format Rules as Calendar Year as Suffix for all other countries.

Resolution

As best practice the fiscal year for India start from 1st April of a year to 31st March of the next year. For India, the suffix will  change from April.

Keywords

Wrong Invoice number; Invoice Date not matching; Calendar Year; Fiscal Year; ID; Invoice ID; 
, KBA , AP-CI-CI-GLO , Cross-Country Extensions , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions