Technical Name of Business Function | ISR_APPL_AGENCY_5 |
Type of Business Function | Enterprise Business Function |
Available From | SAP enhancement package 6 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Technical Usage | Central Application |
Application Component |
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Required Business Function | Trade, Agency Business( |
You can use this business function to implement new business models for agency business processes, support allocation of any types of expenses, improve cost transparency, and increase process flexibility and efficiency. Furthermore, a new B2B outbound service allows customers and partners to leverage enterprise service-oriented architecture for the exchange of invoices. The following further enhancements in agency business processes increase usability in the modeling of business processes through a unified reporting architecture that enables greater flexibility for end users.
Incoterms
Partner Determination Within Energy Business
ALE Monitor for IDocs from the Agency Business Application
Enterprise Services
Settle Invoice Requests for Energy Business without SD Processing
Deviating Exchange Rate in Customer Company Code
The new features of this business function are enhancements of the Agency Business component. Agency Business is integrated in SAP’s core application SAP ERP Central Component 6.0 (SAP ECC 6.0) and can be implemented in conjunction with other SAP Industry Add-ons, such as SAP Retail.
You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:
Type of Component | Component | Required for the Following Features Only |
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Software Component |
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SAP Enterprise Services | SAP APPL 606 EA_RETAIL 606 EA_GLTRADE 606
| Single Settlement Request Vendor Billing Documents Expense Settlement Customer Settlement EA-RETAIL 606 and EA_GLTRADE 606 are optional components which have to be installed if related business function features are used. |
To use Incoterms in agency documents, you must do the following:
Maintain condition records for condition types, for example, in
.Activate Incoterms by selecting the Incoterms Active
checkbox under Incoterms in Customizing for .
To use partner determination within energy business, you define settings in Customizing for
.To use Enterprise Services, you have activated the SAP_APPL 606 and EA_RETAIL 606 components. In the case of the specific chargeback process, where invoices are sent out as compensation requests towards the supplier, the EA_GLTRADE 606 component also has to be activated.
To settle invoice requests for energy business without SD processing, you have defined settings in Customizing for Logistics - General in the following locations:
Deviating Exchange Rate in Customer Company Code
To use this new feature, you must make settings in Customizing for
.The following features are available within the Trade, Agency Business 5
business function:
Incoterms are automatically copied from the trading contract or its follow-on documents to agency documents, which are created as expense documents. A manual entry or change of Incoterms in the agency documents is also supported.
Based on a new Customizing setting, Agency Business applications provide a new feature to maintain partner data on header and on item level of a document. If this new feature is activated for a certain billing type, the partner data can be copied from the vendor and customer master data automatically if defined in Customizing, and you can maintain the partner data manually. The partner data can be copied to the follow-on documents.
The ALE Monitor enhances the SAP Standard IDoc transaction for Agency Business IDocs for better monitoring, selection, filtering, comparison and testing of IDocs - either in a productive or non-productive environment.
These services are targeted to enable the exchange of supplier and customer invoices of B2B and A2A processes.
With Contract Settlement for Energy Business, you can run an integrated commodity management scenario to trade power, gas, and similar energy products that do not require dedicated logistics follow-on processing. In addition, you can use a third-party application optimized for front- and mid-office activities to handle contracts and related settlement data, while using Global Trade Management for contract settlement and invoicing. SOA A2A services are used for the communication between the applications within a company. This enables streamlined contract settlement of invoice requests in energy business without the need for dedicated logistics follow-on processing.
In cross-company business, it is possible that the currency of the customer company code deviates from the currency of the vendor company code. In the single settlement request document, you can use the Deviating Exchange Rate in Customer Company Code
field on header level to specify an exchange rate for the deviating currencies
On item detail level, a new tab screen is provided to maintain customer account assignment. It is possible to assign separate profit center, and cost elements to the customer instead of using the ones from the vendor side. This works only in combination with the class-based accounting interface that can be set in the billing type and has been available since EhP4.
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