We are multi company and our finance department is asking to have intercompany invoices automatically create as AP invoices in the other company and post. Is this possible and what would be the best approach?
Thank you in advance!
If you have the multi-company set up properly, it happens automatically. As soon as the AR invoice is posted in the seller company and the multi-company process runs, an AP group is created automatically in the buyer company with the correspondent AP invoices (doesn’t post them though, you’ll have to do that manually).
I’ve managed to do this with shipment Invoices, but not able to do it with Miscellaneous Invoices. Is is possible with Misc Invoice or am I missing something?
Intercompany invoicing does not work without a receipt. So miscellaneous invoices and credit memos get stuck in the process. It’s a bug that they get transmitted through the multi company process, but it’s never been fixed.
We also discovered this after a long investigation process with support this week.
We had so many requests transmitted through the multi company direct server process but Finance could never figure out why the AP invoice in the receiving company never generated. Hundreds of rows in the integrated table workbench just stuck there.
Turns out, if the sending company posts the AR invoice before the Intercompany receipt has been processed, no AP invoice ever gets created in the receiving company.
Apparently not a bug and working as designed. Just poorly designed. Whoever set this rule clearly thought that it was one person doing every task.
I dont think they considered:
- Companies will have different finance teams/personnel working on each company
- Goods can be in transit. You cannot expect the sending company to wait until a receipt has happened in a different company to post their AR invoice. What if the receiving company was half-way across the world. Different time zones. Language barriers etc.
I submitted an idea to get this changed.
KIN-I-5970
Doesn’t work with misc. invoices as you need global parts, same class/group in both companies, same tax, etc.
You will see these errors in the multicompany logs as well as in the Integrated Table Workbench. I check those 2 daily.
We don’t have this issue. If it’s a regular invoice with an expected receipt, the AP invoice group gets gets created upon the receipt. Those AR invoices were posted at least a week before we do that receipt.
Interesting! Are you running Multi Company Direct Server process manually after the receipt has been processed?
The process runs every 10 minutes for us for all companies.