Trade, Agency Business 4
Technical Name of Business Function |
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Type of Business Function | Enterprise Business Function |
Available From | SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Technical Usage | Central Application |
Application Component | Agency Business (LO-AB) |
Required Business Function | Trade, Agency Business 3 ( |
You can use this business function to implement new business models for agency business processes, support allocation of any types of expenses, improve cost transparency, and increases process flexibility and efficiency. This business function allows you to create Intrastat declarations using agency documents on behalf of your company and, as an additional service offering, on behalf of your customers. Furthermore, a new B2B outbound service allows customers and partners to leverage enterprise service-oriented architecture for the exchange of invoices.
The following further enhancements in agency business processes increase usability in the modeling of business processes through a unified reporting architecture that enables greater flexibility for end users.
Generation of subitems
Item cancellation
Authority check before FI document creation
Flexible mass data processing
Updating of complaints data
Combined settlement
Reconciliation account determination
Calculation scheme determination
Flexible account determination
Determination of tax-relevant country of departure and destination
This business function also supports the integration of the catch weight concept into Agency Business, which enables you to display the parallel quantity and parallel unit of measure of catch weight materials.
Integration
The new features of this business function are enhancements of the
Agency Business
component. Agency Business is integrated in SAP’s core application SAP ERP Central Component 6.0 (SAP ECC 6.0) and can be implemented in conjunction with other SAP Industry Add-ons, such as SAP Retail.This business function enables the transfer of data that is relevant for the creation of Intrastat declarations in SAP Electronic Compliance Reporting (SAP ECR) and can be implemented in conjunction with SAP Global Trade Services 8.0 (SAP GTS 8.0).
You have to activate
CWM, Finalization of Architectural Change and New Processes
(/CWM/CM_2) business function to use catch weight materials in Agency Business.
Prerequisites
You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:
Type of Component | Component | Required for the Following Features Only |
| Software Component | EA-RETAIL 605 SAP_APPL 605 | EA-RETAIL 605 is an optional component which has to be installed related business function features are used. |
| Software Component | SLL-LEG 800 | Only required if Data Transfer for Intrastat Declarations is used. |
| SAP Enterprise Services | SAP APPL 605 Namespace: http://sap.com/xi/APPL/Global2 | B2B Outbound Service for Invoice Processing |
The following business function has to be activated in order to use the Trade, Agency Business 4
(ISR_APPL_AGENCY_4) business function:
To create Intrastat declarations in SAP ECR using the data created in agency documents, you must:
Create vendor master data and customer master data in Material Management.
Define settings in Customizing for
Logistics - General
Agency Business
:-
Basic Settings
Transaction Reasons
-
Billing
Billing Document Types
-
Intrastat
Define settings for master data, legal regulations, commodity codes, and classification help in Customizing for
SAP Global Trade Services
.
Features
The following features are available with the Trade, Agency Business 4
business function:
Data Transfer for Intrastat Declarations
Agency documents can be selected for transfer to SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) where the information in these documents is used to create Intrastat declarations for arrivals in or dispatches out of a company. Furthermore, Intrastat declarations can be created on behalf of a customer for dispatches.
For more information, see Intrastat Processing.
B2B Outbound Service for Invoice Processing
A new B2B outbound service is available to send out invoices or cancellations of invoices. This service is available with the Customer Invoice Processing process component.
For more information about the new service operation, see the SOA documentation.
Generation of Subitems
Agency business functionality supports cost allocation in the retail method of accounting (RMA). Within agency documents, it is now required to generate subitems to distribute expenses such as lump-sum rebates. A Business Add-In (BAdI) is available to distribute values or costs on multiple attributes of one item, such as a profit center or plants.
Item Cancellation
Agency documents can now be cancelled at item level.
Authority Check before FI Document Creation
For security and legal reasons, an authority check precedes the creation of FI documents to ensure that only designated employees make FI postings.
Flexible Mass Data Processing
New reports are available with more flexible selection criteria for mass data processing.
Updating of Complaints Data
A new combined report view is available that lists complaints and their original agency documents in one list, allowing you to compare changes between a complaints document and its original document more easily.
Combined Settlement
A new combined settlement function enables you to combine the direct posting of single settlement requests and the posting using follow-on documents (settlement list or vendor settlement, and posting list or customer settlement). In this way, one party is directly posted via single settlement request, whereas the other party is posted using follow-on documents.
Reconciliation Account Determination
You can use the reconciliation account determination in Sales and Distribution (SD) to determine a reconciliation account in agency documents that differs from the company code master data.
Calculation Scheme Determination
The copy function of agency documents now considers the update of the price determination and allows a new determination of the calculation scheme itself.
Flexible Account Determination
You can now use the logic of the vendor billing document as well as the standard account determination to support account determination for the subledger. The relevant account determination scheme can be defined according to the billing document type.
Determination of Tax-Relevant Country of Departure and Destination
Area default values can be selected to determine the tax-relevant country of departure and tax-relevant country of destination. These values are relevant for price determination and Intrastat processing.
Integration of Catch Weight Management (CWM)
The integration of the catch weight concept in Agency Business enables you to use two different units of measure for products (a logistical and an inventory-managing UoM) in vendor billing documents and expense documents.