Reviewing and Releasing Blocked Documents

To ensure quick and effective processing of blocked documents, the SAP standard system offers your credit personnel a working environment that can be tailored to your own needs.

Credit personnel can call and process overview lists of the blocked orders and deliveries. For checking purposes, you can also display released documents.

Note Note

If you are using SAP Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR) then you can also process the documents - as an alternative to local processing in the Sales and Distribution (SD) system – in the SAP Credit Management system. For additional information, see the section Special Features when Using SAP Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR).

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Features

Selection

You can use the following criteria to search for documents:

Credit control area
Next shipping date
Credit account
Risk category

Standard Variants

The standard provides different report variants for credit personnel to process sales documents:

Report Variants

Function	Program Name	Menu Path
Processing Blocked Sales and Distribution Documents	`RVKRED02`	Logistics Sales and Distribution Credit Management Exceptions Blocked Sales and Distribution Documents
Processing Released Sales and Distribution Documents	`RVKRED03`	Logistics Sales and Distribution Credit Management Sales and Distribution Documents Released
Processing All Sales and Distribution Documents	`RVKRED01`	Logistics Sales and Distribution Credit Management Sales and Distribution Documents All

Output

You receive a list of all documents that meet your selected criteria and that you are authorized to process. You can sort this list by specific criteria and set up the way in which it is displayed.

Activities

In the output list, you can review the credit situation of any customer and in line with the credit policy, decide how to continue processing the sales and distribution documents.

You have the following options:

Grant the credit and release the sales and distribution document
Reject the credit and cancel the sales and distribution document
Forward the blocked sales and distribution document to another processor
Recheck the blocked sales and distribution document
Reassign the blocked sales and distribution document and specify a new sequence of blocked sales and distribution documents. This enables you to give priority to and release several documents with a low document value until their credit limit is completely used up, instead doing so for a single document with a high document value that has already exceeded its credit limit.

Once you have carried out a particular task (for example, releasing a document), the system displays a processing status in the column to the left of your list.

In the output list, the following functions are possible:

Go to information relevant for credit, for example, credit control data, credit master record
Process the document

Note

You can prevent changes from being made to a blocked sales and distribution document until it has been released from the credit viewpoint. To do this, maintain message 134 in Customizing of Sales and Distribution under Sales Sales and Distribution Documents Define Variable Messages . In the Type field, choose "Error". In this case, you cannot make changes from the list.

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Special Features When Using SAP Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR)

When you use SAP Credit Management, pay attention to the following special features:

The output list additionally displays the status of the credit check from SAP Credit Management (field CMPS_CM).
The fields filled with credit-relevant master data from FI/SD Credit Management are hidden in the output list.
Credit-relevant master data maintained in the connected FSCM system (for example, risk category) is displayed but cannot be changed in the ERP system.

Note Note

You can also process documents – as an alternative to local processing in the Sales and Distribution (SD) system – in the SAP Credit Management system. However, the range of functions differs in some aspects. The prerequisite for processing in SAP Credit Management is that the system has created a documented credit decision. From the documented decision you can decide how the sales and distribution document is to be processed further. You have the following options:

Recheck the blocked sales and distribution document
Grant the credit and release the sales and distribution document
Reject the credit and cancel the sales and distribution document

Processing in SAP Credit Management has the advantage that you can process documents from various sales and distribution systems centrally. For more information, see Documented Credit Decision.

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For more information about SAP Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR), see SAP Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR).