If I understood you correctly, the receiving company is a separate legal entity, so sales between the two them in general would not violate the local regulations. Of course, you cannot sell at unrealistically low prices and transferring of free products will be always checked carefully, but this a completely different problem.
Just because you create a billing document, this does not mean that you will create a customer open item.
You mention marketing samples. For sure the people in charge of the marketing campaign/promotions planning wish to track where the products went, how much they have spent on that initiative, etc.
This means that you probably have a WBS element to track each campaign/promotion. You can use discounts for billing and still achieve the required traceability with this WBS, the other company does not pay, this can go to a different account (FI department can tell you which one is appropriate).
In some countries you pay additional taxes for giving away products with 100% discount, so you need to agree with the other company who pays for that, it could be the sending or the receiving party, not a problem.
If the receiving party is not a separate legal entity, this would be just a stock transfer between plants, so you would not have even asked the question in the SD forum. ![]()
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To avoid potential misunderstanding - posting to a specific g/l account instead of generating a customer open item is not the same as invoicing yourself and, from what I know, is not illegal - check with your legal consultant and with the Finance department.
You would post in the same or in a similar way when you send samples to a non-affiliated company.
Message was edited by: Veselina Peykova