Media, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
Technical name of the business function |
MED_CA_1 |
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Available as of Enhancement Package |
SAP ECC 6.0 Enhancement Package 2 |
SAP software component |
IS-M 602 FI-CA 602 SAP-APPL 602 EA-APPL 602 |
SAP application component |
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Business Intelligence content |
As of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Add-On 3 SP 06 |
SAP Enterprise Services |
Not relevant |
Java software component |
Not relevant |
Portal content |
Not relevant |
Additional content available in other SAP applications |
As of SAP CRM, release 5.2 SP01 |
Business function requiring activation in addition |
Not relevant |
Use
This business function provides you with functional enhancements in the following areas of Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable:
Receivables Management
Collections Management
can be used to dun receivables using more flexible collection strategies that are tailored to the respective customer requirements. These reduce the days sales outstanding, processing time for a collection transaction and the number of write-offs.When you create an installment plan, you can update the creditworthiness of a business partner and therefore directly incorporate their payment behavior in their creditworthiness.
You can record promises to pay for due or overdue receivables that you agree with your customers during outbound collection directly in the system.
Payment Processing
In the interests of improving customer service, you can connect external cash desks to Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable and therefore make it easier for your customers to make payment for invoices.
The option of returning incorrectly assigned payments on account to the clarification account simplifies clarification processing for the payment lot and accelerates processing times for clarification
.
The payment run observes a direct debit limit that you have agreed with your customers.
External Interfaces
Information containers that you can use to send data from Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable to external systems simplify the data transfer process in distributed system landscapes.
Integration
Adding business partner items and dunning histories to the data extraction process improves system support for decisions that you make on the basis of your Business Intelligence.
Display of any information, such as the last payment of a customer, in the SAP CRM Financial Customer Care Interaction Center now also provides you with a central view of your customers in CRM.
To improve transparency, you can use balance variants in the account balance display.
Prerequisites
For more information about the Customizing settings for these functions, see the release notes.
Features
In addition to the existing totals in the account balance display, you can also combine the balance variants in Customizing.
You can extract business partner items and dunning histories to
SAP NetWeaver - Business Intelligence
(XI
) using a delta update function.You can use
Collections Management
to create groups for dunning and perform flexible dunning. You can create, manage and process collection work items. You can divide and manage these work items into worklists and generate a collection history.You can use Enterprise Services to connect external cash desks for payment processing.
The information container provides you with a tool for saving information within a specific process, such as returns processing, to send it to an external system later using a mass activity.
For each installment plan category you can define a creditworthiness value that is assigned to the related business partner.
You can display additional information about a customer in SAP CRM Financial Customer Care Interaction Center, such as the last payment of a customer.
You can use the new transaction Return Payment on Account to Clarificationto return individual items posted on account to the clarification account.
You can observe a direct debit limit during the payment run.
You can receive, accept, manage and evaluate promises to pay from customers.
In addition, new enterprise services are available in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable as interfaces to
SAP NetWeaver – Exchange Infrastructure
(XI).Some new archiving objects, such as promises to pay, external payment information and collection worklist/work item are available to free up space on your database.
For more information about BI Content for this business function, see the SAP Library for SAP NetWeaver 7.0 BI Content Add-On 3 SP06 under
SAP NetWeaver byKey Capability
BI Content
Financials
Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.
