Recycling Declaration Type
The detailed format of a declaration, specifying how the associated setup, calculation, and content of the declaration is to look for the recycling partner. A specific declaration of this type is based on a contract agreed between your company and a recycling partner.
Declarations are created and managed in the Recycling Administration (REA)
component as documents using the declaration system, and are transferred to the recycling partner at regular intervals. Once you have generated a declaration (for the declaration types “periodical declaration”, “declaration consolidation”, and “assortment declaration”), the system saves the declaration result and if necessary generates the appropriate FI document.
Structure
REA supports various declaration types that the system uses to create the respective declaration depending on the document category.
Periodical Declaration
The system generates a declaration including all article, packaging, or fraction quantity data based on the following criteria:
Movement data from Sales and Distribution (SD billing documents) or Materials Management (MM goods issue) in the SAP standard system and the recycling contracts
The selection criteria you entered, for example, data filter or splitting methods
In your periodical declaration, you provide your recycling partner with the information and totals for each fraction from the period under consideration. For example, you declare five tons of glass and three tons of paper for all declared articles as the quantity flow. In this quantity-based declaration, the system considers fraction discounts, item-dependent fees, and other price calculation parameters (for example, splitting). You can check this data at individual document and item level.
Note
So that the system does not have to calculate the quantity flow for packaging from the individual billing documents during the periodical or final annual declaration, which would be extremely time-intensive, you can use the Logistics Information System (LIS) or Sales Information System (SIS) of the standard SAP system.
You can create an information structure with the characteristics and key figures relevant for REA.
You can configure the update for billing documents, taking into account the data filters and basis article master information defined in REA.
Declaration Consolidation
The system combines multiple periodical declarations into one document and can then post this in a consolidated format.
Declarations are consolidated to minimize the effort required to create declarations that are valid across several periods, whereby the system accesses periods already declared and generates a new, common declaration from them.
Assortment Declaration
The system searches the recycling master data (for example, packaging) for new items, changes, and deletions, and then generates a list based on the assortment of changed master data. The declaration can be for a period or a key date.
Note
An assortment declaration is a special type of declaration from Duales System Deutschland (DSD)
.
Annual Prepaid Declaration
Based on your estimates, you manually enter the quantity of fractions or volume/area classes in the system in advance. Your estimate is the basis of the prepaid declaration to the recycling partner. As the recipient of this declaration, your recycling partner can then plan a whole year ahead.
Possible variances between the declarations based on estimates and the data actually collected during the period in question are identified in the periodical declaration.
Mid-Year Prepaid Declaration
A subtype of the annual prepaid declaration, in which the period under consideration is less than 12 months. This allows you to document estimates (for example, for the next six months) in declarations, which your recycling partner (as the recipient of these declarations) can include in planning.