Forward Orders 
Definition
Business object in the Account Management (FS-AM) system. A forward order is a payment order that is not executed immediately, but in the future on a certain execution date. For more information about payment orders, see the Payment Orders section in the SAP Library.
Structure
The structure description for forward orders is divided into methods and customer enhancements.
Methods
In Account Management (FS-AM), you can use one of the following channels for processing objects:
· Dialog
· Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI)
The following overview shows which forward order methods you can call up via which channel:
Method |
Channel |
||
Dialog |
BAPI |
DI |
|
Create forward order |
x |
x |
|
Display forward order (BAPI: Get data only) |
x |
(x) |
|
Change forward order |
x |
x |
|
Delete forward order |
x |
x |
|
Post forward order before execution date |
x |
x |
|
Display list of forward orders per account |
x1 |
x2 |
|
These methods can change the status and release status of the forward order. See Status and Release Status of Forward Orders.
Dialog
You can call up the following transactions in dialog mode:
Transaction Code |
Short Description |
BCA_PO_FO_CREATE |
|
BCA_PO_FO_CHANGE |
|
BCA_PO_FO_DISPLAY |
|
BCA_PO_FO_DELETE |
|
BCA_PO_FO_POST |
Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI)
You can call up the following methods using the BAPI Explorer:
Method* |
Short Description |
ForwardOrder.Change |
Change forward order |
ForwardOrder.Create |
Create forward order |
ForwardOrder.Delete |
Delete forward order |
ForwardOrder.GetDetail |
Read forward order |
ForwardOrder.GetListByAccount |
Display list of forward orders |
ForwardOrder.Post |
Post forward order before execution date |
* The first two methods and the last method are write methods. You can also execute these in a simulation run.
Direct Input
Direct input is not implemented for forward orders. However, you can migrate forward orders via BAPI. For more information, see the Account Management (FS-AM) Implementation Guide and choose Technical Documentation for Account Management (FS-AM) ® Concepts and Guidelines ® Migration ® Migration Objects ® Forward Order.
Customer Enhancements
You can find the Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) that are available to you for forward orders in the Customizing for Account Management (FS-AM) by choosing Order Management ® Forward Order ® Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) ® General BAdIs and BAdIs for BAPIs.
Integration
Customizing
You make the settings for forward orders in the Customizing for Account Management (FS-AM) by choosing Order Management ® Payment Order in the following IMG activities:
· Assign Offsetting Transaction Types (Payment Order – Online)
· Assign Offsetting Transaction Types (Internal Processes)
· Edit Display of Change Documents
· Set Recipient Account Identification / Additional Fields
· Create Customer Fields
· Assign Transaction Types and Medium / Payment Method to a Payment Directive Type
If you create correspondence and want to levy charges for this, you must also make the following settings: In the Account Management (FS-AM) Implementation Guide choose Order Management ® Payment Order ® Correspondence:
· Create Charge Key
· Assign Charge Key to Transaction Type
· Create Payment Notes Text for Correspondence Charges
You make additional settings in the Customizing for Account Management (FS-AM) by choosing Order Management ® Forward Order:
· Define Maximum Number of Days Before Execution Date
· Assign Transaction Types
¡ Assign Transaction Types (Online)
¡ Assign Transaction Types (Internal Processes)
¡ Activate Default for Activity Charges
If you wish to use the release functions, you must also make the following settings:
· Assign Release Procedure to Release Object
· Assign Rules to Release Steps
· Assign Release WF and Release Procedure WF to Release Procedures.
· Define Rejection Reasons
You must also make the settings for the payment item object in the Customizing for Account Management (FS AM).
Checks Run by the System
· Authorization Check
Depending on the transaction types of the forward order, you can have the system run an authorization check for the following activities: Create, change, display, delete forward order and also post forward order before execution date. The check of the respective activity is also dependent on the ordering party transaction type of the forward order.
