Changing Down Payment Chains 

Prerequisites

If you want to change a debit-side down payment chain, choose Debit-Side Down Payment Chains (transaction /SAPPCE/DPCD01). The Debit-Side Down Payment Chain screen appears.

If you want to change credit-side down payment chains, choose Credit-Side Down Payment Chains (transaction /SAPPCE/DPCK01). The Credit-Side Down Payment Chain screen appears.

Procedure

You must open a down payment chain before you can make changes to it. There are two ways of opening a down payment chain.

●      You can open a down payment chain by searching for a particular down payment chain and including it at the same time in the favorites list.

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                            a.      Choose  with quick info Open.

                            b.      A dialog box appears to select the down payment chain.

                            c.      Enter the company code and the down payment chain number.

                            d.      Choose  with quick info Open to open the selected down payment chain.

                            e.      Choose  with quick info Add to Favorites to include the selected down payment chain in the favorites list.

                              f.      Choose  Open with quick info Add to favorites and open to both open the selected down payment chain and include it in the favorites list.

●      Another way of opening an existing down payment chain is to use the worklist or the favorites list.

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                            a.      Choose  Worklist with quick info Worklist, or  Favorites list with quick info Favorites.

                            b.      Double-click on the down payment chain you want to transfer to the Down Payment Chain Structure screen area for editing.

Result

●      The system transfers the selected down payment chain in the Down Payment Chain Structure screen area and checks whether the residual items need to be displayed when entering the down payment chain.

●      Residual items are only created if partial invoices are posted as down payment requests and the down payment requests have not been paid in full.

When a partial payment is made for a down payment request, this down payment request is cleared, although the full amount has not been paid or received. Therefore a residual item for the outstanding amount is created.

If this is the case, the system automatically posts residual items for the outstanding payments. If automatic creation of residual item fails, the system displays a message in the status bar on the processing screen and the pushbutton  with quick info Create Residual Items appears in the application toolbar.

○       Choose  with quick info Create Residual Items to demand payment for the remaining amount. The system then posts residual items for the outstanding payments.

○       Otherwise the system only creates residual items when you next post a down payment request. However, if you post a final invoice the next time, no residual items are created.

For more information about creating residual items, see Automatic Creation of Residual Items.

●      Then you can:

○       Edit the contract data for down payment chains

○       Post a transaction (see Posting of Transactions)

○       Call the transaction detail view

○       Call the down payment chain transaction overview

○       Call the transaction detail view

○       View the transaction documents

○       Execute the down payment chain transaction overview

○       Call the down payment chain overview