Administration 

The following sections contain information on the technical realization of the commission system:

Creating a Commission Application

Overview of the creation of a commission application, its construction and generation, as well as the Customizing for the application design.

Administration of Master Data

Overview of the standard commission contract as a contract template and the use of commission contract types to differentiate between contracts. The commission activity supplies information on changes to business transactions, which are determined by commission activity types (such as a new business). Here you will find information on participation, the valuation of a commission case, liability, remuneration clearing, determination and how to adapt the standard commission contract to an agent without a commission contract.

Process Administration

Here you will find information on the basic settings required for closing operations and settlement, how to determine period rules and carry out periodic tasks. You also find out how to transfer settlement data to Payroll (HR-PY), Financial Accounting (FI-AP/FI-AR) and Collections/Disbursements (FS-CD) and which settings are required to settle an agent without a commission contract. Information on how to improve the performance of ICM is also given here.

Information System Administration

Here you find out how to use drilldown reporting and the correspondence function in ICM, and the settings that you need to make.

Tools

Information on how the following tools are implemented in ICM: Logical Services, interfaces and data transfer, copying period-managed data, archiving SET/GET parameter IDs, application measurement and the fulfillment level tool.

Security Guide

Information on how to fulfill your security requirements in ICM. Information on the authorization concept, user administration and user authentication.

Period and Version Management

Information on period and version management.