SAP SD Credit Management How To Do Configuration For Credit Management

Credit and risk management takes place in the credit control area. According to your corporate requirements, you can implement credit management that is centralized, decentralized, or somewhere in between.

An organizational unit that represents the area where customer credit is awarded and monitored. This organizational unit can either be a single or several company codes, if credit control is performed across several company codes. One credit control area contains credit control information for each customer.

For example, if your credit management is centralized, you can define one credit control area for all of your company codes.

If, on the other hand, your credit policy requires decentralized credit management, you can define credit control areas for each company code or each group of company codes.

Credit limits and credit exposure are managed at both credit control area and customer level. You set up credit control areas and other data related to credit management in Customizing for Financial Accounting. The implementation guide is under Enterprise Structure -> Definition or Assignment -> Financial Accounting and then Maintain credit control area. You assign customers to specific credit control areas and specify the appropriate credit limits in the customer master record.

Tips by : Kapilaa

Settings for determining the credit control area of a document. The settings of items 1 - 4 are taken into account according to their priority. The credit control area found is stored in field VBAK-KKBER.

1. Transaction OB38
Check which credit control area is assigned to the company code.
Company code:
Credit control area:

2. Transaction OVFL
Check which credit control area is assigned to the sales area.
Sales area:
Credit control area:

3. Transaction XD02 or VD02
Check which credit control area is assigned to the payer.
Payer:
Credit control area:

4. Transaction SE37
Is user exit EXIT_SAPV45K_001 being used?

5. Transaction OBZK
For the settings under items 2 - 4, field "All company codes" must be marked in Transaction
OB45, or the credit control area must be entered under the relevant company code in table
T001CM of the credit control areas allowed.
Company code:
Credit control areas allowed:

6. Settings for the credit checks

7. Transaction OVAK
Which settings do exist for the sales document type used?
Sales document:
Check credit:
Credit group:

8. Transaction OVAD
Which settings do exist for the delivery type used?
Delivery type:
Credit group for delivery:
Credit group for goods issue:

9. Transaction OB01
Credit management/Change risk category
Definition of the risk category for each credit control area. This risk category can be
assigned to a credit account by using Transaction FD32.

10. Transaction OVA8
Here, the individual credit checks for key fields
o credit control area
o risk category
o credit group are set. Take these key fields from the above settings and go to the detail
screen. In particular, check whether fields "Reaction" and "Status/block" are set
correctly. To carry out follow-up actions in case of a credit block, the credit check
status must be set (field "Status/block").

11. Transaction FD32
Credit master data for the payer of the relevant document.
Credit account:
Credit limit:
Risk category:
Currency:

12. Settings for updating the credit values Update of the credit values is required for the limit
check (static or dynamic credit limit check).

13. Transaction OVA7
Update of the credit value is active for the corresponding item type if the check box is marked. This field corresponds to
field "Active receivable" in Transaction VOV7.
Item type:
Active receivable:

14. Transaction V/08, Pricing
In the pricing procedure used for pricing, subtotal "A" must be entered in a line for
determining the credit value (mark the pricing procedure and doubleclick on "Control").
Usually, the net value plus taxes is used. This way the system is determined to use this
subtotal for credit pricing. The credit price is stored in field VBAP-CMPRE and used for
update and credit check.
You can find the used pricing procedure of the order under "Item -> Condition -> Analysis".
Pricing procedure:
Line with subtotal = 'A':

15. Transaction OB45
Which update group (field "Update") do you use in the relevant credit control area? The
default setting is "12". If you use another update group, check whether this is fine with
you. If you open an OSS message, please tell us the alternative update group.
Credit control area:
Update:

16. Transaction OMO1
Which kind of update did you choose for structure S066?
In any case, "Synchronous update (1)" has to be chosen as the kind of update.
All other settings will lead to errors.

SAP SD Credit Management MRP block for Credit limit attained Customers

How to block the requirement (MD04) generated by the item category in a sales order when the customer has attained the credit limit? The MRP requirements still appear even though the schedule is zero.

You should try and use one of the standard requirements.

See in transaction "VOFM".

Under Requirements / Subsequent Functions / Reqs.Availablity.

Try using routine 103, you may have to tweak if it doesn't work exactly as you'd like.

For example, you can write a routine 903 because you only wanted this reaction for certain business units. Irregardless, using a routine similar to this will prevent the requirement from appearing in MD04 for orders blocked on credit.

Code:
DATA: W_ZSDCRD TYPE ZSD_CREDITBLCK.
DATA: W_CMGST LIKE VBUK-CMGST.

