Creating Package Templates for The Mass Run for Cash Concentration 

Use

The report RBCA_CCON_CREATE_PP_PACK is a method of the business object Master Contract.

You can use this report to create package templates, whereby you group packages into a package template that is used by the system in a subsequent mass run for cash concentration. This enables you to separate the package creation and package processing, which means faster processing during end-of-day processing.

If the mass run for the cash concentration is completed without errors, the system deletes the used package template automatically. Otherwise, the package template is retained, and you can use it again to restart the mass run for the cash concentration.

For more information about the report, see the report documentation in the system by choosing .

When package templates are created, dependent master contracts are grouped into packages. Independent master contracts are assigned a separate package. Master contracts depend on each other if an account is in more than one master contract, and these must be processed in one package during cash concentration so that the parallel processes do not lock each other.

There are two options for creating packages:

·        You create package templates before the parallelized mass run for the cash concentration. You run two reports: The run date for the mass run with a package template is the same as that of the report that you used for creating the package templates.

·        You create packages in series at the beginning of the parallelized mass run for the cash concentration. You run one report only: Start Mass Run Without Package Template. In this case, a package template is not available for parallel processing. The packages required are initially created in the parallelized cash concentration, and then processed.

For more information on the mass run for Cash Concentration, see Cash Concentration and Run Cash Concentration.

Any changes to the master data of a master contract such as reassigning an account to another master contract would lead to errors in a created package template. Master contracts with shared accounts would not be in one package. To avoid this, you make this kind of change only on or after the current posting date of the payment transaction. These changes do not affect package templates that already exist because the run date must be before the posting date of the payment transaction when they are created, and either on or before the posting date of the end-of-day processing.

Integration

The report can be integrated into the chain of processes in the Account Management (FS-AM) mass processing. For more information, see the following documentation:

·        The Customizing for Account Management (FS-AM) under End-of-Day Processing ® Define Job Nets for End-of-Day Processing.

·        Process Flow of End-of-Day Processing