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Process documentationInformation about Facility-Relevant Posting of Payment Items

 

When you execute facility business transactions on a participant account (for example, posting payment items, or creating prenotes that are subject to posting control), the system runs real-time checks, including limit checks, on the entire hierarchy.

Prerequisites

You have made the necessary settings in Customizing. For more information, see Creation of Facilities in the Prerequisites section.

Process

  1. On the posting day, execute the postings that are due on the current posting date of the payment transaction on the participant account in the account-managing system.

    If you are using Account Management (FS-AM), see Creating Payment Items and Creating Prenotes for more information.

  2. When you post payment items (including item splits) and create prenotes, the system runs formal and material checks.

    When the Facilities check object is run, the system updates in real-time the utilization drawing balance of the participant accounts, and the utilization balances of the higher-level master contracts.

    Depending on the Customizing settings, the system also runs facility checks.

  3. After the payment item posting, the account-managing system transfers the final changed status of the calculation bases asynchronously to Master Contract Management (FS-MCM). It does this by synchronously creating reservations for the turnovers during the payment item processing. Once the final status of the calculation bases in the account-managing system applies (posted or not posted), MCM triggers the reservations.

    On the SAP Easy Access screen choose Start of the navigation path Facilities Next navigation step Periodic Tasks End of the navigation path to execute the following reports to ensure that the systems interact smoothly:

    • Reorganize Facilities: Concept of the core and interim tables for updating utilization; To avoid locks, the report reorganizes the entries in the interim tables and updates the core tables.

    • Monitor Consistency: Action to be executed: Status Check for Open Reservations.

    • Run Facility Checks: Determines if any limits have been exceeded for facilities, and generates postprocessing orders.

    If you are using SAP Business Intelligence (SAP BI), you are also provided with the report Transfer Data to BI.