In addition to this authorization check, using the SAP authorization object for forward orders you can make your own authorization checks. Business Add-In BAdI: Definition of the Authorization Check is available for this in the Account Management (FS-AM) Customizing settings. Choose Order Management ® Forward Order ® Business Add-Ins. For more information about authorizations, see the Authorization Administration section of the SAP Library.
· Release Check
The system also runs checks for the relevance for release. This means it checks whether a forward order is forwarded to the release workflow on the basis of the specific characteristic value of its release attributes.
If the system identifies a forward order as being subject to release, it forwards it to the release workflow. A user authorized for release must release forward orders that are subject to release before they are processed further. For more information, see the Release Object FOOR (Forward Order) section in the SAP Library.
· Checks for Posting a Forward Order
When you post a forward order, this becomes a payment order. For this reason, the system makes the relevant payment order checks when posting it. For more information, see the Forward Orders section in the SAP Library.
Objects Derived or Generated by the System
Payment Order
When posting a forward order, the system converts it to a payment order.
Payment Transaction Area
When you enter a forward order, the system derives the relevant payment transaction area from the bank details of the order initiator. Exactly one payment transaction area is assigned to each bank-specific bank key. The payment transaction area depicts the organizational responsibilities for payment transactions within a bank in the Account Management system.
You create payment transaction areas in the Customizing for Account Management (FS-AM) by choosing Basic Settings ®Organization ® Define Payment Transaction Areas. You must also make the required entries under Basic Settings ® Organization ® Assign Bank Key to a Payment Transaction Area.
Forward Order Number
The system uses the payment transaction area to derive a forward order number from the corresponding number range. You create number ranges in the Customizing for Account Management (FS-AM) by choosing Basic Settings ®Organization ® Define Number Range Intervals for Payment Transaction Areas. A forward order in the Account Management system is clearly and unmistakably identified by the payment transaction area and the forward order number.
As soon as a forward order is executed, the forward order number is the same as the payment order number.
Change Document
The system generates a change document. All changes you make to forward order data are logged in change documents. You can call these up in all transactions of the forward order except for Create Forward Order by choosing Extras ® Change Documents, or with the corresponding pushbutton
You can configure
the display of the change documents in the Customizing for Account
Management (FS-AM) by choosing Define Display of Change Documents.
For more information about change documents, see the 
Change Documents
section in the SAP Library.
Correspondence Request
The system creates correspondence requests for the following correspondence types:
·
Confirmation of
Creation, Change and Deletion
The system creates a
confirmation if you set this for individual or all forward orders, either
directly in the respective dialog of the forward order (create, change,
delete) on the Ordering Party Details tab page, or in the
Account Management (FS-AM) Customizing settings by choosing Order
Management ®
Payment Order
®
Correspondence
®
Assign Charge Key to Transaction Type. BAdI: Creation Control for Confirmation of Execution is
available to you in the Customizing for
Account Management (FS-AM) for the data to be included in this
correspondence. ChooseOrder Management
® Payment Order
® Business
Add-Ins. In the standard system delivered, this contains the connection
to the correspondence tool. For more information about correspondence in
Account Management, see the SAP Library under: Correspondence in
Account Management.
For information about printing correspondence and calculating charges, see the Confirmation of Execution section.
· Confirmation of Execution
The system creates a confirmation if you set this for individual or all forward orders, either directly in the forward order on the Ordering Party Details tab page, or in the Customizing for Account Management (FS-AM) by choosing Order Management ® Payment Order ®Correspondence ®Assign Charge Key to Transaction Type. BAdI: Creation Control for Confirmation of Execution is available to you in the Customizing for Account Management (FS-AM) for the data you want included in this confirmation. Choose Order Management ® Payment Order ® Business Add-Ins. In the standard system delivered, this contains the connection to the correspondence tool. For more information about correspondence in the Account Management system, see the SAP Library under: Correspondence in Account Management.
