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 Social Services, Benefit Calculation and Payment

 

Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

ERP_IPS_4S_1

Type of Business Function

Industry Business Function

Available as of

SAP Enhancement Package 05 for SAP ERP 6.0

Technical Usage

Public Sector Accounting

Application Component

Social Services and Social Security (IS-PS-4S)

Directly Dependent Business Function That You Have to Activate Additionally

Enterprise Extension Public Services (EA-PS)

Social Services, Benefit Calculation (CRM_IPS_4S_1)

You use this business function to activate the automated billing back-end process in the application component Social Services in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The automated process includes the following components:

  • Calculating benefit entitlement amounts

  • Clearing social deduction amounts

  • Preparing periodic payment amounts

  • Performing a new calculation if services are changed

  • Performing the net calculation and preparation of billing documents as the basis for the payment run.

Payment of the benefit amounts calculated is performed using the payment run in the component Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.

Integration

In SAP ERP, the SAP menu and Customizing activities for Social Services have been incorporated in the menu and Customizing settings for the application component Public Sector Management (PSM). To access the menu and Customizing settings for Public Sector Management, you must activate the mandatory business configuration sets (BC sets) for Enterprise Extension Public Services (EA-PS).

Social services processing, on the basis of social applications, social service plans and social deduction plans, takes place in the SAP Customer Relationship Managment (SAP CRM) System. The data required for calculation and billing is replicated from here to SAP ERP. The functions in SAP CRM are based on the additional mandatory business function Social Services — Benefit Calculation (CRM_IPS-4S_1).

Prerequisites

You have installed the following components from the named version:

Type of component

Component

Is only needed for the following functions

Software Component

IS-PS-CA 605

FI-CA 605

EA-PS 605

EA-APPL 605

SAP-APPL 605

Product Component

EHP5 for SAP ERP 6.0

  • Activate the Business Function Set Industry Extension for Public Sector.

  • Install the Enterprise Extension Public Services (EA-PS 605) and activate the BC sets from EA-PS (see Business Function Set Public Services).

  • Install the application component Social Services in Customer Relationship Management for the Release SAP ERP 7.01 (Enhancement Package 5) and activate the business function CRM_IPS_4S_1.

  • Install the application component Social Services in Customer Relationship Management for the Release SAP CRM 7.01 (Enhancement Package 1) and activate the business function CRM_IPS_4S_1.

Features

The functions described in the following are only available if you have activated the business functions available for Social Services in both the SAP ERP and SAP CRM Systems.

Data Replication

Replication of Social Services data between SAP CRM and SAP ERP allows you to display the benefit and net amounts and the resulting overview of periodic payment and deduction amounts in a social service plan. Bidirectional data replication betweeen the two systems is supported as follows:

  • Header and item data for social service plans (SSP) and social deduction plans (SDP), the transaction history, status information and business partner and contract account data is replicated from SAP CRM to SAP ERP. The system combines SSP and SDP data as SXP data.

  • The amounts from the entitlement and gross payment calculation and net calculation are transferred from SAP ERP to SAP CRM where they can be displayed in the SAP WebClient UI.

Entitlement Calculation

During the entitlement calculation, the system calculates the entitlement amounts for the entitlement items in a social service plan and creates a corresponding gross entitlement amount document for subsequent processing. It also creates the deduction amounts in an associated gross entitlement document for each social deduction plan.

Gross Payment Determination

During this calculation, the system determines the gross payment amounts from the entitlement amounts that are to be paid regularly on a due date and creates a corresponding gross payment document for subsequent processing.

If a payment notice is updated, the new payment determined takes account of any existing gross payment documents and calculates any over or underpayments or adjusts future payment amounts.

Net Calculation

The net calculation bundles gross payment items according to logical payment criteria (payment family, payment frequency, due date, payment recipient) in a corresponding net calculation document. The net calculation document contains the entitlement amounts to be paid out and any deduction amounts entered for a beneficiary.

In the CRM WebClient UI you can use the Net Display function to simulate the amounts determined by the net calculation before the net calculation documents are generated.

Billing and Payment

During billing, you generate the corresponding billing documents on the basis of the net calculation documents. Payment items in a billing document are adjusted or extended so they are suitable for the posting data used in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) (for example contract account category, main and subtransaction). Billing documents support the program runs that can be executed in the Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable component for Payments or Revenue Distributions.

More Information

  • For more information about the business function CRM_IPS_4S_1, see SAP Library for SAP CRM on SAP Help Portal under Start of the navigation path http:/help.sap.com/crm Next navigation step SAP CRM 7.0 Enhancement Package 1 Next navigation step Application Help Next navigation step Business Functions (SAP Enhancement Package 1 for SAP CRM 7.0) Next navigation step Business Functions for SAP Customer Relationship Management Next navigation step Social Services, Benefit Calculation. End of the navigation path.

  • For more information about the application help for the business function ERP_IPS_4S_1, see SAP Library for SAP CRM on SAP Help Portal under Start of the navigation path http:/help.sap.com/crm Next navigation step SAP CRM 7.0 Enhancement Package 1 Next navigation step Application Help Next navigation step SAP Customer Relationship Management Next navigation step SAP CRM for Industries Next navigation step Public Sector Next navigation step Social Services Next navigation step Benefit Calculation and Payment End of the navigation path.