Extended Rebate Processing - SAP Documentation

Use

The Extended Rebate Processing component is an enhancement of the mySAP ERP rebate processing.

You can use Extended Rebate Processing to process business transactions that are typical for and occur frequently in the consumer goods industry (for example, the beverage industry). This includes indirect sales, which are frequent practice in the beverage industry.

Indirect sales are sales activities in which the rebate-relevant sales do not take place directly between the rebate granter and the rebate recipient. In the terms of mySAP ERP, this means the system does not use customer billing documents to update sales.

In the Extended Rebate Processing component, the system can model and settle rebates for each specific article. The system allocates the defined rebate levels to the individual articles and provides a wide range of analyses in SAP CO-PA.

The ERP system only supports a single rebate recipient for each agreement. The Extended Rebate Processing component has been enhanced to support multiple rebate recipients in a rebate agreement. This applies especially to customer hierarchies.

The Extended Rebate Processing component enables you to settle rebate agreements periodically. Individual periods are settled like individual agreements.

Implementation Notes

The Pendelum List Indirect Sales component is an enhancement of Extended Rebate Processing . The pendulum list enables you to process indirect sales. The Pendulum List component provides tools for automatic data import.

This documentation describes the special features of the extended rebate , compared to the Rebate Processing application component. For more information, see the Rebate Processing application component.

Integration

Extended Rebate Processing is integrated in SAP Profitability Analysis (CO-PA). SAP Profitability Analysis supports the article-specific update of the “customer rebate”, for example. The system provides detailed information directly after settlement.

Features

A variable key in the rebate information structure provides more flexibility during rebate settlement. When the rebate information structure is updated, certain data from the billing documents can be added to the variable key. The system copies this data to the billing document when it generates the credit memo. This enables you, for example, to add the articles that resulted in the rebate to the credit memo, instead of the material for settlement. The partners from the billing documents can also be copied, which makes it possible to allocate multiple rebate recipients to a single condition.
Periodic settlement of rebate agreements. Instead of periodic partial settlement, in which the system takes the entire validity period of a rebate into consideration, you can now perform partial settlements in which the system only takes the individual periods for the settlement into account. As a result, individual periods are settled like individual agreements. This applies especially to the use of scales and fixed amounts.
Processing of indirect rebate agreements. The use of pro forma billing documents makes indirect data available for rebate processing. You can use special pricing procedures and condition formulas to use plan data for forming accruals and actual data for rebate settlement.
Forgo Credit Memo Requests The system immediately creates billing documents (credit memos) upon settlement.

Constraints

Make sure that you use either the Extended Rebate Processing component or the mySAP ERP Rebate Processing component.

To use the Extended Rebate Processing component, you have to activate the new mySAP ERP rebate processing.