If you wish to create and issue a confirmation of execution, you must have made the required Customizing settings for the correspondence tool and the Print Workbench.
If you do not wish to create correspondence for editing a forward order as an exception, the No Correspondence (One-Off) indicator is available to you in all channels.
Direct Charge for Activity
The system creates this if you set this for individual or all forward orders, either directly in the respective dialog of the forward order (create, change, delete andpost) on the Ordering Party Details tab page, or in the Customizing for Account Management (FS-AM) by choosing Order Management ® Forward Order ® Assign Transaction Types ® Define Default for Activity Charges.
You can have a
standard or individual charge calculated as a direct charge for the activity.
To do this, you must create the relevant standard conditions from the SAP
Easy Access screen by choosing Account Management ® Current Settings ® Financial Conditions ® Condition Group ® Create Condition Group or set the relevant individual conditions on
the Financial Conditions tab page for the account concerned. For more
information about this procedure, see sections Editing Condition
Groups and Editing Financial
Conditions.
You must also make the following Customizing settings for the calculation of charges.
¡ Product Management ® Financial Conditions ® Define Condition Type
¡ Order Management ® Payment Order ® Correspondence ® Create Charge Key
¡ Order Management ® Payment Order ® Correspondence ® Assign Charge Key to Transaction Type
For more information, see the financial conditions section of the SAP Library and the documentation for the relevant IMG activity.
If you have preset the indicator for the post activity for a transaction type in the Customizing for Account Management (FS-AM) by choosing Order Management ® Forward Order ® Assign Transaction Types ® Define Default Activity Charges, the system calculates a direct charge both in the dialog transaction Post Forward Order and when the forward order is executed in the context of end-of-day processing. However, you have the option of controlling the actual charge posting via the setting of the financial conditions. These are differentiated according to the respective activity. In the Post Forward Order dialog, you use the post (10) activity, for execution in the context of end-of-day processing the activity is execute (16)
Charge for Correspondence and Editing Forward Orders
If you generally want to have charges levied for the creation of correspondence and/or for creating, changing and deleting forward orders, from the SAP Easy Access screen you must have chosen Account Management (FS-AM) ® Current Settings ® Financial Conditions ® Condition Group ® Edit Condition Group and created appropriate standard conditions or have set appropriate individual conditions for the account in question on the Financial Conditions tab page. For more information about this procedure, see the Create Condition Group and Financial Conditions sections.
You must also have made the following Customizing settings for the calculation of charges.
· Product Management ® Financial Conditions ® Define Condition Type
· Order Management ® Payment Order ® Correspondence ® Create Charge Key
· Order Management ® Payment Order ® Correspondence ® Assign Charge Key to Transaction Type
For more
information, see the Financial
Conditions section in the SAP Library, and the documentation
for the corresponding IMG activities.
If you do not wish to have charges levied for the current editing and/or correspondence for a forward order as an exception, the No Correspondence and Transaction Charges (One-Off) indicator is available to you in all channels.
You store the formulation of the payment note text explaining the charge in the correspondence in the Customizing for Account Management (FS-AM) by choosing
Order Management ® Payment Order ® Correspondence ® Create Payment Note Text for Correspondence Charges.
Work Item
The system generates a work item for the release process, if required on the basis of the Customizing settings. For more information, see the Release Object FOOR (Forward Order) section in the SAP Library.
Payment Item
When executed, the forward order becomes a payment order. The system generates a payment item for the ordering party, and one or more payment items, if applicable, for the recipient items.
Event-Controlled Bank Statement
The system creates this if a forward order is not executed, provided the prerequisites for creation of a confirmation of non-execution are met and if you have made the Customizing settings for bank statements and the following Account Management (FS-AM) Customizing settings:
· Item Management ® Basic Functions ® Define Rejection Reasons
· Order Management ® Payment Order ® Select Trigger for Event-Controlled Bank Statement