Cash Management

Purpose

This component enables you to update data in Cash Management (TR-CM).

Features

This update is made directly when you post a document in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. This means that the Cash Management liquidity forecast and cash position are always up-to-date.

In the contract account master record, you can enter the following data for updating the liquidity forecast:

  • Planning group

    This way, contract accounts with collection authorization can be considered separately from contract accounts to be paid on demand. The system proposes the planning group when you enter a document.

  • Additional days

    These days are considered when determining the expected cash receipt date. The due date for net payment or the cash discount date (if cash discount was agreed) is used as the baseline date for this.

Line items that are locked for payment can be assigned to an alternative planning group automatically.

In the G/L account master record, you define a planning level for G/L accounts that require the cash position to be updated. The system determines the planning level when you post the document and enters it in the G/L item.

For mass postings that run in parallel processes, waiting time may occur due to competing accesses during the update of data for Cash Management. For these postings, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable offers a parallel update mode that you can activate for specific categories of mass runs in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Technical Settings Next navigation step Activate Parallel Update of Cash Management End of the navigation path. Cash Management is then updated at the end of each process. If the process is terminated before the Cash Management update, the update takes place when you close the relevant reconciliation key. If the update also fails here, you can transfer the data recorded separately individually. To do this, in the SAP menu choose Start of the navigation path Periodic Processing Next navigation step Execution Next navigation step Cash Management Transfer End of the navigation path.

Utilities (IS-U)

The system automatically determines the planning group in the contract account when you transfer billing documents and then saves it in the corresponding line items.

Insurance (FS-CD)

The system automatically determines the planning group in the contract account during the debit entry and then saves it in the corresponding line items.