SELECT SINGLE * INTO W_ZSDCRD
FROM ZSD_CREDITBLCK
WHERE KKBER = VBAK-KKBER
AND CTLPC = VBAK-CTLPC.

IF SY-SUBRC = 0 AND VBUK-CMGST CA 'B'.

IMPORT VBUK-CMGST TO W_CMGST FROM MEMORY ID 'CREDIT'.

IF W_CMGST = SPACE.
MESSAGE I706(Z1).
EXPORT VBUK-CMGST TO MEMORY ID 'CREDIT'.
ENDIF.

*} REPLACE
*{ INSERT DEVK966908 1

*} INSERT
* Read the subsequent function information for the message
PERFORM FOFUN_TEXT_READ USING GL_FOFUN
CHANGING FOFUN_TEXT.
MESSAGE ID 'V1' TYPE 'E' NUMBER '849'
WITH FOFUN_TEXT
RAISING ERROR.
*{ INSERT DEVK966908 2

*} INSERT
ENDIF.
ENDFORM.

SAP SD Credit Management Credit Mgmt Dynamic checking

-----Original Message-----
Subject: Credit Mgmt Dynamic checking
From: Richard Dragani

Hi credit experts,

Does anyone know how I can automatically re-execute a dynamic credit check a few days prior to shipment for future dated sales orders. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Rich Dragani

-----Reply Message-----
Subject: Re: LOG: Credit Mgmt Dynamic checking
From: Swami Subramanyan

Program RVKRED08? Or manually execute function module SD_ORDER_CREDIT_RECHECK.

Regards
Swami

-----Reply Message-----
Subject: Re: Credit Mgmt Dynamic checking
From: Leslie Paolucci

We check credit at the time of the delivery (at delivery creation and before picking) and use the blocked sales doc process/list to release them. This can be set up in customizing under risk management-> credit management.

-----End of Reply Message-----

SAP SD Credit Management Difference Between Simple and Automatic Credit Check Types

Explain in detail difference between simple and automatic credit check types. In automatic check, difference between static and dynamic checks.

SIMPLE CREDIT CHECK : Tr.Code - FD32

It Considers the Doc.Value + Open Items.

Doc.Value : Sales Order Has been saved but not delivered

Open Item : Sales Order has been saved , Delivered, Billed & Transfered to FI, but not received the payment from the customer.

Eg: Customer Credit Limit is Rs.1,00,000/-
Suppose Doc.Value + Open Item Value is Rs.1,10,000/-

Here credit limit exceeds then system reacts.

Options : A) Warning Message
B) Error Message (Sales Order won't be saved)
C) Error Message with Delivery Block

AUTOMATIC CREDIT CHECK : Give extra credit facilities to the particular customer.

STATIC CREDIT LIMIT DETERMINATION :Checking Group + Risk Catageory + Credit Control Area.

A) Credit Checking Groups : Types of Checking Groups.

01) Sales
02) Deliveries
03) Goods Issue
At all the above 3 levels orders can be blocked.

B) Risk Catageory : Based on the risk catageories company decide how much credit has to give to the customer.

HIGH RISK (0001) : LOW CREDIT
LOW RISK (0002) : MORE CREDIT
MEDIUM RISK(0003) : Average Credit

Static Credit Check it checks all these doc value & check with the credit limit

1) Open Doc.Value / Sales Order Value : Which is save but not delievered

2) Open Delivery Doc.Value : Which is delivered but not billed

3) Open Billing Doc.Value : Which is billed but not posted to FI

4) Open Item : Which is transfered to FI but not received from the customer.

DYNAMIC CREDIT CHECK : 1) Open Doc
2) Open Delivery
3) Open Billing
4) Open Items
5) Horizon Period = Eg.3Months

Here the System will not consider the above 1,2,3& 4 values for the lost 3 months

Then assign the Sales Doc & Del Documents.

Sales Doc.Type(OR) + credit Check(0) + Credit Group (01)

Credit Limit Check for Delivery Type : Del.Type (LF) + Del Credit
Group (02) + Goods Issue Credit Group (03)

SAP SD Credit Management Sales value field in not getting updated after creating the billing

----Original Message-----
Subject: Sales value field in not getting updated after creating the billing

we are on 4.6b. we are going for credit management but facing one problem. in fd32-
customer credit management change - the sales value feild in not getting updated after
creating the billing.
eg. when i create the order - the order value get updated in the sales value in fd32. after
creating the delivery - that value remains same in the feild of sales value. but when i am
going for billing (delivery related), the bill value is appearing in 'receivables' but the amount
in 'sales value' is not getting reduced. because of this the credit exposure is increasing
continuously.
update group for corrosponding credit ctrl area is 12. also the item is mark for credit
update.
can anyone tell the missing link?
thanking in advance

-----Reply Message-----
Subject: RE: Sales value field in not getting updated after creating the billing

Hi,

You need to check couple of settings like:

1. Your customer should be assigned the credit control area.

2. In your Item Category Credit should be active.

Regards,

-----Reply Message-----
Subject: RE: Sales value field in not getting updated after creating the billing

customer is assign to concorn CCA and item category is mark for credit active

-----Reply Message-----
Subject: RE: Sales value field in not getting updated after creating the billing

Hi,

Check the credit update group in the transaction OB45. The credit update group controls
when the values of open sales orders, deliveries and billing documents are updated. It
should be '000012'.

