SAP ABAP IMG Activity ISMAM_CRED_MGMT_MAIN (Define Automatic Credit Control)
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IMG Activity
ID ISMAM_CRED_MGMT_MAIN Define Automatic Credit Control  
Transaction Code S_KK4_74001340   IMG Activity: ISMAM_CRED_MGMT_MAIN 
Created on 19990816    
Customizing Attributes ISMAM_CRED_MGMT_MAIN   Define Automatic Credit Control 
Customizing Activity ISMAM_CRED_MGMT_MAIN   Define Automatic Credit Control 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name ISMAM_CRED_MGMT_MAIN    

The automatic credit check can take various factors into account and can be run at various stages during order processing. In this step you can define your own credit checks to accomodate the requirements you have with regard to credit management.

An automatic credit check can be determined for each combination using the following information

  • Credit control area
  • Risk category (characteristic that you use to classify your customers with regard to their credit risk that is defined in FI Customizing).
  • Credit group

    Example

    A credit check can be defined for a particular credit control area and for all orders where the customer has the risk category 2 (RC2).

You have the option of defining system responses for the respective credit checks (e.g. warning)

If you define your own credit checks, you must perform the following tasks:

  • Determine the type of check
  • Determine the range of the check
  • Determine system response to the check
  • Assign credit control areas
  • Define and assign risk categories as necessary
  • Assign a credit group
  • Assign a description to the credit check

Types of credit check

The following types of credit checks can be performed:

  • Static credit limit check

    Credit assignment is dependent on the overall value of the open orders and their open items.

  • Dynamic credit check

    The dynamic check combines a static check of all open items and billing documents with a dynamic check of all open order values. The value obtained from the checks is cumulated for the publication date in the information structure "S066" in time units or periods (day, week, month) that can be selected as required.

    When defining the credit check, you should specify a certain number of periods from which a date in the future is produced (according to the period selected, e.g. 10 days, 2 months). This ensures that orders that are further into the future are not considered when determining credit exposure.

    The total from the static and dynamic part of the credit check cannot exceed the credit limit granted.

  • Credit check on the basis of the maximum document value

    The order value cannot exceed a particular value that is defined during the credit check. This value is recorded in the currency for the credit control area. This check is particuarly recommended if the credit limit for new customers has not yet been determined. This check can be controlled explicity using a risk category reserved for new customers.

  • Credit check during the next internal check

    The credit check is triggered automatically on a particular date. All orders that have been entered up to this point are considered as uncritical.

  • Credit check on the basis of overdue open items

    The relationship between open items that are overdue by more than a certain number of days and the customer balance should not exceed a particular percentage rate.

  • Credit check on the basis of the oldest open item

    The oldest open item can only be overdue by a particular number of days.

  • Credit check against maximum admissible dunning levels

    The customer dunning level must not exceed a specific highest level.

  • Individual customer credit checks

    If additional checks that vary from the standard are to be performed, you can define your own checks in the respective user exits (LVKMPTZZ and LVKMPFZ1).

Requirements

You can enter a requirement number in the No available check field that you use to control when no credit checks are to be performed. You can deactivate all checks or individual checks only. This enables you to control for individual cases the circumstances in which no credit-relevant transactions exist and a new credit check is not to be performed.
Requirements are stored using routines that can be displayed and edited using transaction VOFM.

Checks in Financial Accounting /old A/R summary

Distributed systems (central Financial Accounting, decentralized sales processing) require FI data from the central system for the credit check (please also refer to the Credit management in distributed systems release note). The following data is required for a check at payer or credit management account level: open items total, detailed information about open items (e.g. oldest open item), highest dunning level etc. The credit vector is used to collect FI data in a central system and send this to a decentralized sales computer and evaluate it using the distribution functions. The credit vector represents compressed FI information for credit checks.

Under the heading "Checks in Financial Accounting /old A/R summary", you can specify the admissible age limit for the credit vector in the Permitted days and Permitted hours fields. You can also determine the age until which the credit vector remains admissible for a check. If the age limit of the credit vector has been exceeded, the document is blocked.
Note:
If you have customized your credit management so that checks can only be made for particular relatively infrequent orders, you can enter an age limit of 0. You should also activate RFC in Customizing for FI (preliminary settings) This ensures that the credit vector is always determined if a credit check is to be performed. Since in this instance credit checks are not run on a frequent basis, this does not place undue pressure on the system.

Note
You can only make entries in the Permitted days and Permitted hours fields if you access Customizing for FI under Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable --> Credit Management --> Credit Control Account --> Define preliminary settings for credit management and enter an X in the Read credit vector field.

Activities

  1. Enter a combination of credit control area, risk category, credit group and a text for the credit check that you wish to define.
  2. Specify the type of check required on the credit control detail screen (e.g. static, dynamic), the range of the check and the system response according to your requirements.
  3. Enter the general data for the credit check if required.

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 204   Establish Functions and Processes 
Mandatory / Optional 1   Mandatory activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 1   Critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG ISMAM_CRED_MGMT_MAIN 0 I510000065 Basic Functions 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
JHVT691F V - View SM30 0000000000 Automatic Credit Check 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  19990816 
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