This process enables you to select all open orders that are due for billing, and collect them in one billing document. This is useful for customers who prefer to receive an invoice containing all open (not yet billed) orders at regular intervals.
Prerequisites
- You have generally entered no copy requirements for VSS billing types in Vehicle Sales and Service (especially not for Collective Billing) in Customizing for Sales under Billing > Billing Documents > Maintain Copy Control for Billing Documents > Copy Control: Sales Document to Billing Document. Ensure that the billing quantity for the order quantity is set to C. Although the VSS order can be split, the invoice always considers the full amount. Ensure that the pricing type is set to G.
- In Customizing for Vehicle Sales and Service (VSS) under Order > Specific Processes > Define Collective Billing Indicator, you have defined the order types (control codes) for which collective billing is valid.
- In Change Customer (transaction /DBE/BP), you have selected one of the values All Orders, Service Orders or Parts Orders via the pushbutton VSS Collective Billing in the field Collective Billing. By doing this, you define customers as relevant to the collective billing process. The system copies the entry from this field into the order header data as default value.
Process
- If the orders do not yet exist, you can create them (for example, service, parts, or vehicle orders).
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| You cannot use collective billing for internal orders or orders with revaluation. In addition, you cannot cancel billing documents that you created via the collective billing function. |
Result
You have created one invoice for more than one order. The system has updated the order statuses.