Plant Abroad

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Scenarios
  1. Customer invoice ( ~ This customer sales order in created in Belgium company code( 1200) with the French plant( 1202). The tax departure country is modified to “FR-France” in the sales order)
    • The organization may be selling to consumers (B2C) in other EU countries. If they sell goods and send them to consumers in another EU country, they need to register there and charge VAT at the rate applicable in that country.
  2. Plant abroad invoice within EU Stock transfers between foreign plant (warehouse in Maribor) and domestic plant (warehouse in GERMANY). Two VAT registered entity,
    • a GERMAN company needs to report VAT (Intra-community acquisition of goods and reverse charge) and trade statistics (Intrastat and Sales Reporting). 
    • Plants abroad invoice capture the trade statistics and VAT for German Company – both AR (Maribor Plant) and AP (German Company).
  3. Plant abroad invoice outside EU
  4. Intra-stat reporting
Recommendation from SAP: You should only use this function if you have several warehouses, distribution centers, or plants abroad.

About functionality:
  • This functionality helps to assign plants from different countries to one company code without a need of having sales organizations in the countries where plants are located and the company needs to have VAT registration numbers in those countries where it is obligated to file VAT returns/European Sales Listings/Intrastat returns.
  • Activation ensures that the VAT registration number correctly gets printed on documents like sales, purchases, invoices, correct VAT registration numbers being used for the right tax calculation, stock transfers between plants get captured for Intrastat reporting correctly.
  • Creation Plant Abroad Invoice (Document type WIA) for stock transfers between foreign plant and domestic plant.
Configuring Plants Abroad Functionality
  • Financial accounting – Financial accounting global settings – Tax on sales and purchases – Basic settings – Plants abroad 
  • Financial accounting – Financial accounting global settings – Tax on sales and purchases – Basic settings – Plants abroad – Enter VAT registration number for plants abroad
    • New field “Country Currency” and “Exchange Rate” will be available in Set Country Global Parameters configuration.
  • Create tax codes in FTXP, where field “reporting country” in the properties of the new tax code is updated. 
  • Related OSS Notes for in-depth configuration:
    • 1085758: Customizing for stock transports , 
    • 850566: deactivate plants abroad for a particular company code. 
    • Tax determination for plant abroad :- 10560.
  • When a company has a foreign VAT registration number in another country, it needs also to file Intrastat returns, Intrastat ID numbers needs to set up in transaction OBY6 – click on additional details.
Plants abroad: Sales-specific settings
  • The standard delivered condition types in 'plants abroad' functionality are WIA1, WIA2, WIA3.
  • The standard pricing procedure having condition types WIA1, WIA2, WIA3 is RVWIA1.
With the plants abroad functionality, it is possible to assign tax procedures for the company code and tax procedures for the countries of plants assigned to this company code. 


Detailed information is in SAP notes 63103 - Plants abroad (tax procedure) and 51361 - Plants abroad

Billing type for determining taxes for plants that are abroad defined – WIA(Standard type), The standard system contains default order type WIA which is assigned to delivery types LF (consignment fill-up), LR (consignment pick-up), and NL (replenishment), and proposes billing type WIA.

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