1961732 - ME2DP: Why is it not possible to enter DP amount

including Tax?
Symptom

You have activated the Business Function (BF) LOG_MMFI_P2P to use the "Down
Payment Monitoring for PO" functionality in Purchasing documents (Purchase
Orders (POs), Invoicing, etc).

In ME2DP (the new transaction added with the BF) you are not able to enter a
Downpayment (BF) value that includes tax also (at header as well as at item level).

You can only enter up to the value of the net price, error MEPO 135 - 'Down
payment must be at least 0 and not more than 100%' is issued.

Environment

 Materials Management (MM)

 SAP ERP Central Component
 SAP ERP
 SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP
 SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA
 SAP S/4HANA
 SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Reproducing the Issue

1. Transaction: ME2DP (Downpayment).

2. Enter downpayment value with tax also (so, for tax at 5%, and value is 100,
enter 105).
3. Error MEPO 135 - 'Down payment must be at least 0 and not more than
100%' is issued.

Cause

As part of SAP standard design, the system only allows to create DP request for the
net value of the PO (tax values are *not* considered).

Resolution

For higher amounts / unpfront payments, or deposits, SAP provides the functionality
of prepayment. You will find more detailed information in SAP Library

Additionally, if it is a requirement to add over and above 100% of the Net Value
(without tax added), you can add Note 2300311, which will allow you to
exceed 100% of Net Value in a payment, (so MEPO 135 will not be triggered for net
values exceeding 100%) but please note that Taxes cannot be added also in this
way, only payments against the Net Value is considered.
The logic for this additional flexibility in the downpayment / payment / prepayment
that the Note gives is that it is not forbidden to create a down payment (ME2DP) with
a higher value as the PO value.

(In some cases it may be required to include prepayment of freight costs or taxes, as
an example. Additionally, it is possible to enter a higher value during invoice
verification in the system, for such scenarios)

However, please note that in the ME2DP transaction itself, the tax and freight
are not captured in the payment screen, it calculates the total percentage on Net
Value only.

See Also

You will also find more detailed information in the SAP Library (link here)

2300311 - ME22N: Error MEPO135 when changing PO with down payment

1622433 - FAQ: Down payment clearing as of Release ERP 6.0 EhP4

2448937 - ME2DP is not working on S/4 HANA

Keywords

ME2DP, Purchase Order, Down Payment