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 SAP Deposits: Business Operations in Account Management

 

Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

EAFS_BCA_BUSOPR

Type of Business Function

Enterprise Business Function

Available as of

Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0

Technical Usage

Financial Services

ECC Software Component

EA-FINSERV 604

ECC Application Component

Bank Customer Accounts (IS-B-BCA)

Business Intelligence Content

Not relevant

SAP Enterprise Services

Not relevant

JAVA Software Component

Not relevant

Portal Content

Not relevant

Additional Content Available in Other SAP Applications

Not relevant

Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition

Not relevant

You can use this business function to improve your business processes as follows:

  • Improve and simplify processes for managing account closure

  • As an international bank or company, connect a central banking system to multiple local systems for financial accounting

  • Enhance your process for credit risk management

  • Enable flexible configuration and optimization of data retrieval for printing correspondence

  • Standardize the release procedure and define multiple levels of release

  • Improve change analysis

  • Take advantage of enhanced functions for account management

  • Increase capacity for creating bank statements for each account in a particular year

  • Simplify product definition

Prerequisites

  1. You have activated the business function set EAFS_BCA_BUSOPR in transaction SFW5.

  2. You have made the required settings in Customizing for Bank Customer Accounts (IS-B-BCA) for the following topics:

    • Account Closure

      Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Account Next navigation step Account Closure End of the navigation path

    • Multiple FI

      Start of the navigation path Basic Settings Next navigation step Bank Area Next navigation step Define Bank Area End of the navigation path

    • Reserve for Bad Debt

      Start of the navigation path Account Management Next navigation step Individual Value Adjustment Next navigation step Activate Reserve for Bad Debt (RBD) End of the navigation path

    • Release Tool Integration

      Start of the navigation path Account Management Next navigation step Release End of the navigation path

      Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Account Next navigation step Account Closure Next navigation step Release End of the navigation path

    • Integration of Correspondence and Print Workbench Tool

      Start of the navigation path Tools Next navigation step Correspondence Tool End of the navigation path

      Start of the navigation path Tools Next navigation step Print Workbench End of the navigation path

    • Change Document Viewer

      Start of the navigation path Tools Next navigation step Define Settings for the Display of Change Documents End of the navigation path

For more information, see the composite release note EAFS_BCA_BUSOPR: Business Function SAP Deposits: Business Operations in Account Management (New) (RELNBANK_BCA_604_BUSOP_M)

Features

Enhanced account closure functions

This feature provides the following:

  • Account closure simulation

  • Improved business checks and user exits provided for defining additional customer checks

  • Error logging and improved possibility for trouble shooting errors that occur during the account closure process

  • Balancing in the account closure process

  • Flexible definition of the balancing date

For more information, see Account Closure and Account Closure Checks

Integration with multiple financial accounting systems

You can now record general ledger data in different financial accounting systems (general ledgers) for each bank area, should you need to represent different business units or companies.

For more information, see Bank Area

Integration with SAP Reserve for Bad Debts

This central and standard solution enables you to create individual value adjustment accounts and accounts at the business partner aggregation level, which can be used to determine the credit standing of a business partner.

For more information, see:

Integration with correspondence tool and print workbench

This feature provides the following:

  • Standardized processes for creating correspondence

  • Flexible configuration and optimization of data retrieval

  • Flexible enhancement concept (user exits) for specific adaptation to your requirements.

  • Development of forms on a central platform that is user-friendly

  • General and standardized availability of all SAP print techniques and externally available data formats

  • Asynchronous printing of correspondence requests

  • Correspondence scenarios integrated with print workbench (account creation or change, account closure, account closure prenotification, fixing of term agreement, prenotification of term agreement maturity, calling of term agreements, bank statements, and balance notifications)

  • Display of all correspondence requests that are created for an account

  • Standard implementation of user exits

For more information see:

Integration with release tool

The release tool has been integrated with account closure, payment items, payment orders, forward orders, and standing orders, and has the following features:

  • Standard solution for release functions

  • In Customizing you can enter the agents who are responsible for release tasks

  • It is easier for you to specify whether objects need releasing

  • You can define principle of multiple control

  • Agents can release, reject, change, or display the release objects from the business workplace

  • The release workflow makes status changes to the BCA objects during their life cycle

For more information, see:

Integration with change document viewer

This feature provides you with the following:

  • Improved selection criteria that enable you to display only relevant change documents

  • Detailed view that enables you to compare the business and technical information

  • Improved presentation and printing of change details across all functions in SAP Deposits

  • Option to group related fields

  • Display of values in non-key fields for deleted records

For more information see: Change Documents

Enhanced account management functions

This feature enables the following:

  • Display of information about archived payment items

  • It is easier to define amount-dependent authorizations for payment transactions. The complex amount-dependent authorizations that are based on authorization groups have been removed.

  • Use of customer exits to save, display, and check customer-specific fields on the payment transaction screens

For more information, see Account Management and Authorization Administration

Improvements in the area of the bank statement

You can create up to 999999 bank statements for each account in a particular year.

Improvements in the area of the product configurator

You can copy and transport the product attribute hierarchy to other clients or systems included in the product configurator, and access the data in the product attribute hierarchy. You can now also set up matrix attributes from Customizing.