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billing date, and country of destination. Conversely, one delivery can result in
multiple invoices. This is the case when the terms of payment for the items
in the delivery are different. In these cases, a different billing document must
be created for each term of payment. Note that when deliveries are combined,
the partner function payer is relevant, not who placed the order (sold-to party)
or who received the shipment (ship-to party).
Referring back to our RMB example, GBI has two options for billing: It
can send an invoice after each shipment is sent, or it can wait until both ship-
ments are sent and then prepare one cumulative invoice. GBI has elected to
send separate invoices for each shipment.
Figure 5-41 illustrates the structure of a billing document (left side).
The billing document header consists of the partner identifi cation such as the
sold-to party and payer, billing date, document currency, payment terms, and
the total. Each billing document item includes data such as material num-
ber, quantity, and price. The fi gure also illustrates some of the data that are
included in the billing document generated by GBI for the initial shipment
(30 bikes and 100 t-shirts). GBI will subsequently generate another billing
document for the remaining 10 bikes.

Figure 5-41: Structure of a billing document

Outcomes
Like shipping, billing has several outcomes related to accounting, creating doc-
uments, and updating master data and documents. These impacts are presented
in Figure 5-42.

Figure 5-42: Outcomes of the billing step

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