Further also refer to the OSS note 18613.

Have fun

SAP SD Credit Management Set Up for Credit Card Payment Processing

Given below is the set up for credit card payment processing:

Set Up Credit Control Areas:

Define Credit Control Area
Transaction: OB45
Tables: T014
Action: Define a credit control area and its associated currency. The Update Group should be ‘00012’. This entry is required so the sales order will calculate the value to authorize

Assign Company Code to Credit Control Area
Transaction: OB38
Tables: T001
Action: Assign a default credit control area for each company code

Define Permitted Credit Control Area for a Company
Code
Transaction:
Tables: T001CM
Action: For each company code enter every credit control area that can be used

Identify Credit Price
Transaction: V/08
Tables: T683S
Action: Towards the end of the pricing procedure, after all pricing and tax determination, create a subtotal line to store the value of the price plus any sales tax. Make the following entries:
Sub to: “A”
Reqt: “2”
AltCTy: “4”

Automatic Credit Checking
Transaction: OVA8
Tables: T691F
Action: Select each combination of credit control areas, risk categories and document types for which credit checking should be bypassed. You need to mark the field “no Credit Check” with the valid number for sales documents.

Set Up Payment Guarantees

Define Forms of Payment Guarantee
Transaction: OVFD
Tables: T691K
Action: R/3 is delivered with form “02” defined for payment cards. Other than the descriptor, the only other entry should be “3” in the column labeled “PymtGuaCat”

Define Payment Guarantee Procedure
Transaction:
Tables: T691M/T691O
Action: Define a procedure and a description.
Forms of Payment Guarantee and make the following entries Sequential Number “1”
Payment Guarantee Form “02”
Routine Number “0” Routine Number can be used to validate payment card presence.

Define Customer Payment Guarantee Flag
Transaction:
Tables: T691P
Action: Define a flag to be stored in table.
Create Customer Payment Guarantee = “Payment Card Payment Cards (All Customers can use Payment Cards)”.

Define Sales Document Payment Guarantee Flag
Transaction:
Tables: T691R
Action: Define the flag that will be associated with sales document types that are relevant for payment cards

Assign Sales Document Payment Guarantee Flag
Transaction:
Tables: TVAK
Action: Assign the document flag type the sales documents types that are relevant for payment cards.

Determine Payment Guarantee Procedure
Transaction: OVFJ
Tables: T691U
Action: Combine the Customer flag and the sales document flag to derive the payment guarantee procedure

Payment Card Configuration

Define Card Types
Transaction:
Tables: TVCIN
Action: Create the different card types plus the routine that validates the card for length and prefix (etc…)
Visa , Mastercard, American Express, and Discover
Create the following entries for each payment card
AMEX American Express ZCCARD_CHECK_AMEX Month
DC Discover Card ZCCARD_CHECK_DC Month*****
MC Mastercard ZCCARD_CHECK_MC Month
VISA Visa ZCCARD_CHECK_VISA Month

The Routines can be created based on the original routines delivered by SAP.

*****SAP does not deliver a card check for Discover Card. We created our own routine.

Define Card Categories
Transaction:
Tables: TVCTY
Action: Define the card category to determine if a
payment card is a credit card or a procurement card.
Create the following two entries
Cat Description One Card Additional Data
CC Credit Cards No-check No-check
PC Procurement Cards No-check Check

Determine Card Categories
Transaction:
Tables: TVCTD
Action: For each card category map the account number range to a card category. Multiple ranges are possible for each card category or a masking technique can be used. Get the card number ranges from user community. Below is just a sample of what I am aware are the different types of cards.

