Hi Experts.

Please see the process below and give me your wise advise.

1. Invoice amounts for an item from a vendor is too high, but this is posted as invoice document with
price variance.
It contains price variance so it is ticked to block for payment.

2. Somehow, vendor gave me a credit memo for an item that is processed already(1.).
Assumed the item`s amounts that is already invoiced is 100 PC, I posted credit memo for this item
as 30 PC.

3. In the purchase order history, it applies credit memo for invoiced quantity and amounts.
But when I examine blocked invoice document via MRBR(Release blocked invoice) credit memo that
I posted before is not applied.

How I can apply credit memo to blocked invoice document?

Or, What should I do for this situation?

Thank you in advance.

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Updated

The blocked invoice remains blocked even after you enter the credit memo.
You must run MRBR to release the blocked invoices. If you run it with the

option to release automatically, it will release all blocked invoices where

the discrepancy has been resolved such as your scenario. You can setup
MRBR to run as a scheduled job with this setting periodically (multiple
times per day or just once a day) to clear these.
Original answer by Anna Nov 21, 2013
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Deepak Mehta replied Nov 21, 2013

There is no such thing as a Credit Memo being applied.

If you run the transaction to release the blocked invoice. It can be done automatically or manually.

After that, the invoice will be shown as POSTED.

Deepak
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Anna replied Nov 21, 2013

The blocked invoice remains blocked even after you enter the credit memo.
You must run MRBR to release the blocked invoices. If you run it with the
option to release automatically, it will release all blocked invoices where
the discrepancy has been resolved such as your scenario. You can setup
MRBR to run as a scheduled job with this setting periodically (multiple
times per day or just once a day) to clear these.

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Remove invoice and credit note block

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Keyur Shah
Aluminum
Keyur Shah Apr 18, 2011 12:26 PM
Hello all,

I have got a query with respect to transaction MRBR (Remove Block on invoice). The
process that we follow is:

1) When AP clerk enters invoice, he enters the invoice with a 'R' block. This blocks
the invoice from getting paid.

2) Every evening there is a background job scheduled with transaction MRBR. What
this job does is removes the 'R' block from the invoice if it has got a corresponding
GR.

3) This invoice then appears in the payment run and is paid off.

The problem with this process is when the credit notes are raised on account. We
link the credit notes and invoices by copying the document number of invoice in the
'invoice reference' field while entering the credit note. The 'R' block also gets copied
onto the credit note (if the invoice has the block). Transction MRBR runs overnight
and removes the block from the invocie (if it has a corresponding GR) and the
invoice becomes free for payment. However there is no parameter in the program
to remove the block from the credit note as well. What eventually happens is that
the invoice becomes free for payment, the credit note remains 'R' blocked and
hence does not appear in the payment run to offset the invoice and the invoice gets
paid off even though it had a credit note.

Is anyone aware of how to remove the 'R' block from the credit note or if there is a
better process to work with invoice and credit notes.

Thanks for all your help

Regards

Keyur
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Re: Remove invoice and credit note block
Jeyakanthan A
Diamond
Jeyakanthan A Apr 18, 2011 7:19 PM (in response to Keyur Shah)
Why don't you manually clear FI document of invoice against credit memo
immediately ?

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Helpful Answer Re: Remove invoice and credit note block
JiQing Zhao
Steel
JiQing Zhao Apr 19, 2011 4:17 AM (in response to Keyur Shah)
normally, credit memo should be able to remove the block manually as soon as they
are put in the sap.

they should not be mixed with other AP invoices.

and if the credit memo need to be paid, then it should have something like approval
doc to support the block removing.

if it is just reversal doc against wrong doc, then also need remove the block by
supervisor asap.

Edited by: JiQing Zhao on Apr 19, 2011 10:17 AM

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Re: Remove invoice and credit note block
Vikas Singh
Glass
Vikas Singh Jul 2, 2012 10:50 AM (in response to JiQing Zhao)
JiQing Zhao wrote:

if it is just reversal doc against wrong doc, then also need remove the block by
supervisor asap.

Edited by: JiQing Zhao on Apr 19, 2011 10:17 AM

I have a same case, but as you suggest to remove the block by supervisor, What TCode are you referring to?
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