Blocking Activities with Business Partners
Blocking Activities with Business Partners
Use
There can be many reasons for blocking certain activities with business partners, for example:
Features
To block activities with business partners you can use different blocks, such as:
Prevents all payments, for example, prevents payment of credit memos and rebates to a customer because of outstanding debts. You define blocking keys to specify the blocking reason and the desired reaction of the system to the block.
For information on how to proceed, see
Prevents all postings to the customer or vendor account, for example, before you flag a master record for deletion.
For information on how to proceed, see
You define blocking keys to specify the blocking reason and the desired reaction of the system to the block. There are three types of sales and distribution block:
Prevents order type "credit memo request"
Stops all deliveries to a customer
Prevents billing documents being created with incomplete prices
For information on how to proceed, see Setting a Posting, Sales and Distribution, or Purchasing Block.
Blocks purchase orders placed with the vendor, purchase requisitions involving the vendor, and allocation tables that involve purchase orders being placed with the vendor
For information on how to proceed, see the following:
For information on how to proceed, see Setting a Block for Quality Reasons.
Prerequisites
Payment blocks only affect manual payments if the blocking key has been assigned the corresponding attribute in Customizing for Outgoing Payments (Financial Accounting) in the activity
Check Payment Block Reason.Activities
You can set blocks at different organizational levels as follows:
Additional Information
FI Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable:
Blocking a Customer Account Centrally Blocking a Vendor Account CentrallyRetail:
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