Customizing settings or other sets of data have to be maintained in the following areas for agency business to be correctly mapped to the component for this in SAP Retail.

The required settings for handling payment transactions with business partners (vendors and customers) have to be made in the vendor and customer master. These include payment terms, payment methods and bank details. This information is automatically read by the system when you enter payment documents.

The Purchasing data tab page contains an indicator that specifies whether a business partner is allowed for agency business. If you do not set this indicator, you cannot create any agency documents for the business partner.

The relevant article master records must exist in the article master if you want to do the following:

• Use vendor billing documents.

• Define article-specific data in a single settlement request or settlement request list.

The relevant sites have to be maintained in the site master if you want to enter any site-specific data in a single settlement request, a settlement request list or a vendor billing document.

Settings including document types, settlement types and calculation schema determination must be defined in Customizing for Agency Business.

For further information, see the Agency Business section of the implementation guide (IMG).

The condition technique of Purchasing is used to determine prices in Agency Business for calculating del credere commissions, discounts, conditions in Subsequent Settlement, and other transactions involving prices.

Schema determination is run separately for vendors and customers. The calculation schemas required for this are defined in Customizing for Purchasing.

The system finds calculation schemas for vendor billing documents and for single settlement requests/a settlement request lists for vendors and customers on the basis of the following data:

• the schema group defined for the purchasing organization
• the schema group defined for the vendor
• the document schema

These assignments must be maintained in the Calculation Schema Determination steps in Customizing for Agency Business.

For further information, see the Purchasing section of the implementation guide (IMG).

The relevant functions are required in Financial Accounting for the accounting documents generated from all the various agency business documents to be able to be processed further.

In the Payment Type activity in Customizing for Agency Business, you define whether the organizational structures of Purchasing and Sales and Distribution are to be used for settlement or whether company code level is to be used instead.