Technical Name of Business Function |
ISU_WASTE_RCI_2 |
Type of Business Function |
Industry Business Function |
Available As Of |
SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Technical Usage |
Utilities/Waste&Recycling/Telco |
Application Component |
SAP Waste and Recycling (IS-U-WA) |
Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition |
Utilities, Waste and Recycling (ISU_UTIL_WASTE) Utilities, General Enhancements (ISU_UTIL_1) Waste & Recycling (ISU_WASTE_1) |
This business function supports one of the most important requirements of the waste disposal industry, in particular for connercial and industrial customers: The delivery of containers to different locations in one day.
To meet this requirement, it was necessary to implement a container management logic tailored specifically to SAP Waste and Recycling. Important processes that were executed using SAP Utilities Device Management before SAP Enhancement Package 2 for SAP ERP 6.0, Industry Extension Utilities, Waste and Recycling was available, are now fully integrated in SAP Waste and Recycling with improved usability.
You can now create multiple consecutive delivery and removal orders for the same container on one day.
You can define precise delivery and removal times.
You can now also define container groups without serialized materials.
Enhancements to accelerated weighing entry
Enhancements to the controlling cockpit
Enhancements to the waste disposal order cockpit
Enhancements to container location management and service frequency
You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:
Type of Component |
Component |
Software Component |
IS-UT 604 |
Software Component |
FI-CA 604 |
Software Component |
SAP-APPL 604 |
Software Component |
EA-APPL 604 |
You have activated the following business functions:
Utilities, General Enhancements (ISU_UTIL_1)
Utilities, Waste and Recycling (ISU_UTIL_WASTE)
Waste & Recycling (ISU_WASTE_1)
Note
You can only implement enhanced container management if you use the waste disposal order cockpit, which was delivered with SAP Enhancement Package 2.
Caution
The old confirmation transaction Confirm Waste Disposal Order (EWAORDRESL) does not support the new function.
If you activate this business function, certain adjustments are made automatically in the background so that you can use the new functions:
All container groups based on SAP Utilities device groups are converted to installations (IBASE). The connections of the container groups in the waste disposal specific tables (EWAOBJ, EWATDEVLOC, EWA_ORDER_OBJECT, ETTIFB, EWAELOCSD_NEW) are also updated.
The system automatically creates a table (EWADCFL) for tracking delivery and collection orders for each container.
The allocations of containers (or container groups) to SD contracts are automatically moved to a new table (EWAELOCSD_NEW), which can also store the time data of the allocations.
Note
Note that, depending on the volume of data in your system, it can take from several minutes to several hours to convert these tables.
Recommendation
To enable you to verify conversion of the data and make any adjustments required, the system does not delete obsolete data from IS-U device management during this data conversion process. You can do this with report ISUWA_RCI_DATA_CLEANUP_EHP4, which you can execute once you have successfully verified your data.
Once you have activated the business function, you can use the following new and enhanced functions:
Input delivery and removal times when creating container services
Enter a planned time and duration for the service
Enter a time when allocating the container to an SD contract
Display delivery and removal times for waste disposal order and all relevant master data
Track individual delivery and removal orders per container in a specially created table
Plausibility checks during creation, planning and confirmation of waste disposal orders - prevent overlaps in delivery and removal orders
Option to create one-time services in the background when entering delivery and removal orders
Option of implicit confirmation of delivery and removal orders
Option to generate periodic replacement orders from the service frequency
Create a delivery and removal order in one step
Check that regular services can only be confirmed after the corresponding delivery order for the container has been confirmed
Automatic creation of an order for a new date if confirmation of delivery or removal order is negative
Entry of alternative serial numbers - now also for removal orders
Enhancements in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
If you activate this business function, you can also use the following functions in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable:
Receivables management
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.
Tax
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.
Integration with the general ledger accounting - account assignment
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.
Other Enhancements in Receivables Management
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.
Payments
In the payment run, you can use for 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.
Integration with other application components
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.
Closing preparations
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.
Entreprise Services
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:
Process deposits, withdrawals, and cash desk differences of external cash desks
Enter G/L postings and down payments to external cash desks (or in branches) in expanded form
Check the cash balances of external cash desks and payment collectors (branches)
Country-specific enhancements for Italy
You can levy Bollo for customers with tax exception.
Country-specific enhancements for USA
Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable supports the process of check escheatment for checks that were not cashed by the recipient within a specified time period.
Recommendation
For more information, see the following release notes:
ISU_WASTE_RCI_2: Enhanced Container Managament (Waste and Recycling, RCI) (central release note for the business function)
Mapping the Container Group via the Installation (ISU_604_WA_IBASE)
Enhanced Container Management (ISU_604_WA_RCI_1)