Visa Credit Expires in 7 days.
400000 405500
405505 405549
405555 415927
415929 424603
424606 427532
427534 428799
428900 471699
471700 499999
Visa Procurement Expires in 7 days.
405501 405504
405550 405554
415928 415928
424604 424605
427533 427533
428800 428899
Mastercard Credit Expires in 30 days
500000 540499
540600 554999
557000 599999
Mastercard Procurement Expires in 30 days
540500 540599
555000 556999

American Express Credit Expires in 30 days
340000 349999
370000 379999

Discover Card Credit Expires in 30 days
601100 601199

Set Sales Documents to accept Payment Card Information Transaction:
Tables: TVAK
Action: Review the listing of Sales Document types and enter “03” in the column labeled “PT” for each type which can accept a payment card

Configuration for Authorization Request

Maintain Authorization Requirements
Transaction: OV9A
Tables: TFRM
Action: Define and activate the abap requirement that determines when an authorization is sent. Note that the following tables are available to be used in the abap requirement (VBAK, VBAP, VBKD, VBUK, and VBUP).

Define Checking Group
Transaction:
Tables: CCPGA
Action: Define a checking group and enter the
description. Then follow the below guidelines for the remaining fields to be filled.
AuthReq Routine 901 is set here.
PreAu If checked R/3 will request an authorization for a .01 and the authorization will be flagged as such. (Insight does not use pre-authorization check).
A horizon This is the days in the future SAP will use to determine the value to authorize
(Insight does not use auth horizon period).
Valid You will get warning message if the payment card is expiring within 30 days of order entry date.

Assign Checking Group to Sales Document
Transaction:
Tables: TVAK
Action: Assign the checking group to the sales order types relevant for payment cards

Define Authorization Validity Periods
Transaction:
Tables: TVCIN
Action: For each card type enter the authorization validity period in days.

AMEX American Express 30
DC Discover card 30
MC Master card 30
VISA Visa 7

Configuration for clearing houses

Create new General Ledger Accounts
Transaction: FS01
Tables:
Action: Two General Ledger accounts need to be created for each payment card type. One for A/R reconciliation purposes and one for credit card clearing.

Maintain Condition Types
Transaction: OV85
Tables: T685
Action: Define a condition type for account determination and assign it to access sequence “A001”

Define account determination procedure
Transaction: OV86
Tables: T683 / T683S
Action: Define procedure name and select the procedure for control. Enter the condition type defined in the previous step.

Assign account determination procedure
Transaction:
Tables:
Action: Determine which billing type we are using for payment card process.

Authorization and Settlement Control

Transaction:
Tables: TCCAA
Action: Define the general ledger accounts for reconciliation and clearing and assign the function modules for authorization and settlement along with the proper RFC destinations for each.

Enter Merchant ID’s
Transaction:
Tables: TCCM
Action: Create the merchant id’s that the company uses to process payment cards

Assign merchant id’s
Transaction:
Tables: TCCAA
Action: Enter the merchant id’s with each clearinghouse account

SD Credit Management Dunning Process In Credit Management

Explain about dunning process in credit management?

Let me explain in simple terms:

1) You have a Customer which you had felt, he is doing good business and supplied material on Credit of 45 days.

2) Since this customer is good as you felt, you have not managed Credit Checks as well. So, he had comfortably reached to the fullest credit (or even more) which you can afford for any customer.

3) One fine day you got realised that, there is very bad debt with this customer and need to recover from him and till then, there will be no further supply to the customer.

4) Your company's legal department has laid a policy that, inorder to recover any bad debts, like:
a) We will send a normal payment reminder.
b) In case customer doesnt respond, we will send at least further reminder (dunning notice) may be 9 times
(9 reminders) (Dunning level) and what intervels of time (dunning frequency)
c) Still if the customer doesnt resopond for the reminders, you will file a law suit against the customer for recovering
the Payments.
d) Finally, after getting veridict, you may proceed for auction of his property or as per the order for Law.

Now in SAP, the definition of Dunning procedure is a pre-defined procedure specifying how customers or vendors are dunned.

For each procedure, the user defines
- Number of dunning levels
- Dunning frequency
- Amount limits
- Texts for the dunning notices

In SAP, you will maintain the Dunning Procedure at customer master. Referring to this your SD Team / FI Team (user team) will effect Dunning

PS: You might remembered the dunning procedure laid by Relaince Mobile, sometime back, sending street rowdies for recovering the bad debts from users. That is dunning. Remember Reliance, you will not forget dunning forever.

SD Dunning Process In Credit Management

Let me explain in simple terms:

1) You have a Customer which you had felt, he is doing good business and supplied material on Credit of 45 days.

2) Since this customer is good as you felt, you have not managed Credit Checks as well. So, he had comfortably reached to the fullest credit (or even more) which you can afford for any customer.

3) One fine day you got realised that, there is very bad debt with this customer and need to recover from him and till then, there will be no further supply to the customer.

