Hierarchy
SAP_ABA (Software Component) Cross-Application Component⤷
FS-BP (Application Component) Business Partner⤷
FS_BP_AL_RATING (Package) Application Logic: Rating Information
Basic Data
| Data Element | BP_GRADE_METHOD |
| Short Description | Rating Procedure |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | BP_GRADE_METHOD | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 10 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 10 | |
| Value Table | TPZ21 |
Further Characteristics
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| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Rat. Proc. |
| Medium | 20 | Rating Procedure |
| Long | 27 | Rating Procedure |
| Heading | 20 | Rating Procedure |
Documentation
Indicates the rating procedure to be used to rate the business partner.
Use
External service providers, state authorities or departments within the company rate business partners for various business purposes. An external service provider could be Dun & Bradstreet or Schufa, and a state authority could be the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), for example.
Dependencies
You can create rating procedures and ratings in Customizing for SAP Business Partner for Financial Services under Settings for Financial Services -> General Settings -> Ratings/Credit Standing -> Ratings -> Set Rating Procedure.
If the Rating Required checkbox is selected in the Customizing activity Set Rating Procedure, and you have selected a rating procedure, you must enter a rating for this procedure.
If you do not enter date details for a rating procedure, the following values are automatically entered when you save your data for the rating procedure:
Valid from: current date
Valid to: 31.12.9999
Rated on: current date
You can enter numerous ratings for a rating procedure. The validity periods of the ratings for a rating procedure must not overlap.
You can select the Rating Allowed checkbox to indicate that the business partner has given permission for you to collect and save ratings for this rating procedure.
Example
You want to check the credit standing of a customer. You use the Moodys rating procedure to rate the business partner. According to the rating, the credit standing is excellent. The business partner is given the rating Aa1.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20110908 |
| SAP Release Created in | 10 |
