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 Contract Accounts A/R and A/P, 01

Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

FICAX_CI_1

Type of Business Function

Industry Business Function

Available As Of

Enhancement package 2 for SAP ERP 6.0

Technical Usage

Financials

Application Component

Industry Component Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CAX)

Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition

Business function set Contract Accounts A/R & A/P (FICAX)

Prerequisites

You have installed the following components as of each respective version:

Type of Component

Component

Is Needed Only for the Following Features

Software Component

EA-APPL 602SAP_APPL 602FI-CA 6.02FI-CAX 6.02

SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI)

SAP NetWeaver 7.0 BI Content Add-On 3 SP06

Adding business partner items and dunning histories to data extraction

SAP Enterprise Services

As of FI-CA 602, namespace http://sap.com/xi/FICA/global

Connection of external cash desks with Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable; Collections Management

Use

This business function enhances the functions available in the following areas of Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable:

  • Receivables management

    • Collections Management allows you to dun for receivables using flexible collection strategies that can be tailored to the individual customer. This reduces the days sales outstanding (DSO), the processing time for collection activities, and the number of write-offs.

    • By creating an installment plan, you can update the creditworthiness of a business partner, thereby having the partner's payment behavior directly reflected in his credit standing.

    • You can store promises to pay entered into by your customers for due or overdue receivables as part of outbound collection directly in the system.

  • Payment processing

    • To improve customer service, you can integrate external cash desks with Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, thereby making it easier for your end customers to pay their invoices.

    • If payments on account are assigned incorrectly, you can repost the amounts to the clarification account, which simplifies clarification processing for the payment lot and reduces processing time in clarification.

    • The payment run recognizes any direct debit limits you agreed on with your customers.

  • External interfaces

    Information containers, which you can use to send data from Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable to external systems, simplify data transfers in distributed system landscapes.

  • Integration

    Adding business partner items and dunning histories to data extraction assists you even more in your Business-Intelligence- based decision-making.

    More information, such as the last payment made by the customer, is available in the SAP CRM Financial Customer Care Interaction Center, providing you in CRM, as well, with a central overview of your customers.

  • As part of this improved transparency, you can also use balances variants in the account balance display.

Prerequisites

The business function set FICAX and the business function FICAX_CI_1 are active.

You use the Industry Component Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CAX).

Features

  • In addition to the existing totals in the account balance display, you can also create balances variants in Customizing.

  • You can extract business partner items and the dunning history for Business Intelligence 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 distribute these work items to worklists. You can manage the worklists and create a collection history.

  • You can use service oriented architecture 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, for sending 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 business partner.

  • You can display additional information for a customer in the CRM Financial Customer Care Interaction Center , such as the last payment of the customer.

  • Use the new transaction Return Payment on Account to Clarification to return individual items posted on account to the clarification account.

  • You can consider a direct debit limit during the payment run.

  • You can receive, accept, manage and evaluate promises to pay from customers.

  • In Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, new enterprise services are available as interfaces in SAP NetWeaver – Exchange Infrastructure (XI)

  • To ease the load on your database, you have access to new archiving objects, such as for promises to pay , external payment information , collection worklists and collection work items .

  • In FI-CA, you can also use new enterprise services as XI interfaces:

    • CashPointPaymentCreateNotification_In

    • CashPointPaymentReverseNotification_In

    • CashPointClosingDocumentNotification_In

    • CashPointOpenItemSummaryNotification_In

    • CashPointOpenItemSummaryByElementsQueryResponse_In

    • CollectionsWorkListNotification_Out

    • CollectionsWorkListItemCancellationNotification_Out

    • CollectionsWorkListItemStatusByCollectionsWorkListItemIDQueryResponse _Out

For more information, see the release note "FICAX_CI_1: Contract Accounts A/R & A/P, 01 (New)" (FICAX_602_FICAXCI1_M).