White Paper Abstract ; This is an abstract from white paper on usual challenges
faced by implementation teams.
Abstract of Challenges:
Rebate recipient; CMR / DMR creation requires Payer account group to be the same as Sold-to account Group. This puts restrictions on overall design of Business Partner (BP). Development is required to change BP in CMR ? DMR to retain flexibility in BP design.
Customer rebate; Implementation of customer rebate is the challenge for every organization as rebate agreement is created with one rebate settlement material & accrual is done on all delivered materials- significant reconciliation effort.
Reconciliation; SAP standard settings do not pass rebate numbers to financial module. This results in two step reconciliation effort – identification through reporting & adjustments to accounts accordingly.
Accounting; Usual settings are based on two GL accounts which would trigger observation “postings to finance have duplicate entries” for direct rebates. A three account approach – Provision, Accrual & Settlement will provide easier reconciliation. The suggested accounting details are as follows;
Rebate number on accounting documents; As SAP does not send the rebate numbers, to finance through standard configuration. Finance is solely dependent on Sales reporting to make manual adjustments. Development is required where mapping of rebate agreements on invoice is transferred to financial documents - ZUONR, XREF1, XREF2, XREF3 at line item level are recommended by the author. This facilitates easy reconciliation of the rebate accrual / settlement.