This component permits one-time or periodic settlement accounting with regard to conditions governing cumulative, end-of-period rebates.

If you use the Agency Business component, you can use these functions in purchasing both to settle accounts with vendors and with customers.

If, for example, you agree with your vendor or customer that certain conditions will not be paid with the invoice but – as long as a certain volume is reached upon which you have agreed – not until the end of the agreed time, then you can create the agreement in the system. The system automatically updates the relevant business volumes. Settlement with regard to such conditions takes place at predefined points in time.

You use this component if you and your vendors or customers agree to conditions of purchase that require subsequent (end-of-period rebate) settlement.

• The system automatically updates the business volume for the goods for the corporate unit involved when you save the documents.

• You can still enter rebate arrangements after business volumes have already been recorded. In this case, the relevant business volumes are determined and updated retrospectively.

• At the end of the validity period of a rebate arrangement, or at the end of the agreed period, the system calculates the rebates payable with regard to conditions that are due for settlement and creates a settlement list. Depending on the settlement type, the system either automatically creates a vendor billing document or a sales invoice.

• Interim settlement is possible at any time for both rebate arrangements requiring one-time settlement and those requiring periodic settlement.

• If the results of your cumulative business volume update differ from those of your business partner, you can compare and reconcile the two sets of figures and carry out settlement accounting on the basis of an agreed value.

Conditions due for settlement immediately are settled as soon as invoices are received, or once payment has been made. These are therefore not discussed here.

You can process business volume data from customer billing documents using the SD volume-based rebate.

To improve performance in application components other than SAP Retail that the subsequent settlement accesses, you can make global settings for each client in Customizing for subsequent settlement:

• You can switch off the entire subsequent settlement.
• You can switch off individual checks for the updating of business volume and archiving.