Symptom
- In MIRO (Create Supplier Invoice), material lines for a PO item with multiple Goods Receipts (GR) and identical quantity splits can be identified by Material Document/GR reference and item information.
- NB-Freight lines are displayed separately without a visible GR-level reference.
- Automation cannot reliably map freight quantities/values from an external file to the correct freight line when multiple GRs exist for the same PO item.
- No error messages are displayed.
Environment
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
- Fiori UI for Invoice Verification (Public Cloud)
Reproducing the Issue
- Create a Purchase Order with a single item and post multiple Goods Receipts for that item with the same quantity splits.
- Open MIRO (Create Supplier Invoice) for the PO.
- Observe that material lines show Material Document/GR reference and item information, allowing identification by GR split.
- Observe that NB-Freight lines are listed separately and do not show a visible GR-level reference, making it impossible to assign a freight line to a specific GR split.
Cause
- Delivery costs (freight and other planned costs) are maintained and accumulated at the purchase-order-item and cost-type level, not per individual GR.
- During invoice creation, the system provides one freight line per cost type for the entire PO item without linkage to a specific GR or material document.
- This is standard system behavior; the goods-receipt-based checking option applies to goods lines only and does not create per-delivery freight lines.
Resolution
- Post a single freight amount per cost type for each PO item; do not attempt to split freight by GR.
- Before submitting each invoice, read the current outstanding freight amount for the PO item (for example, from PO history) so the amount reflects what is not yet invoiced.
- For fixed (flat-fee) freight, avoid distributing the amount across deliveries to prevent the system from proposing the full remaining amount unintentionally.
- If a bill of lading number is recorded on each GR and manual processing is acceptable, a user can manually select freight against a specific delivery by bill of lading during invoice entry; this is not suited for automation.
- Verify the exact invoice interface fields for freight/cost-type items in the current release before implementing automation.
See Also
Keywords
MIRO, Create Supplier Invoice, planned delivery costs, freight, NB-freight, GR reference, goods receipt based, GR split, multiple GRs, invoice verification, PO item, automation mapping, bill of lading, delivery costs grouping , KBA , MM-FIO-IV-2CL , Fiori UI for Invoice Verification (Public Cloud) , Problem
Product
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions
SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public