This section describes how to set up the subsequent (end-of-period rebate) settlement accounting facility.
Subsequent (end-of-period) settlement is effected with respect to various conditions (for example, conditions governing the granting of volume-based incentive rebates that are valid during a certain period and which have been agreed upon by two business partners.
A volume-based incentive rebate is a partial refund of the total amount spent by one business partner on goods or services supplied by the other over a period. The party granting the rebate is termed the "condition granter" and the actual amount due may vary according to the money volume of business done (value of spend) over the period. The basis for a volume rebate can be defined in a variety of ways (for example, vendor or vendor/vendor sub-range). You can set up a rebate arrangement with your condition granter. The "subsequent settlement" accounting facility in the SAP system fulfills the following requirements:
If you wish to work with the "subsequent settlement" accounting facility, you must make adjustments to the account determination process in Customizing.
If you wish to assign arrangement partners to
rebate arrangements, you must maintain the appropriate schemas for "subsequent
settlement" in the Purchasing settings for partner determination and then
assign arrangement types to these. Schema 1000 (arrangement partners) is
supplied in the standard system.
For more on this topic, refer to
Set
up partner determination.
The following points must be taken into account when setting up the "subsequent settlement" facility:
To set up "subsequent settlement" accounting in a client, you must transport the following objects: