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3487628 - Performance Issue While Creating Project Invoice Request

Symptom

You are trying to create a project invoice request and you receive an info message. 
- Due to the large amount of non-invoiced time and expense items (currently XXX), the selection of expenses has been restricted to a reduced time frame to improve performance.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Project Management work center
  2. Go to Not Invoiced Time and Expenses view
  3. Select the relevant Project
  4. Click on New - Manual Project Invoice Request
  5. Info message appears

Cause

We suggest you assign expenses to the fixed price sales order items. However please find the limitations in the below section. 

Resolution

To improve the performance of project invoicing, the following rules apply in case of a large amount of non-invoiced time and expense items:

1. If there are more than 5.000 non-invoiced time and expense items, the expense restriction period will be defined by the system so that only 5.000 items fall within this period. A message informs the user about this restriction.
2. If the user enhances the period so that more than 5.000, but less than 20.000 items, fall within this period, a warning asks the user to define a smaller period.
3. If the user enhances the period so that more than 20.000 items fall within this period, this change is rejected by the system.
4. If a project invoice request is based on an invoice schedule, and if there are more than 20.000 non-invoiced time and expense items, the project invoice request is not created automatically.

Instead, the user is informed via the work list that the project invoice request cannot be created due to too many non-invoiced time and expense items. The user then needs to cancel the relevant invoice schedule item and create the project invoice request manually.

See Also

Refer to Internal Memo

Keywords

Performance Issue While Creating Project Invoice Request; creating customer project invoice request (CPIR) takes a long time  , KBA , SRD-PRO-PMN , Project Management , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2405