Remuneration Clearing Agreement 

Use

The remuneration clearing agreement contains one or more remuneration clearing rule(s) for a clearing procedure. The flow of this procedure is determined by the sequence number in the remuneration clearing rule The system works through the clearing rules when commission is being determined.

General: All those agreements in which additional rules that influence the result of commission determination are agreed, referring to a commission case and/or a business object and/or a participant or partial quantities for activity-related remunerations, are grouped in the Commission System under the term remuneration clearing.

In most cases, there are offsetting or ceiling amount rules that influence the remuneration amounts for business and for general reasons. These rules are used to calculate commission once individual remunerations have been determined.

A change to the sequence leads either to a new agreement, or to a new version of the agreement.

In contrast to other agreement categories in Incentive and Commission Management, you can use a global or a standard remuneration clearing agreement (or both) in the commission case. (See below.)

Global agreements are not affected by individual or standard agreements. However, the sequence of the subprocesses “Calculating global remuneration clearing”, and “Calculating standard remuneration clearing” can be specified.

Note that from Release SAP ECC Enterprise Extension Incentive & Commission Management 6.0 (EA-ICM 600) the sequence of processing is by rule and no longer by agreement, as in previous releases.

Remuneration clearing rules that are not used for single remuneration for a certain participant cannot be agreed individually; instead they must be fixed globally. The global remuneration clearing agreement is contained in the commission system as the standard agreement with agreement category “17” (global remuneration clearing agreement). You cannot assign such an agreement as a standard commission contract element.

To avoid all global clearing rules having to be combined in an agreement, the appropriate global clearing agreement for the commission case is determined. The required combination ID is given in the business object category. If no combination ID is set for the business object category, no global clearing procedure is carried out for this category.

For more information on the changes to the remuneration clearing agreement, see the Release Note for SAP ERP Central Component 2005 in the SAP Service Marketplace under service.sap.com ® SAP Support Portal  ® Release & Upgrade Info ® Release Notes ®mySAP Solutions ®mySAP ERP ®SAP ERP 2005 ®ECC 6.0 ®Section 09: ICM Incentive and Commission Management.

Features

A remuneration clearing agreement includes the following data (key data is highlighted in boldface):

·         Number of standard remuneration clearing agreement

·         Agreement category (global or standard remuneration clearing)

·         Version number

·         Description

·         Indicator for controlling global calculation: Only with a global agreement

·         Status

During determination of the global remuneration clearing agreement, the calling process transfers data to the current commission case.

The combination ID needed for determining the global agreement is found with the business object category given in the current commission case. If no combination ID is determined, processing can be ended. If more that one combination ID is determined, the system issues a warning.

The global clearing agreement is read with the object ID determined. If no global clearing agreement is found, the system issues corresponding information. Otherwise the system returns the determined remuneration clearing agreement.

Activities

You manage remuneration clearing agreements in Customizing for Incentive and Commission Management under Basic and Master Data ® Standard Commission Contract ®Remuneration Agreements. They are subject to period management.