Payments

During clarification of incoming payments from payment lots, the system shows whether a clarification note was created for the clarification case in question. For this information to be displayed, you have to configure the layout accordingly.

Mass Change of Documents

During the mass change of documents, you can enter the new values for the document items to be changed in a separate single-column table (see Mass Change of Documents).

Tax Calculation

You can deactivate optimized calculation of tax amounts in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (see Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under  Basic Functions Postings and Documents Basic Settings Maintain Central Settings for Posting ).

External Tax Calculation Systems

When connecting external tax calculation systems, you can do the following:

For more information, see Calculation of Taxes by an External Tax System, Parallel Update of External Tax Systems and Changes During Productive Use.

Outbound Interface for Postings to the Business Partner

In the outbound interface for postings to the business partner, you can use the data storage for trigger entries (see Outbound Interface for Postings to Business Partner).

Integration with Sales and Distribution

You can integrate Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable with Sales and Distribution even if you are running both components in distributed systems (see Sales and Distribution.

Integration with General Ledger Accounting

As part of the integration with the new general ledger, you can add the new account assignments business area, segment and profit center to both new documents and those that have already been posted. To do so, use a prepared enhancement to include a second record to these account assignment fields in the business partner items (see Changes During Productive Use).

Business Process Exception Management (BPEM)

In Enhanced Message Management, you can define your own names for solution processes in clarification cases (see Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under  Basic Functions Enhanced Message Management Specifications for Generating Clarification Cases Enter Texts for Solution Processes ).

Archiving

You can archive payment data from payment runs and security deposits and delete other objects.

Integration with SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management means you can use ILM residence rules to manage archived rules. As a result of the archived data being stored in specified retention periods, destruction of the data in accordance with legal requirements is possible (see Integration with SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management.

Foreign Trade Declarations

When creating foreign trade declarations, you can prepare reporting data in accordance with national regulations, and store the data in a local file that you can transfer to the responsible authority (see Foreign Trade Declarations).

Selection by Contract

Select write-off histories, collection items, payments, returns histories and doubtful and adjusted receivables by contract (see Changes During Productive Use).

Processing Locks

You can record information about processing locks in a comment (see Changes During Productive Use).

When evaluating business locks in the SAP menu under  Periodic Processing For Contract Accounts Processing Locks Evaluation , you can only select and display locks for open documents.

Requests

In requests and FI-CA documents, you can specify special periods to which the system posts during the subsequrent transfer to general ledger accounting (see Posting to Special Periods and Processing Requests).

New Functions as of SAP Enhancement Package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0 SP02

As of SP02, the following functions are available to you with this business function:

For more information, see the corresponding functional release notes using the links in the release note for the business function ISU_CA_3.

SAP HANA (as of SP02)

If you are using SAP HANA as a database system, you can display the last objects changed in the initial menu for the display and change transactions for the following objects:

You can also improve the performance of numerous processes in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable by optimizing the database accesses (see In-Memory Computing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable).

Side Panel (as of SP02)

You can display context-sensitive additional information about existing SAP GUI applications in separate screen areas in numerous transactions in the side panel.

New Functions as of SAP Enhancement Package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0 SP03

Expiring Currencies (as of SP03)

In the Functions Available for Displaying and Changing Documents and in the account balance (see Working with the Account Balance), you can display transaction currency amounts for document items in the new currency if an expiring currency is involved.