Determination 

Use

Used to determine object categories and object IDs. The objects so determined are available for the corresponding business process.  Determination runs as a background job and certain characteristic combinations are the basis for the determination. The determination pinpoints the characteristic types ROLE_OBJ_TYPES (type of object for calculation) and ROLE_OBJ_IDs (identification of object for calculation) out of a combination of different characteristics that you define yourself and store in Customizing under Construction. Sample objects are performance-related remuneration type, liability type, participation, special remunerations, and so on.

Prerequisite

To use the full functionality of the determination, you have to create and generate the selection table(s) in Customizing under Commissions ® Application Administration ® General Settings ® Design Adjustment of Commission Application ® Commission Application Construction. Then you maintain the determination for the corresponding agreements in Customizing.

Features

The assignment to the standard commission contract has been defined in the commission contract. This assignment is required for determination, since the different agreements and the corresponding versions have been set out in the standard commission contract.

The time of access, a standard contract number and agreement category such as performance-related remuneration or liability are generally transferred to the determination process. The process steps to determine relevant object types and object IDs are as follows:

1)       Commission contract is read and standard contract number determined.

2)       System determines the relevant version of standard contract on the basis of the time of access and standard contract number.

3)       Depending on the values of the agreements that the system returns, the commission system reads the standard agreement ID (for instance, remuneration) in the standard commission contract.  The standard agreement ID is required since a combination of different characteristics is assigned to each agreement.

4)       The COMBPT_ID is determined by the agreement ID (see graphic).

5)   Result of Determination

a)   Using the COMBPT_ID, the result of the determination is to list one or more object ID with the corresponding object type(s) and supply an internal table to the process initiating the determination.

b)   If no combination pairs are determined, the process continues. On the basis of the characteristic combinations you defined in selection table (SELTAB), one or more SEL_ID is determined.  With this and the COMBPT_ID, a new COMBPT_ID is determined in table CACS_CASSIGN with which process step 5a recommences.

 

Graphic: Determination Process

Example

The commission system determines the relevant remuneration type in the determination process for performance-related remuneration.  This remuneration type is then used for the condition technique.

 

The determination does not use valuations and bonuses.