What is an open sales order?
An open sales order is where theorder has not been delivered (physical goods).
Open Sales order : I will explaintaking an example, suppose there is an order for 100 qty and against thisorder, only 50 are being delivered till its delivery date . i.e. it ispartially delivered. then its status will be open . because it is not fullydelivered.
You can check the open order statusin VA02 in status tab. (double click on item and at item level chk thestatus) or check in transaction VA05 all the open orders.
In SAP SD, the document flow willsummarize the status of each document. In order, they are:
1. Sales order : once delivery hasbeen created, the status of the order changes from "open" to "completed".
2. Outbound delivery : when itemsare picked and posted for goods issue, the status remains at "being processed";the status becomes complete only when billing is done.
3. Billing document : when billingdocument is created and saved, and posted to accounting, the status ofthe delivery becomes "complete"; the status of billing becomes "complete"as well; an accounting document is created and the status is "not cleared".
4. Payments posting affects thestatus of the accounting document; hence, you look at table BSEG. oncepayment is posted with reference to this accounting document, the statusbecomes "cleared".
How can we know using data intables whether a sales order is open or not?
Check in Transaction VA05 and intable the status filed will tell you the status of open order.
Table VBAP / VBAK / VBUK (header)and VBUP (item)
Which table is updated when customerpays against an invoice?
Check table VBAK / VBAP / VBRK /VBRP and VBFA you can chk the document flow.
Can you tell if a sales ordercan be considered open if delivery has happened but payment has not beendone yet?
Yes, that sales order will be consideredas complete order. not open order.
Delivery will be open against whichbilling is not happened.
How to close any open sales order?
Go to transaction VA05, here youcan see list of all Sales order open for any particular sales area.
You can either do mass maintenanceto close all the open order by giving rejection reason. Or you can checkone by one order & reject the pending item.
Go to VA02, input the sale orderand execute. Now select the line item and assign Reason for Rejection whichyou will find on the right top side.
If you have not delivered any quantity,then you can delete the sales order from the tcode VA02 - Enter your docno- in the menu bar go to sales document-then DELETE.
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