4) Your company's legal department has laid a policy that, inorder to recover any bad debts, like:
a) We will send a normal payment reminder.
b) In case customer doesnt respond, we will send at least further reminder (dunning notice) may be 9 times
(9 reminders) (Dunning level) and what intervels of time (dunning frequency)
c) Still if the customer doesnt resopond for the reminders, you will file a law suit against the customer for recovering
the Payments.
d) Finally, after getting veridict, you may proceed for auction of his property or as per the order for Law.

Now in SAP, the definition of Dunning procedure is a pre-defined procedure specifying how customers or vendors are dunned.

For each procedure, the user defines
- Number of dunning levels
- Dunning frequency
- Amount limits
- Texts for the dunning notices

In SAP, you will maintain the Dunning Procedure at customer master. Referring to this your SD Team / FI Team (user team) will effect Dunning

PS: You might remembered the dunning procedure laid by Relaince Mobile, sometime back, sending street rowdies for recovering the bad debts from users. That is dunning. Remember Reliance, you will not forget dunning forever

The "SD Packing Process" with an Example

You created a order for a material(R-1160 - hard disks) for a qty - 120 pieces.

You need to create a delivery and
A)pack 40 pieces each of the material are grouped together into larger cardboard boxes (PK-100 - shipping/packing material) and
B)these 3 cardboard boxes are put into pallet (PK-095).

Solution:
A)Packing 40 pieces each of material (40 x 3 = 120 pieces)

1)Goto [VL02N] to change the delivery, you already created.
Or you can do the following steps while you are creating a delivery also.
2)Go to "pack" icon.
3)In the upper section, enter the "packing material" (PK-100)
4)In the lower section, change the "partial quantity" to 40 of material R-1160.
5)Select both the lines of upper section and lower section and click the green ok. It generates a shipping unit/handling unit number.
6)Now, select both lines of upper & lower section & click the button "per part. qty" (New HU per part qty of material)
Check: click "General Overview" icon to see whether it packed 40 pieces of material in 3 cartons.

B)Packing all 3 cartons in one big carton(PK-095)

1) from above screen, click "pack HUs" (pack shipping unit)
2)enter the packaging material (PK-095) in the upper section and select this line.
3)select 3 lines of PK-100 in lower section since you want to pack them in PK-095.
4)selecting both lines, click "pack" icon.
5)Now all the 3 cartons(PK-100 with 40 pieces each of material) are packed in one big carton (PK-095).
Check: "General overview" icon.

Then "save" the delivery

Sales Order Management Transactions

GENERAL ORDER MANAGEMENT
Reviewing Document Flow VA03
Searching for a Customer Sales Order by Serial Number ZV11
Order Inquiry ZV33

SALES ORDER PROCESSING
Creating Sales Order VA01
Maintaining a Sales Order VA02
Displaying a Sales Order VA03
Releasing an Order or Delivery from Credit Hold: Non-Flooring VKM1
Releasing an Order or Delivery from Flooring Hold ZKM1
Manually Pre-authorizing Blocked Credit Card Orders Z.14
Display List of RMAs by Customer VA05
Confirm RMA Goods Receipt VL02
Generate list of open return orders for deletion VA05
Display Customer returns eligibility MCSI
Removing a Billing Block (Approving Credit/Debit Requests) V.23

SD Display/change data in credit management

When you process blocked Sales & Distribution (SD) documents (VKM1), the accounting clerk has only the authorization for displaying (and not for changing) certain FI credit management data (authorization objects F_KNKA_MAN, F_KNKA_KKB). However, the Transaction 'Customer Credit Management Change' (FD32) is always called up via the menu option 'Environment'. Since the accounting clerk only has the authorization for displaying certain data, the corresponding error message is also generated correctly. For the display of data only, you must therefore always use a new mode for calling up the Transaction 'Customer Credit Management Display' (FD33).

Solution
If an accounting clerk has only the authorization for displaying credit management data (authorization objects F_KNKA_MAN, F_KNKA_KKB), after calling Transaction FD32 the system changes automatically from 'Blocked Sales & Distribution (SD) documents list' to the display Transaction FD33. As a result, a new mode becomes unnecessary. This solution only makes sense if the authorizations in the credit management Transactions (FD32, FD33) were restricted by the mentioned authorization objects. If a user has no authorization for Transaction FD32 the source code changes will not be successful, because the authorization check for a certain transaction (authorization object S_TCODE) is not performed in the called transaction, and therefore no reaction from the called transaction (like automatic calling up of the display transaction) can be expected.
We recommend to solve the problem as follows: You should not remove the authorization for Transaction FD32 from users, but restrict the authorizations in Transaction FD32 through usage of the mentioned authorization objects.