Most of the business organizations would like to create their customer invoices in a batch job (Background job). This ba...
Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 2 Setup “RV60SBAT” as a batch job ............................................................................................................ 5 Difference in billing batch job compared to any other batch job ............................................................ 5 How to find batch jobs ............................................................................................................................. 6 List of collective run ................................................................................................................................. 7
Introduction Most of the business organizations would like to create their customer invoices in a batch job (Background job). This batch job can be setup in a way that it executes in a pre-‐defined frequency (eg: Once a day at night) and pick all documents that are due for billing. Such billing due documents can be comprise of; • • •
Sales orders in case of the third party orders for order related billing Credit / Debit memo requests which does not have “Billing block” for order related billing Post goods issues deliveries in case of delivery related billing
We can execute the as billing due list in SAP via transaction VF04.
If you execute this transaction manually, you have 3 options to choose.
1.
-‐ One delivery document to one billing document online processing
2.
-‐ Combine multiple delivery documents in to one billing document background processing
3.
-‐ Combine multiple delivery documents in to one billing document online processing
Today let’s look at how we can setup this transaction as a background job and key differences in this billing batch job against any other. If we look at the program assigned to VF04 transaction, that’s “SDBILLDL”. But this is not the program that you will have to setup as a batch job.
SAP has provided a separate program for invoice creation in background called “RV60SBAT”. This program can be accessed via transaction “VF06”.
This program has all different tabs available in “VF04” transaction under one screen
Setup “RV60SBAT” as a batch job First you need to define a variant for this program based on your organization elements. • •
Transaction: SE38 Program: RV60SBAT
Then you can schedule that program as a batch job using transaction SM36 Please click here to see how you can set up any program as a batch job
Difference in billing batch job compared to any other batch job When you schedule program “RV60SBAT” as a background job, it is not the actual program that creates billing document via batch job. The “RV60SBAT” program creates a new background job dynamically and schedule that new job for invoice creation. Eg:
That’s the program, which actually creates those invoices in SAP.
How to find batch jobs Transaction: SM37 First you need to find your batch job that you have scheduled for “RV60SBAT” program. Using the spool list of that program, you should be able to locate the name of the new batch job. From the “SM37” output screen, you can double click on the
Icon.
From the result screen, when you double click on the
Icon to view details.
You can see the new job name as shown below.
Now if you search that job name in Transaction SM37, you will see the new time that it was scheduled.
List of collective run As an example, if you schedule billing documents in batch job using program “RV60SBAT”, you can view those billing documents that got created using transaction “V.21”
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