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Object documentationRecycling Partner

 

The contract partner with whom a company processes recycling fees. The recycling partner can be an (environmental) authority for which you must fulfill certain reporting obligations or a company that collects and processes material for recycling on behalf of your company (licensee).

These companies are “licensors” (recyclers), who assume your recycling responsibility for a fee. Licensors either recycle the material themselves or contract another company to recycle it. The recycling partner is therefore an external interface with which a company processes the administrative and financial aspects of the recycling process.

 

By configuring the settings for the recycling partner, you establish the basis for the following processes:

  • Creating article and packaging master data

    A recycling partner is required before you can create master data for articles and packaging.

  • Assigning a recycling partner to price lists, articles, packaging, and fractions

    This relationship network is essential for the continued declaration and settlement process, since a valid price list for each recycling partner enables you to determine how the cost structure for the article and its components is configured.

  • Defining fee splitting

    You can choose to recycle an entire article with one recycling partner or have each individual packaging or fraction recycled by the recycling partner with the most favorable rates.

  • Determining prices

    The recycling partner is a central component of price determination. Price lists are assigned to the recycling partner, thus allowing the system to evaluate the articles in question.

  • Creating documents (declarations)

    The recycling partner for whom the declaration in question is intended is always specified in the documents.

  • Evaluating information specific to recycling partners

    Using various reports, the system can collate detailed information about the recycling partner.

If you want to edit a recycling partner, configure the necessary settings from the SAP Easy Access menu for Billing by choosing Start of the navigation path Recycling Administration Next navigation step Tools Next navigation step Recycling Partner End of the navigation path (transaction J7LE).

If you want to create new recycling partners more quickly, you can copy existing ones and then edit the copies.

The system carries out the following checks in relation to the recycling partner:

  • It does not allow you to change the recycling partner if you have changed the settings for fee splitting (splitting and regional processing) at the same time.

  • It does not allow you to delete the recycling partner if the partner is still being used in the packaging master, packaging groups, or articles.

Structure

REA-specific data in the master record of a recycling partner is, for example, the following:

  • REA-specific declaration keys

  • Weight-dependent fee

  • Regional splitting

Integration

A master record for a recycling partner always refers to a vendor master record in the standard SAP system. REA evaluates the settings for address, communication, and tax data, for example, from the vendor master data.

You can also configure settings for account determination in the vendor master if documents are to be posted from REA declaration administration to Financial Accounting (FI).

Using the data entered for the country defined in the vendor's address, the system determines the country-dependent tax code. Using the data for the communication language, the system generates texts in the documents in the appropriate language.

You can branch from the recycling partner to the associated vendor master record of the recycling partner (Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Vendor Master End of the navigation path).