Component documentationIntegration with SAP Credit Management

 

SAP Credit Management enables your company to operate centralized credit management. The business systems connected (for example, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, CRM, or SD) report the commitments of business partners to SAP Credit Management using XML. SAP Credit Management consolidates these reports into a credit exposure and checks this against the current credit limit of the business partner. This means that you can manage the score, the payment behavior summary, and the credit exposure (that is, the total of all open items) of your business partners centrally.

Implementation Considerations

SAP Credit Management is part of SAP Financial Supply Chain Management. For information about SAP Credit Management, see the documentation of SAP Credit Management. For information about system configuration, see the Configuration Guide of SAP Credit Management.

You can use Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable and SAP Credit Management in a single or multiple system landscape without an XI server. This means that you can connect an instance of Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable directly with SAP Credit Management without using an XI server. Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable and SAP Credit Management can be running in the same system or in separate systems.

The prerequisite for this is as follows: You have installed enhancement package 5 for both Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable and SAP Credit Management, and you activated the business function FSCM Functions 3 (FIN_FSCM_CCD_3). Activating a business function in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable is not a requirement.

You set up the connection between SAP Credit Management and Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable by configuring the appropriate endpoints and logical ports in SOA Manager.

Message exchange takes place using Web Services Reliable Messaging (WS-RM), which guarantees the transfer of messages and monitors the correct sequence of incoming messages.

Integration

If you use SAP Credit Management, the internal processes of Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable do not use the score (creditworthiness) determined in FI-CA; instead, they automatically access the score in SAP Credit Management.

You can display the SAP Credit Management score in the transaction Display Business Partner's Creditworthiness (on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Account Next navigation step More Information Next navigation step Creditworthiness End of the navigation path).

You can influence the program flows in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable at certain events. For more information, see the configuration guide for SAP Credit Management, in particular the sections for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Business Customizing Next navigation step Process Integration with SAP Systems End of the navigation path.

Features

The open items of business partners are managed in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable; the credit decisions take place in SAP Credit Management. To ensure credit decisions are based on a current dataset, you therefore have to transfer the credit exposure - the total of the open items - to SAP Credit Management at regular intervals.

In the credit exposure update from Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, the total of all current open items for the business partner is always transferred to SAP Credit Management. It is not a delta update.

In FI-CA there are mass activities for the following functions:

  • Sending the credit exposure for a business partner to SAP Credit Management

  • Sending the payment behavior summary to SAP Credit Management

  • Replicating the creditworthiness values between Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable and SAP Credit Management

Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable supports the credit exposure queries of SAP Credit Management. In SAP Credit Management, you can specify whether the current credit exposure is queried in the connected systems for a credit check.

Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable supports the partner messages of SAP Credit Management. Partner messages enable the credit exposure to be updated in SAP Credit Management for a business transaction across module and system boundaries, with no chronological gaps.

You can display the credit information from SAP Credit Management in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, for example, to display it in the Interaction Center. Function module FKK_CR_GET_CREDIT_INFORMATION uses the XI interface CreditWorthinessQuery.

In Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, you can also carry out a credit check for a business partner in SAP Credit Management.