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Credit Management in Sales and Distribution. For more information, visit the Enterprise Resource Planning
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Summary
This document illustrates what is SAP SD credit management and how to configure it in a systematic
manner. It also explains how a new incoming sales order is checked against the customers credit limit. It
shows how credit management supports the information flow between different departments within a
company to make quick and efficient credit decisions.
Author:
Priyadharshini Shanmugasundaram
Author Bio
Priyadharshini Shanmugasundaram is currently working as SAP Technical Consultant in Applexus
Technologies Pvt Ltd.
Table of Contents
Credit Management ............................................................................................................................................ 3
Purpose of Credit Management .......................................................................................................................... 3
Features .............................................................................................................................................................. 3
Types of Credit Management ............................................................................................................................. 4
Simple Credit Check: ...................................................................................................................................... 4
Automatic Credit Check: ................................................................................................................................. 4
Static Credit Limit Determination: ................................................................................................................... 4
Dynamic Credit Check Determination: ............................................................................................................ 5
Settings ............................................................................................................................................................... 5
Checks: ............................................................................................................................................................. 12
Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 16
Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 17
Credit Management
Most enterprises extend credit to their customers. This literally means, selling their goods and collecting
money at a later point of time. The amount of credit extended is determined by the customers credit
worthiness (customers credit limit). The number of days for which credit is extended is based on the
payment terms associated with that transaction.
i.e.,If the customers credit limit is 20,000 and if he creates an order worth 16,000 with payment terms of Net
45 2% i.e., if money is paid within 45 days of purchase, the customer will get 2% discount),he needs to pay
(16,000 2% = 15600).
20,00-15,600= 4400
Features
Credit Management includes the following features:
Depending on your credit management needs, you can specify your own automatic credit checks
based on a variety of criteria. You can also specify at which critical points in the sales and
distribution cycle(for example : sales order entry, delivery, goods issue) the system carries out the
checks.
During order processing the credit representative automatically receives information about a
customers critical credit situation.
Critical credit situations can also be automatically communicated to credit management personnel
through internal electronic mail.
Your credit representatives are in a position to review the credit situation of a customer quickly and
accurately and, according to your credit policy, decide whether or not to extend credit.
01) Sales
02) Deliveries
03) Goods Issue
Settings
Credit Control Area:
Credit management takes place in the credit control area. It is an Organizational unit that represents the area
where customers credit limit is specified and monitored.
A credit control area can include one or more company codes. It is not possible to divide a company code
into several credit control areas.
1. Assign Company Code to Credit Control Area.
Path: IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Financial Accounting -> Assign Company Code
to Credit Control Area
3.
In order to classify customers according to the risk they represent and to trigger the relevant checks,
you can assign a risk category to a customer. The risk category determines which checks the system
should carry out when processing orders in Sales and Distribution.
Here you can notice that the credit control area INFC is assigned to the risk category 001-Low
Risk.
4. Assign Sales documents and delivery documents for credit management.
Here we can specify for which sales document type or delivery document type the credit limit is to be
carried out and at what point of time the credit check has to take place whether order or delivery or
post goods issue.
If the credit check is set, the system will respond according to the following ways :
Warning message The document can be saved.
Error message - The document cannot be saved
Setting a delivery block The document can be saved but a delivery block will be set automatically.
5.
Here you can check the credit active checkbox to activate the credit check for the corres[ponding
item category.
Here you can notice that the credit group 01 is assigned to the credit control area INFC.
Checks:
Static Credit Limit Check:
The customers credit exposure may not exceed the established credit limit.The credit exposure is the total
combined value of all the items:
Open Orders- The open order value is the value of the order items which have not yet been delivered.
Open Deliveries-The open delivery value is the value of the delivery items which have not yet been invoiced.
Open billing documents-The open invoice value is the value of the billing document items which have not yet
been forwarded to accounting.
Open Items(accounts receivable)-The open items represent documents that have been forwarded to
accounting but not yet settled by the customer
Dynamic credit limit check with credit horizon:
Dynamic credit check checks all the document value by considering the horizon period.The open order value
includes all undelivered or only partially delivered orders. The value is calculated on the shipping date and
stored in an information structure according to a time period that you specify (days,weeks, or months). When
you define the credit check, you can then specify a particular horizon date in the future (for example: 10 days
or 2 months, depending on the periods you specify). For the purposes of evaluating credit, you want the
system to ignore all open orders that are due for delivery after the horizon date.
Maximum Document Value:
The sales order or delivery value may not exceed a specific value which is defined in the credit check. The
value is stored in the currency of the credit control area. This check is useful if the credit limit is not yet been
defined for a new customer. It is initiated by a risk category which is defined specifically for new customers.
Critical Fields:
The credit check is triggered by changes made in the document to values in any of the credit-sensitive fields.
If a check in this field is carried out, the following fields are relevant :
Payment terms
Additional value days
Fixed value date
Next/Review date :
If you process a sales order after a customer's next review date has already gone by, the system
automatically carries out a credit check.
Open items :
Specifies whether the system carries out a credit check based on open items. This type of credit check works
in conjunction with two values that you specify in the adjacent fields :
Maximum percentage of overdue items in open items
Number of days which the open items are overdue
Oldest Open Item :
Indicates whether the system carries out a credit check based on the age of the oldest open item.The oldest
open item may not be more than a specified number of days overdue.
High Dunning level :
The customers dunning level may only reach a specified maximum value.
User-defined Checks :
If you want to carry out checks other than the standard checks, you can define your own checks in the
appropriate user exits.
Settings for simple credit check:
For simple credit check, there is no need to assign the credit group to the document type. you can simply
assign where the check should happen while processing the order.
This means that, for the document type XR, the credit limit is checked at the time of delivery (B).
Since the credit limit of the customer is 50,000, no credit check will happen.
Now total value of the open sales orders is 20,000 + 10,000 = 30,000.Now let us check whether the system
is giving warning message, if the sales order which we are going to create exceeds the credit limit of the
customer.
Sales Order3:
If the system gives a warning message the sales order will be saved. If it gives an error message, it will not
be saved. If you want an error message to be displayed, you can change the settings for credit management
as discussed in above steps.
Related Content
SAP Help Portal
SAP Documentation - Settings for Credit Management and Risk Management: Overview
For more information, visit the Enterprise Resource Planning Homepage.