Maintaining business partner texts

You can use this function to add texts to the business partner master data, for instance to log notes and comments. A user can be given read or write authorization. A change history is also available.

Generate credit master data record for media customers on the basis of default values.

Sales agent assignment using the new requirement types design type and item category

Reassign sales agent contracts

You can use this function to divide requirements, requirement elements or both, and copy these into other sales agent contracts.

Order lock for advertisers and agencies

You can use this function to prevent creation of orders for defined agency and advertiser combinations. You can continue to create orders, which this agency places for other advertisers or for this advertiser using a different agency.

Enhancement for agency orders

You can use this function to transfer the business partner number of the advertiser to the field Store Account Number in the Accounting Document Segment (table BSEG) and in doing so select the open items for a specific advertiser for an agency or an agency for specific advertisers using standard reports and functions.

Search helps for advertiser for the agency and the agency for the advertiser when creating and changing contracts

Assign several condition types to a billing dataset that are produced from various scale base contracts

Assign cost center and profit center to booking unit

Automated mass charge-off of open items (small balances and unrecoverable debt) from Accounts Receivable Accounting (FI-AR)

Bundle credit card authorization and delta authorization

You can use these functions to bundle billing datasets for credit card authorization and restrict authorization of credit cards to the difference amount following an order change (delta authorization).

Change technical content component for unpublished schedule lines even if one of the schedule lines for the item has already been published.

Change advertiser industry sector manually

You can change the default industry sector on the Advertiser screen and in items with several advertisers make flexible assignments to various industry sectors. You can also use the industry sector for the price calculation, reporting, sales agent determination and contract determination.

Extended order processing in the Customer Interaction Center (CIC)

You can cancel ad items, select the ad size from pre-defined ad sizes instead of entering this manually and displaying the ad content in the technical editor for designing classified ads (IS-M/AMC) using a hotspot.

Contract determination using specific attributes

The system only creates a contract assignment to a billing dataset in an ad order on the basis of the element in a contract requirement if the following attributes match and the minimum ad size has been reached but the maximum ad size has not been exceeded:

Copy manual condition types

You can copy all manual condition types, both those added directly on the condition screen for the billing dataset, and those resulting from discounts and surcharges. The system does not repeat pricing during copying.

Display public holiday information in the ad schedule line and in pricing

Transfer intermediate documents (IDocs) to selected partners using filters

Check during order processing whether ad dimensions correspond to defined rules (Min-Max rules)

Increase contract number per client to 52 x 62 plus 10 x 6

Publication calendar for online items

You can use this function to book individual unconnected publication dates for a specific online item.

Specify time slice for online items that defines the publication start and end for the banner

Online up-selling

You can use this function to make the indicator for the web publication modifiable in the order and in pricing.

RFC-enabled function module ISM_ORDER_ENQUEUE_CHECK for checking locking of Advertising Management orders

New fields for order pricing

Performance optimization for creating or changing media-specific business objects

Define a default advertiser price group from the payer or advertiser master data

Extended series pricing rule for defining the number of weekdays required within the series

Check ad content after changing a booking unit or content component

You can use this function to trigger a new check of the ad content again if it is changed manually (style and design options according to the booking unit and content component).

Round up actual ad spec height to the nearest multiple of 1/100, 1/10, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 and 1 in the unit of measure used.

This function provides you with rounding rules that you can use according to the combination of the booking unit, business content component, design ad type and unit of measure to define the value to which the system is to round up or down.

Reassign sales agent contracts

You can use this function to reassign sales agent contracts, meaning that you divide the requirements, requirement elements or both, and copy these into other sales agent contracts. Following copying, the system restricts the requirements or requirement elements in the original sales agent contract by changing the validity date.

Creation of weekday-dependent zones

You can use this function to assign ad orders for defined ad sales zones to the publication dates on available weekdays.

Enhancement for sort word generation

You can use this function to generate sort words according to pre-defined rules that you implement using function modules or transfer to downstream technical systems (such as pagination).

Distribute ad size between several advertisers as a percentage or an absolute value in the price-relevant unit of measure.

Convert units of measure for ad sizes

This function provides you with conversion rules that you can use according to the combination of the booking unit, business content component, design ad type and target unit of measure to define the way in which source quantities are converted to the target unit of measure.

Enhancements to checking the order deadline

This function provides you with different offsets for creating, changing and cancelling an order, for which you can define access sequences in Customizing. The order deadline is displayed as an offset in days to the publication date and as a time.

Differentiated revenue and accruals account assignment to cost accounting objects for combined booking units

You can use this function to post accrual amounts for different cost accounting objects to basic booking units even if only one specific account is involved.