In Collections Management, you define the test series for champion/challenger analyses. You can define challenger strategies for a certain percentage of champion strategies and allocate master data groups for the analysis.

In Collections Management and in classical dunning, you can generate worklists from the dunning runs, which you can use as the basis for a telephone call to a customer, or for telephony systems.

You can define responsibilities for processing the worklists for a department, a group, and/or collection specialists.

Both surcharges and reductions are possible for withholding tax to be retained.

You can define any number of withholding tax base amounts or percentages as well as withholding tax amounts at business partner item level.

Receivables and payables can be assigned using a profit center.

The profit center, business area, and account assignments of Funds Management can be inherited from the receivables for the tax items. If necessary, the tax items are distributed between different account assignments.

Postings to balance sheet accounts (for example, bank accounts and bank clearing accounts) can be assigned using a profit center.

You can include partial amounts of receivables in an installment plan. The first installment amount can be different to the remaining installments. You can also add additional surcharges to installment plans, such as inflation-related charges.

You can automatically write off receivables according to a time and amount grid.

The classic revenue distribution is available as a mass activity.

As part of the enhanced revenue distribution, you can not only distribute cleared receivable items by payment to the final recipient, you can also distribute open receivables items and payments on account.

You can group items together before automatic clearing.

For mass activities, you can determine the problem class of the messages issued by the application log.

In the payment run, you can use master data preselection to select the business partner or contract account.

For international payment transfers, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable supports BIC and IBAN in payment lots and in transfer programs for generating payment lots instead of bank codes and bank account numbers.

Extractors for the payment and returns history enhance the analysis options within SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI).

You can transfer clarification cases from SAP Dispute Management to an external application for further processing. This means, for example, that you can also create and process clarification cases in a Customer Interaction Center.

You can also subsequently integrate the Funds Management component (PSM-FM) from Public Sector Management with Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.

If, during invoicing, neither the times nor the amounts for the deferred revenue recognition are available, you can use events to trigger the revenue recognition.

In the event of doubtful entries or individual value adjustments, you can use ledger groups for the postings to update selected ledgers.

During value adjustment, you can specify an explicit value adjustment amount, which the system uses to perform indivudal value adjustment for a receivable.

You can create installment plan evaluations for the key date so that installment plans are taken into account for balancing purposes when listing the open items.

For submission to collection agencies, the file interface has been replaced by corresponding Enterprise Services. A monitoring function for collection services is available as well as transactions for processing collection agency data and posting collection agency payments.

By implementing the corresponding Enterprise Services, you can do the following within the external cash desk services: