Maintain Payment Program Parameters

Maintain Payment Program Parameters

You need to identify a payment run with a name. Then you have to determine the company codes and vendors for which you want to trigger the payment program. The date of the next payment run is also important for deciding whether to pay with cash discount or to pay net. Once this has been done, a payment proposal list can be automatically generated according to the terms of payment in the documents.

Select in the SAP R/3 System screen Accounting ® Financial accounting ® Accounts payable.
On the Accounts payable screen, select Periodic processing ® Payments.
Make the following entries on the Automatic Payment Transactions : Status screen:

Field	Europe	North America
Run date	Today’s date + 10 days	Today’s date + 10 days
Identification	Any 5-character identifier	Any 5-character identifier

Select Enter.

The status of your payment run is No parameters entered as yet.

Select Parameters.

On the Automatic Payment Transactions: Parameter screen, enter the following data:

Field	Europe	North America
Company code	1000	3000
Pmnt meths	SU (S=Check, U=Transfer)	C (Check)
Next posting date	Today’s date + 30 days	Today’s date + 30 days
Vendor (from/to)	1000-1005	3000-3725

If more than one person has been working with this vendor, more items may be selected in the payment proposal list in addition to those seen in the previous transaction.

The system checks the due dates of all items for the vendors you selected for payment processing. With reference to the date of the next payment run, the system decides which items are to be paid so that no discount is lost.

Select Additional log. (This is used to evaluate the payment run.)

Mark Due date check, Payment method selection in all cases and Line items of the payment documents. Enter the following vendor interval:

Field	Europe	North America
Vendors (from/to)	1000-1005	3000-3725

Select Enter.

Save your entries.

Select Status.

On the Automatic Payment Transactions: Status screen, the status is now Parameters have been entered.

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