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Use

You can carry out clearingfor payment directives a fter you have completed the process of posting an invoice, a payment directive, and a payment. You will then have the following situation for a vendor account, for example:

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Prerequisites

See Prerequisites for Using Payment Directives .

Features

For the FM update , you must have an alternative reconciliation accountcontaining a commitment item with financial transaction 80.

FM update scheme for payment directives:

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In order to be able to carry out the overall posting scenario (invoice - payment directive - payment - clearing of open items), you must specify the following:

  • which items are blocked for payment, so that they are not paid by either manual or automatic payment

  • how is this realized technically: there is a business transaction eventthat carries this out automatically for the user.

ProcessFlow

For postings in Financial Accounting, the following information applies:

  • The relationship of invoice to payment directive is 1 – n.

  • The open items on the vendor account are cleared via program SAPF124 (Automatic Clearing without Definition of Clearing Currency) and not by transaction FMPO itself.

  • You can customize the alternative reconciliation accountso that it is available for payment directives by using a commitment item with financial transaction 80.

  • Funds Management is updated (see update profile) as follows:

    • You can see the document update in transaction F873 Display Payment Request . This update creates FM documents with a specific value type and amount type (see above diagram).

    • This information can be found in table FMIFIIT.

  • Invoices that come from Financials and Logistics can be processed using transaction FMPO Create Payment Directive .

    Caution Caution

    Note that there is no updating of the budgetary ledger for payment directives. Furthermore, there is no availability control (AVC) for payment directives, since a payment directive does not have any budget address information.

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Activities

In order to clear your payment directives, proceed as follows:

  1. Call up programSAPF124 (transaction F.13) on Automatic Clearing via the main menu   Accounting   Financial Accounting   General Ledger   Periodic Processing   Automatic Clearing without Specification of Clearing Currency   .

  2. Read the corresponding online documentation and run the program.

  3. The payment directives have been cleared.

  4. In order to display them, see Displaying Payment Directive Data .