Hierarchy
BBPCRM (Software Component) BBPCRM⤷
CRM-MD-BP (Application Component) Business Partners⤷
FB0C (Package) Financial Accounting customers
IMG Activity
| ID | SIMG_CFMENUORFBOB77 | Define Correspondence Types |
| Transaction Code | S_ALR_87003377 | IMG Activity: SIMG_CFMENUORFBOB77 |
| Created on | 19981222 | |
| Customizing Attributes | SIMG_CFMENUORFBOB77 | Define Correspondence Types |
| Customizing Activity | SIMG_CFMENUORFBOB77 | Define Correspondence Types |
Document
| Document Class | SIMG | Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs. |
| Document Name | SIMG_CFMENUORFBOB77 |
In this activity, you create your own correspondence types or change the specifications for the standard correspondence types. A correspondence type represents the type of letters in the system. You must create a correspondence type for the possible correspondences for each type of letter which you need.
Example
In the standard system there are the correspondence types "Payment notice with line items", "Payment notice without line items", "Document extract" or "Account statement".
You can define further correspondence types for payment notices, such as payment notices especially for payments which are made for invoices already cleared, or for credit memos cleared twice.
The correspondence types are
- Offered to the user by the system for selection when processing business transactions or
- Created automatically according to rules defined by the user or
- Always created automatically by the system
Example
You can select the correspondence type "Payment notice" when entering incoming payments. Bill of exchange charges statements are created automatically for your customers' payments by bill of exchange if charges to be passed on were posted.
You determine which data is necessary for creating the letters for the correspondence types. The following data is necessary for the correspondences:
Correspondence Necessary data
Payment notices Document number
Account statements Account number and date specifications
Bill/exch.charges statements Document number
Internal documents Document number
Individual letters Account number
Document extracts Document number
This data is either entered manually by the user or is determined automatically by the system after he/she has selected the relevant correspondence type.
Example
If you select the correspondence type "Payment notice without line items" in the account display, then you must specify a document number since the correspondence type requires this. If you have specified in the customer master record that the payment notices are to be created automatically, then the system determines the necessary data when posting an incoming payment.
Standard settings
Correspondence types are delivered with the standard system. Their keys begin with SAP.
Note
You can use the standard correspondence types. If you want to make changes to them, copy the required correspondence type and change the new correspondence type accordingly. This is necessary since the standard correspondence types could be overwritten during the next change of release.
Activities
- Find out which letters were sent to your customers/vendors previously.
- Find out whether a correspondence type is already defined for these in the standard system.
- Define your own correspondence types if necessary.
Business Attributes
| ASAP Roadmap ID | 203 | Establish Master Data |
| Mandatory / Optional | 3 | Nonrequired activity |
| Critical / Non-Critical | 2 | Non-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 | SIMG_CFMENUORFBOB77 | 0 | HLA0006520 O HLA0001271 O HLA0001281 |
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 |
| V_T048 | V - View | OB77 | 9999999999 | Define Correspondence Types |
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 19981222 |
| SAP Release Created in |
