Payment Medium
Workbench 
Use
The Payment Medium Workbench is used for creation of payment media. It is a generic tool that will gradually replace the classic payment medium programs (RFFO*).
The Payment Medium Workbench (PMW) is made up of the following parts:
Definition of formats
Payment medium formats are provided by SAP. Format implementation is carried out using system settings (with customer name space) and
- either using the mapping tool of the
- or by programming function modules.
Further information concerning the
implementation of formats will be made available.
Displaying Payment Medium Formats
Customer-specific adaptation of formats
It is possible to modify the contents of the
created payment medium files using event modules.
Adjust Payment Medium Formats
Note to payee
Payment medium note to payee layout is
predefined, detatched from the payment medium format.
Define Note to Payee
Assign format and note to payee
In payment program configuration, a payment
medium format (DTAUS0) and not a classic payment medium program (RFFOD__U) is
assigned to the payment method in the country. Here, you also assign the note
to payee to be used. However, the note to payee can also be assigned to
certain origins (application component from which the payment originates, for
example FI-AP or HR-PY), so that vendor payments ("Your invoice ... from ...")
contain a different note to payee than HR payments ("Your salary from
...").
Customizing: Maintain Payment Program
Generic payment medium program
The generic
Payment Medium Program of the PMW is scheduled automatically in
the payment programs (F110 and F111). The required selection variants are no
longer maintained as parameters for the payment run (as is the case with the
classic payment medium (RFFO*) programs) but are instead current settings. One
or more selection variants is/are maintained in these current settings for
each possible payment medium recipient (for example company code house banks).
The selection variant(s) is/are then used during scheduling of the payment
program.
Maintain and Assign Variants
General creation of advice notes
The print program for payment advice notes ( RFFOAVIS_FPAYM) is used to create payment advice notes for payment media created using the PMW, and are sorted generally for each payment run.
Effects on Existing Data
You can continue to use the classic payment medium programs during the transition period. A switch to payment medium formats can occur at any time. You just have to ensure that settings for payment method in country (mentionned above) are made.
Effects on Customizing
In the IMG for Financial Accounting, you should carry out the activities listed under Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable -> Business Transactions -> Outgoing Payments -> Automatic Outgoing Payments -> Payment Medium Formats.
The settings (above) for payment medium formats that are supplied, are located in activities
Assign Payment Medium Formats Note
Unlike the classic payment medium programs (RFFO*), the PMW effects a pre-service (sorting, grouping, and compilation of note to payee layout) that prepares payment medium creation persistently. To ensure that changes made to formats in Customizing are effective for payment runs already created, this pre-service has to be reset using program RFPAYM_RESET.