In the master record, you can allocate customers and vendors to a particular planning group for the liquidity forecast. The planning group reflects certain characteristics, behaviors and risks of the customer or vendor group. This enables you to categorize incoming and outgoing payments on the basis of the size of the amount, the type of business relation, or the probability of the cash inflow or outflow.

You define planning groups as part of system configuration.

Similar to the bank accounts within the cash position, planning groups are supplied with data from planned items (memo records) and actual FI postings. Relevant postings within MM (purchase orders) and SD (sales orders) can also be included.

You categorize these memo records by using the planning type, which is allocated, by means of its planning level, to a source symbol belonging to either the cash position or the liquidity forecast.

To differentiate the customer groups from the vendor groups, you should use a naming convention. In the above example, all customer groups begin with Ifor incoming payment, and all vendor groups begin with O for outgoing payment.