3780663 - Bugs and Missing Features for Automatic Payables Posting in Intercompany Billing when using the Background Processing Framework (bgPF) Solution via Output Channel EDI

With the new solution based on the background processing framework (bgPF), several bugs and missing features have been identified:

1. The error message "Cannot determine tax code for the receiving company code" is triggered when generating the accounts payable (AP) document, one of the possible reason is that billing item has no tax code.
2. Account determination for some condition types (e.g., Surcharge/Discount) from second item is not triggered correctly.
3. Product/Material is not filled in the AP document.
4. Profit center and partner profit center are missing in the AP document created from EDI billing.
5. The EDI solution currently only supports a positive gross amount. If a negative gross amount is entered, the following error occurs: "Specify positive values only for field &GROSS_AMOUNT& (parameter &HEADERDATA&)".
6. The EDI solution currently does not support multi-period intercompany billing. For example, when billing requests span multiple months (e.g., Mar 1 to June 30), the system doesn't post the supplier invoice in the receiving company code. However, the process works correctly when restricted to a single month.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

1. Implement or enable the new solution based on the bgPF for intercompany billing to AP posting.
2. Post AP documents from EDI-based billing and observe the errors.

• Issue 1: One of the possible reason is that billing item has no tax code. This is a bug, as tax code determination should not run for items without a tax code.
• Issue 2: The current EDI solution only processes condition types for the first item. If a surcharge/discount condition type is starting from second item, it cannot be identified, causing incorrect G/L account selection. This is a bug, all condition types for all items must be processed correctly.
• Issue 3, 4: Coding logic error within the EDI solution.
• Issue 5, 6: Features missing from the EDI solution.

These known bugs and missing features are planned to be fixed in the upcoming releases according to the schedule below:

• Release CE2608.1 (available for retesting from September 14): Issues 1, 2, and 3.
• Release CE2608.2 (available for retesting from October 9): Issues 4, 5, and 6.

For more information about the background processing framework solution (bgPF), see the document Automatic Posting of Payables to the Selling Company’s Accounts.

SAP help portal Automatic Posting of Payables to the Selling Company’s Accounts.

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