Now in the Invoice “Payable to supplier” will be showing as “-$100.00 USD”.

Technically we need to post Negative Invoice in Ariba-Inv Pro like changing qty or price with negative value once it pulls data based on PO#. Once PO and GR are integrated to Ariba Invoice pro as expected then we need to do a small tweak while posting Invoice (credit memo).

Note: Even we are maintaining parameter for 161 Mov-Type as return in ECC as Ariba Invoice management isn’t supporting return functionality fully so it will show as Rejected in Ariba which means inventory sent to Vendor. In “/ARBA/PARAM_TAB” an Ariba table for configurable parameters, we need to maintain 161-Movement Type as RETURN_MVT to integrate this GI to Ariba Invoice Pro. We need to do minor enhancement in ECC for Vendor returns movement to integrate with Ariba as Rejected Qty like below to match ECC 161 GI to Vendor. The Return-PO will be integrated with Ariba-Invoice Pro as a normal PO, and it won’t handle the return-PO field (EKPO-RETPO). Work around process & Minor enhancement in ECC And customers are forced to handle this scenario out of Ariba Invoice pro or by different payment method to get credit from vendors for these return items. Only direct credit memo is supported for Non-PO Scenarios. In Ariba Invoice Pro Return-PO (Vendor Return Process) and direct Credit Memo for PO Invoices is not supported. GR returns can be done by 161 Movement type and Direct Credit Memo can be done in ECC.

In ECC this scenario is handled by most of the customers by Vendor Return PO in which return indicator is checked in the PO and net value will be negative. They will ship to vendor when sufficient numbers of those to fit for their normal truck/wagon load by a separate Vendor return PO process. In normal process the customer will gather these empty special containers or totes after consuming the material in it. Normally in some Chemical and Process industries materials are purchased with reusable containers or IBC totes which have unit price and can be refunded from vendors when those are returned to Vendor. Work around for handling Return-PO Credit Memo in Ariba Invoice Pro to ECC

Ariba p2p process