COM Invoicing

Hello Group,

We are on MAPICS XA R6 PTF 5788. We use mainly COM, MRP, PUR, IM, EPDM, 
PCC, PMC, IFM etc and all these modules are interfaced each other. I have 
a question to post to our valuable group. We have a location (factory) in 
Thailand, which is in an export zone. As per the local government 
regulations any shipment moved out of the factory should be recognized as 
revenue. But, we have some overseas customers who have got HUB location in 
Thailand outside of this export zone.

As per the agreements with our Customer who has got HUB location, we can 
only invoice them when they pull the stock out of HUB, until such time the 
stock in the HUB belongs to us and we need to track the inventory.

In the past and now, we used manual Invoice to move the shipment to the 
customers HUB location and manually create AR invoice in IFM. Once the 
customer pull the stock from HUB, we create shipment (Process Item ready 
for Shipping), which will pass the SA transaction (Sales Shipment) to 
reduce the inventory and send the AR invoices to IFM through the COM G/L 
interface. Subsequently we will reverse the manual invoice posted earlier.

We track the inventory by creating a specific location to indicate the HUB 
of each customer, and define this location as staging when we print the 
pick list, so that Pick Confirmation will move the stock to this location 
by TW transactions.

Now, we are trying to eliminate the process of manual invoice, manual AR 
posting and reversing with an automated process within COM in MAPICS. Is 
there any one in the group encountered such requirements or any other 
suggestions to automate this process, please provide your thoughts.

Regards,

S.P. Selvaraj
Senior I.T. Specialist, Asia Pacific
Tel. Dir (65) 6586-8009, Mobile (65) 9653-4048, IP Phone 4368

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