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3513713 - FI invoice is available for payment even when the purchase order is cancelled

Symptom

FI invoice is available for payment even when the purchase order is cancelled. The payment can be made to the invoice through accounting applications.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Create a Purchase Order.
  2. Post the invoice.
  3. Cancel the Purchase Order.
  4. Make payment against the invoice using Post Outgoing Payments/Manage Automatic Payments.

Cause

  • Postings are made within credit memo posting logic.
  • System has to take all previous postings into account in its calculations.
  • Total quantities of all previous invoices, credit memos, and goods receipts are taken into account.

Resolution

  • This is the standard system design. When you cancel an invoice, the system posts a credit memo for the data in the invoice. The postings are made in accordance with the credit memo posting logic.
  • This means that the postings in the invoice are not necessarily reversed. This is especially the case when an invoice is to be cancelled for a purchase order for which several invoices have already been posted.
  • Similarly, when you cancel a credit memo, the postings made in the credit memo are not necessarily reversed.

See Also

46564 - Reversing an invoice/credit memo: Posting logic

2684816 - Posting logic for the reversal of an Invoice - SAP ERP & S/4HANA

1609927 - MR8M / Credit Memo postings - SAP ERP & SAP S/4HANA

Keywords

Post Outgoing Payments, Manage Automatic Payments, reversal, reversal flag, manage supplier line items, invoice credit memo, MM, purchasing order, accounting document , KBA , FI-FIO-AP-PAY-2CL , Payment Apps (Public Cloud) , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud all versions