This component permits once-only or periodic settlement accounting with regard to conditions governing cumulative, end-of-period rebates.

If you use the Agency Business component, you can use the functions to perform settlement accounting with customers as well as vendors.

If, for example, you agree upon certain conditions with your vendor or customer that provide for the payment of rebates by the latter at the end of a certain period (possibly subject to a certain minimum volume of purchases) instead of immediate discounts allowed in or deductible from individual invoices, you can store such conditions in the system in the form of a "rebate arrangement". The system automatically updates the relevant business volumes. Settlement with regard to such conditions takes place at predefined points in time.

Use this component if you and your vendors or customers agree to conditions of purchase that require subsequent (end-of-period rebate) settlement.

• The system automatically updates the business volume for the goods for the corporate unit involved when you save the documents.

• You can still enter rebate arrangements after business volumes have already been recorded. In this case, the relevant business volumes are determined and updated retrospectively.

• At the end of the validity period of a rebate arrangement, or at the end of the agreed period, the system calculates the rebates payable with regard to conditions that are due for settlement and creates a settlement list. Depending on the settlement type, the system either automatically creates a vendor billing document or a customer billing document.

• Interim settlement is possible at any time for both rebate arrangements requiring once-only settlement and those requiring periodic settlement.

• If the results of your cumulative business volume update differ from those of your business partner, you can compare and reconcile the two sets of figures and carry out settlement accounting on the basis of an agreed value.

Conditions due for settlement immediately are settled as soon as invoices are received, or once payment has been made. These are therefore not discussed here.

You can process business volume data from customer billing documents via the SD volume-based rebate.

To improve performance for other SAP Retail application components accessed by subsequent settlement, make global settings in Customizing for subsequent settlement for each client.

• You can deactivate subsequent settlement
• You can deactivate individual checks for updating business volumes and for archiving data.