3775802 - Peppol Customer Invoice Incorrectly Uses Account Party as Buyer Instead of Bill-To Party

When a Customer Invoice is generated with Peppol output, the Buyer information in the generated XML is populated from the Account Party instead of the Bill-To Party.

For scenarios where the Account Party and Bill-To Party are different business partners, the Bill-To Party (invoice recipient) is expected to be represented as the Buyer in the Peppol document.

This behavior may lead to concerns with e-invoicing requirements, where the invoice recipient and the buyer are expected to be represented as separate entities.

SAP Business ByDesign

1. Go to the Customer Invoicing work center.
2. Navigate to the Invoice Documents view.
3. Select All Documents from the Show dropdown field.
4. Select any Invoice ID.
5. Choose Edit and navigate to Output History.
6. Select the View XML button.
7. Search for the Buyer information in the generated Peppol XML.

Result:

The Buyer information is populated from the Account Party instead of the Bill-To Party.

This is the standard system behavior.

• For Peppol-enabled Customer Invoices in SAP Business ByDesign, the Buyer information is derived from the Account Party. Mapping the Buyer information from the Bill-To Party is currently not supported.
• The current application design does not provide any configuration option to change the Buyer mapping from the Account Party to the Bill-To Party.
• This behavior is by design and cannot be modified through standard system configuration.

Currently, SAP Business ByDesign maps the Buyer information in the Peppol Customer Invoice XML from the Account Party.

Changing the Buyer mapping to use the Bill-To Party is not available in the standard product.

We added the requirement to change the mapping of the Bill-To Party to be represented as the Buyer in the Peppol XML to our product backlog to be considered in a future release.

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