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Function documentationInternal Settlement

 

You can send an internal settlement document from an internal organization in your company to another internal organization to recover costs incurred in delivering transportation services for a forwarding order (see Internal Settlement Management).

You can also create internal settlement documents to settle the cost of providing internal resources for freight orders (see Internal Settlement for Resources).

In the standard internal settlement process, the internal settlement is between the purchasing organization of the freight order and the sales organization of the forwarding order. In the internal settlement process for resources, the settlement is between the organizations that own the resources that are used to execute the order and the purchasing organization of the freight order.

Prerequisites

  • You have specified a forwarding settlement document type for internal settlement documents in Customizing for Transportation Management. For more information, see Start of the navigation path Settlement Next navigation step Forwarding Settlement Next navigation step Define Forwarding Settlement Document Types End of the navigation path.

  • You have specified the general prerequisites for calculating charges. For more information, see Charge Calculation.

  • You have specified the relevant internal settlement profiles and calculation profiles. The process for specifying an internal settlement profile and a calculation profile for an internal settlement document is similar to the process for specifying a forwarding settlement profile and a calculation profile for a forwarding settlement document. For more information, see the prerequisites for settlement profiles and calculation profiles in Forwarding Settlement.

  • You have assigned a sales organization unit (cost sender organization) in SAP TM to an internal order or cost center in SAP ERP for cost distribution. For more information, see Customizing for SAP ERP under Start of the navigation path Integration with Other mySAP.com Components Next navigation step Transportation Management Next navigation step Invoice Integration Next navigation step Mapping for Cost Distribution Next navigation step Assign TM Sales Org. Unit to Internal Order/Cost Center End of the navigation path.

  • You have assigned a purchasing organization unit (cost receiver organization) in SAP TM to an internal order or cost center account in SAP ERP for cost distribution. For more information, see Customizing for SAP ERP under Start of the navigation path Integration with Other mySAP.com Components Next navigation step Transportation Management Next navigation step Invoice Integration Next navigation step Invoicing Next navigation step Mapping of Organizational Units Next navigation step Assign TM Purchase Org. Unit to Internal Order/Cost Center End of the navigation path.

  • By default, the SAP TM system creates an intercompany settlement document for organizations that belong to different company codes. If you want to use an intracompany settlement for a company organization, you must select the Intracompany Settlement checkbox in the Org. Data tab page of the relevant organization structure. You can access the structure using transaction PPOCE.

  • For intercompany settlements, you have specified the following settings in Customizing for SAP ERP:

    • Category and subcategory codes

    • Transportation charge types

    You have also assigned the transportation charge types and mapped organizational units. For more information, see Start of the navigation path Integration with Other mySAP.com Components Next navigation step Transportation Management Next navigation step Invoice Integration Next navigation step Billing End of the navigation path.

  • For intracompany settlements, you have mapped the SAP TM charge types to the SAP ERP primary cost elements. For more information, see Start of the navigation path Integration with Other mySAP.com Components Next navigation step Transportation Management Next navigation step Invoice Integration Next navigation step Billing Next navigation step Intracompany Settlement Next navigation step Assign Transportation Charges to Cost Elements End of the navigation path.

Features

Intercompany Settlements

When you transfer the internal settlement document to SAP ERP, the SAP ERP system creates an SD billing document.

Intracompany Settlements

When you transfer the settlement document, the SAP ERP system does not create an SD billing document. Instead it reposts the primary costs to an internal order or cost center. The SAP TM system performs the following tasks:

  • Displays the accounting document in the document flow

  • Uses internal settlements to move the cost of the forwarding order that contains the freight order or freight booking from the purchasing organization to the sales organization

More Information

For information about how SAP ERP handles internal settlements, see SAP Library for SAP ERP on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/erpInformation published on SAP site. In SAP Library, choose Start of the navigation path SAP ERP Enhancement Packages Next navigation step ERP Central Component Enhancement Package 5 Next navigation step SAP ERP Central Component Next navigation step Logistics Next navigation step Logistics - General (LO) Next navigation step Integration of SAP ERP with SAP Transportation Management End of the navigation path.