3779347 - Error "Cannot determine tax code for the receiving company code" FINS_AP_ICO_BILLING004 when generate EDI for Intercompany Billing - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

• Switching from IDOC-based solution to its successor Background processing framework (bgPF) method to automatically trigger supplier invoices in the selling company's accounts from intercompany billing, and encounter the error “Cannot determine tax code for the receiving company code”, error message ID FINS_AP_ICO_BILLING004.
• The method transition is recommended in Automatic Posting of Payables to the Selling Company’s Accounts and Intercompany Payables Posting in Your System: Upcoming Mandatory Transition from Current IDoc Solution to Successor bgPF Solution.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions earlier than 2608.

1. Follow the steps outlined in Setting Up the Posting of Payables via Background Processing Framework (bgPF) to transiton from the IDoc-based solution to the bgPF-based solution.
2. Create an intercompany billing document.
3. Create/trigger the EDI output for intercompany AP posting.
4. Check the Message Monitoring application.
5. Observe error FINS_AP_ICO_BILLING004 “Cannot determine tax code for the receiving company code”.

A known code bug in EDI-based intercompany posting attempts to do tax code determination even for the billing items that do not have tax code (or items with zero amount). This leads to the observed error “Cannot determine tax code for the receiving company code” (FINS_AP_ICO_BILLING004).

This is a known issue and the fix will be released in CE2608.1 upgrade. For versions earlier than 2608.1, customer still need to keep using the IDoc solution until the update is available. 

FINS_AP_ICO_BILLING004, intercompany billing, intercompany AP, EDI output, tax code determination, receiving company code, zero amount item, billing item without tax code, CE2602, CE2608.2, FI-AP, external interfaces, message monitoring, public cloud , KBA , FI-AP-AP-M-2CL , Ext. Interfaces/BAPIs/ALE (Public Cloud) , Problem