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Define Accounts Receivable Pledging Indicator

You use the accounts receivable factoring indicator to select customer master records and line items within a company code to participate in the factoring procedure.

Requirements

You have activated the accounts receivable factoring procedure in the required company code. To do this, select the activity Activate Accounts Receivable Factoring Procedure per Company Code in Customizing under Financial Accounting Global Settings -> Company Code.

Activities

Define the factoring indicator in the customer master record.

Select the field Accounts receivable factoring indicator. You can do this from the R/3 screen as follows Accounting -> Financial accounting -> Accounts receivable -> Master records -> Change -> Customer -> General data -> Company code data -> Payment transactions.

The system automatically transfers the indicator to the customer line item on posting.

Further Notes

In special cases, for example, alternative master record details, you can also enter or change the accounts receivable factoring indicator manually using Change document.

You can also carry out a mass change of the factoring indicator for line items. For information see the SAP Library under unter FI Document Posting -> Functions in Document Processing -> Change Documents in Mass Changes to Customer and Vendor Line Items.