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 Master Data in SAP Collections Management

Use

You have the following processing options in SAP Collections Management :

The master data required for Collections Management is grouped in a separate business partner role based on SAP Business Partner. For information about SAP Business Partner and its concepts, see SAP Library under Start of the navigation path SAP ERP Central Component Next navigation step Cross-Application Components Next navigation step SAP Business Partner (SAP-BP). End of the navigation path

For the master data replication you can use the master data synchronization of the SAP Standard. You can also use other technology, such as an own development, for the master data synchronization. Collections Management provides a Business Add-In (BAdI) for reading the mapping information in order to be able to react to where the information is stored for the mapping of customers to business partners. You can access this BAdI in Customizing for SAP Collections Management under Start of the navigation path Integration with Accounts Receivable Next navigation step Master Data Distribution Next navigation step Mapping of Master Data End of the navigation path . In the standard, the BAdI implementations delivered access the mapping tables of the master data synchronization.

Prerequisites

You have made the settings for Master Data Distribution in Customizing for SAP Collections Management under Start of the navigation path Integration with Accounts Receivable Next navigation step Master Data Distribution End of the navigation path .

In Customizing, under Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Master Data Synchronization End of the navigation path , you have replicated the customers of your Financial Accounting to business partners and distributed them to the system for Collections Management . In this way you have saved the collection-specific information.