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 Trade, Agency Business 5

 

Technical Data

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

Agency Business(LO-AB)

Required Business Function

Trade, Agency Business(ISR_RET_AGENCY_4)

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

Integration

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.

Prerequisites

  • You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:

    Type of Component

    Component

    Required for the Following Features Only

    Software Component

    SAP_APPL 606

    SAP Enterprise Services

    SAP APPL 606

    EA_RETAIL 606

    EA_GLTRADE 606

    http://sap.com/xi/APPL/Global2

    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 Start of the navigation path SAP Menu Next navigation step Logistics Next navigation step Materials Management Next navigation step Purchasing Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Conditions End of the navigation path.

    • Activate Incoterms by selecting the Incoterms Active checkbox under Incoterms in Customizing for Start of the navigation path Logistics – General Next navigation step Agency Business Next navigation step Billing Next navigation step Billing Document Types End of the navigation path.

  • To use partner determination within energy business, you define settings in Customizing for Start of the navigation path Logistics - General Next navigation step Agency Business Next navigation step Basic Settings Next navigation step Determine Partner Determination End of the navigation path.

  • 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:

    • Start of the navigation path Agency Business Next navigation step Basic Settings Next navigation step Copy Control End of the navigation path

    • Start of the navigation path Agency Business Next navigation step Payment Next navigation step Payment Types End of the navigation path

  • Deviating Exchange Rate in Customer Company Code

    To use this new feature, you must make settings in Customizing for Start of the navigation path Agency Business Next navigation step Payment Next navigation step Payment Types End of the navigation path.

Features

The following features are available within the Trade, Agency Business 5 business function:

Incoterms

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.

Partner Determination Within Energy Business

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.

ALE Monitor for IDocs from the Agency Business Application

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.

Enterprise Services

These services are targeted to enable the exchange of supplier and customer invoices of B2B and A2A processes.

Settle Invoice Requests for Energy Business without SD Processing

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.

Deviating Exchange Rate in Customer Company Code

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.

Example

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