Message SAP BIL017 - Secondary installation &1: No billing doc. available from installation &2

Diagnosis
Secondary installation &v1& does not have a matching billing documentfor secondary installation &v2&.
Background:
You bill the primary installation in an installationgroup. The primary installation requires data from secondaryinstallations and therefore simulates billing for the secondaryinstallations. You defined the secondary installation &v2& as thehigher-level installation for the secondaryinstallation &v1&. A variant program interprets this hierarcha as a
serial switching. The consumption at secondary installation &v1& mustbe deducted from the consumption at secondary installation &v2&. Thedifference is calculated at billing document level. That is, theconsumption from the simulated billing document for installation &v1& isto be deducted from the consumption from a billing document forinstallation &v2&.
The billing period begins on &v3& andends on &v4& in the billing document for secondaryinstallation &v1&. However, the system was unable to find a suitablebilling document for installation &v2& for this period.
Possible reasons for this error:

  • There is no contract in this period for secondary installation &v2&.
  • This is not allowed if there is still a contract for the higher-levelsecondary installation.
    • However, the two installations have different

    • installation roles with different forms ofdata exchange from the secondary installationto the primary installation. The consumption for secondaryinstallation &v1& is entered in an input operand but not the consumptionfor secondary installation &v2&.

      Procedure
      Specify a contract or align data exchange accordingly for theinstallation roles.