In Japan, and mainly in the automotive sector, it is a common practice to create customer invoices where the date of the last shipment is used as the invoice, tax point, and posting date.

You can enable this functionality by selecting the Delivery Based Invoicing field in Sales Order Accounting Control (36.9.6). When you select this field, customer invoices are created with the last shipment date used as the invoice, posting, and tax point date. The shipment date is used for the Posting, Invoice, and Tax Point dates in Customer Invoice and Journal Entry.

When this functionality is enabled, the GL effective date is disabled in the following menus: