This relates to countries where they are not legally allowed to park documents on the vendor account. This is because numbers created must be in sequential order of when they appear on the vendor account. Non-Parked Countries are: All Latin America, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Morocco, Netherlands and Luxembourg.
This is how it was explained to me:
- Invoice comes in on May 1. Entered into SAP on May 1, which generates invoice doc #01
- Invoice comes in from the same vendor on May 15. Entered into SAP on the same day, which generates invoice doc #30
- Doc #01 was on hold due to mismatched issue.
- However, doc #30 had no issues and was posted for payment on May 16.
- Doc #01 issue was resolved and posted for payment on May 18.
Therefore from a posting, the invoice is out of sequence as posting of #30 occurred first and #01, happened at a later date.
- Has anyone heard of this requirement?
- Do I understand the "invoice sequence" regulation correctly from my example?
- If this is a standard regulation in EU and all of Latin America, how is it handled in SAP?
Thank you in advance for your help!!