SAP ABAP Data Element CRMT_TOP_PROCESS_TYPE_CO (Leading Business Transaction Type)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_APPL (Software Component) Logistics and Accounting
   ⤷ CO (Application Component) Controlling
     ⤷ IAOM_CRMSERVICE (Package) Cost and Revenue Controlling for CRM Service
Basic Data
Data Element CRMT_TOP_PROCESS_TYPE_CO
Short Description Leading Business Transaction Type  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type CRM_PROCESS_TYPE_CO    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 4    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 4    
Value Table CRMC_PR_TYP_CO    
Further Characteristics
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Parameter ID   
Default Component name    
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Ldg BT Ty. 
Medium 15 Leadng BT Type 
Long 26 Leading BT Type 
Heading 7 L.BTTy. 
Documentation

Definition

Specifies the transaction type of the first business transaction in a CRM document flow.

Exception: A contract cannot determine the leading transaction type. When a business transaction refers to a contract, the leading transaction type is the transaction type of the first business transaction, which is downstream from the contract.

The leading transaction type is transferred to the ECC as additional information for each business transaction.

Use

The leading transaction type determines the controlling scenario for the first business transaction and all downstream business transactions. In other words, all controlling settings for this leading transaction type also apply to downstream business transactions with different transaction types. This ensures that consistent data is available and uniform controlling procedures are used for all logically-related business transactions.

Dependencies

To use the leading transaction type for downstream business transactions of all transaction types, you have to mask the CRM transaction type with '*'.

To perform amount allocation, you have to specify a leading transaction type.

Amount allocation is not available until after SAP CRM 4.0.For this reason this field is not taken into account for these releases.

Example

You want to use amount allocation for orders. To do so, you have to define a controlling scenario as follows:

  • Enter the transaction type of the CRM order as the leading transaction type.
  • Mask the CRM transaction type with '*'.
  • Choose Single-object controlling as Controlling type and Transaction as Controlling level.
  • Set the Extended Cost Analysis indicator.

As a result, this controlling scenario is used automatically for each confirmation created for an order and the confirmation-related costs are saved in ECC. It is also used for the subsequent billing request, which ensures that the detailed revenues are saved in ECC. This, in turn, ensures that all the data required for the amount allocation is available in the system.

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20031111 
SAP Release Created in 2003_1_470