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Function documentationSplitting

 

The Recycling Administration (REA) component enables you to define specific rules to calculate and split the license fee between multiple recycling partners:

  • The license fee is split between two or more recycling partners

  • Individual sales areas are excluded fully or partially from the fee calculation

  • Individual REA packaging is settled fully or partially and exclusively with one recycling partner

  • Individual compliance systems are depicted

  • Purchasing transactions are excluded fully or partially from the fee calculation

Splitting the license fee is dependent on the business process, the recycling partner settings, and the REA master data.

Prerequisites

The requirements depend on the method of splitting used:

In Customizing for Sales and Distribution, you have made the settings for the respective method of splitting used under Start of the navigation path Billing Next navigation step Recycling Administration Next navigation step Condition Types and Splitting End of the navigation path:

  • Splitting between recycling partners at article level

    • You have authorized all recycling partners involved for this method of splitting. You have therefore set the indicator Use Splitting.

    • You have authorized all recycling partners (with the key combination recycling partner/company code/country) for splitting between recycling partners (the SF indicator is set).

  • Regional processing

    • You have set the Regional Splitting indicator for the recycling partner.

    • The recycling partner must then be activated for regional processing in a sales or purchasing area in Customizing for REA. If the recycling partner is to use regional processing at article level, the RG indicator must be set.

  • Splitting with an additional recycling partner

    Recycling partners can be used for regional processing only if you have set the Add. Splitting indicator.

Features

Splitting is based on “splitting factors”. The splitting factor is a percentage that specifies which portion of an article is to be settled with a recycling partner. This value is specified for each recycling partner and is independent of time. REA condition types allow you to define splitting factors that are time-dependent. In this case, the splitting factor is modeled by a combination of condition types. The overall percentage of a splitting factor can be divided into individual percentage values, which are each assigned to a condition type key. You can calculate these sub-percentages separately within a REA declaration, and therefore precisely determine the effects on the license fee calculation.

Condition types have a condition type category, which specifies the fee calculation level on which the condition can be used. For splitting, you can use only conditions of category Quantity Condition (M).

REA distinguishes between three splitting methods:

  • Splitting between recycling partners at article level

    Splitting between two or more recycling partners at article level enables you to settle an article independently of its purchasing or sales area so that the license fees are divided among the recycling partners involved according to the splitting quotas. The system can (optionally) check whether 100% of the license fee has been settled.

  • Regional processing

    Depending on the purchasing or sales area, the system settles the license fee for the article according to the splitting quota of the relevant recycling partner. The system does not check whether 100% of the license fee has been settled. You configure regional processing in Customizing for REA. You can then override the Customizing settings by entering new settings at article level.

  • Splitting with an additional recycling partner

    Splitting with an additional recycling partner means that specific packaging for an article can be settled exclusively with one recycling partner according to the splitting quota. Settlement is dependent on the purchasing or sales area. You can configure this splitting method so that any unsettled license fees are either forfeited in part or in full, or assigned to another recycling partner in part or in full. You can also use this splitting method to automatically assign all license fees that are not settled at company code level to a recycling partner.

For more information about condition types and splitting, see the documentation for the corresponding IMG activity in Customizing under Start of the navigation path Sales and Distribution Next navigation step Billing Next navigation step Recycling Administration Next navigation step Condition Types and Splitting End of the navigation path.

Activities

As a rule, REA calculates the splitting of the license fee for each article in two stages:

  1. The individual splitting factors of all recycling partners involved are calculated using predefined access schemas.

  2. The actual splitting quota to be settled for each assigned packaging is calculated using article, recycling partner, and Customizing data.

Note Note

Each recycling partner can participate simultaneously in multiple splitting methods. All three splitting methods can be combined with one another, although specific rules must be adhered to.

End of the note.

Example

On the one hand, with recycling partner DSD you can settle 100% of the packaging seal, including the associated fractions. On the other hand, recycling partner XXX settles 100% of the packaging bottle, including the associated fractions.

However, you can also settle all fractions with DSD and XXX based on different quotas (60% to 40%).

REA is designed so that you can choose any recycling partners for any article. You can choose to recycle an entire article with one recycling partner or have individual packaging recycled by the recycling partner with the most favorable rates.