You can use SAP Credit Management
and other integrated components in a single system landscape or a multiple system landscape. You can collect, manage, and analyze credit information from connected systems and components centrally; this architecture also enables you to distribute and use the credit information effectively in the systems and components connected.
Example
Examples of the cross-system/component information flow are:
Credit exposure update from Accounts Receivable Accounting
(FI-AR
) to SAP Credit Management
Credit check in SAP Credit Management
on creation of a sales order in Sales and Distribution
(SD
)
Update of the credit exposure in SAP Credit Management
based on data from Sales and Distribution
(SD
) and Accounts Receivable Accounting
(FI-AR
)
The data exchange is processed via XML interfaces, which means that you can connect both SAP and non-SAP systems. For a list of the interfaces used, see Service Interfaces: Overview.
The exchange of messages can be made using SAP NetWeaver Process Integration
(PI in the following) or – for all synchronous and for certain asynchronous service interfaces – direct using the Web Services Reliable Messaging
protocol as point to point connection. This option is available not just in a one system landscape but also if you are using central SAP Credit Management
in a multiple system landscape, in which there is a separate system for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
(FI-CA
) or several separate systems for Accounts Receivable Accounting
(FI-AR
).
For additional information which service interfaces allow point to point connection using the Web Services Reliable Messaging
(WS-RM) protocol, see also Service Interfaces: Overview.
Note
For more information about Web Services, see:
SAP NetWeaver Library
under
SAP NetWeaver Knowledge Center
on SAP Help Portal under
The following figure gives you an overview of the maximum connection options and data flows that the system architecture of SAP Credit Management
provides.
The following table provides an overview of all components and systems that you have to or can connect in SAP Credit Management
.
Note
You can connect either Accounts Receivable Accounting
(FI-AR
) or Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
(FI-CA
) as the SAP Financial Accounting components. For detailed information about the integration of Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
, see the documentation for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
under Integration with SAP Credit Management.
Component/System |
Minimum SAP Release |
Comments |
---|---|---|
|
|
Mandatory |
|
7.0 |
Mandatory |
|
7.0 (without WS-RM) 7.0 SP14 (with WS-RM) |
Mandatory |
|
4.6C; PlugIn 2004.1 |
Optional Caution Note that the integration for End of the caution. |
|
As of Industry Release 4.72 |
Optional Caution Note that the integration for End of the caution. |
|
4.6C; PlugIn 2004.1 |
Optional Caution Note that the integration for End of the caution. |
|
|
Optional |
|
4.0; CRM Industry AddOn Edition 2004 |
Optional: for |
|
6.0 |
Optional |
External Credit Information |
Non-SAP system |
Optional |
Financial Accounting |
Non-SAP system |
Optional |
Sales and Distribution |
Non-SAP system |
Optional |