SAP S4/HANA Finance Accounts Receivable

SAP S4/HANA Finance Accounts Receivable

Changes in AR in S4/HANA
Customer Master replaced with BP. In ECC FI customer master is created in XD01 than extended to FSCM, Joint venture accounting etc. as Business Partner. This is data duplicity. In HANA FI Customer master created as BP. Now this BP can be saved in various roles like FSCM Credit Management, Treasury Business Partner, FI Customer master etc. This removes data redundancy and thus speed up SAP system performance.
AR Credit Management is replaced with FSCM Credit Management

Below steps to be followed to configure Accounts Receivable in SAP S4/HANA Finance

Activation switch for function

Path: Cross application component – SAP Business Partner – Activation switch for Functions

Define Account Groups with Screen layout (Customers)

Account Group determine number range of customer account and screen layout of fields in customer records.

Path: Financial Accounting -Accounts Receivable/AP- Customer accounts – Master data – Preparation for creating customer master data – Define Account Groups with Screen Layout

Acct Group: MK21

Company Code data- Account Management – Reconciliation account is mandatory.

Create Number Range for Customer Accounts

Path: FA-AR/AP- Customer accounts – master data – Preparation for creating customer master data- Create Number Range for Customer Accounts

External Number Range: HC, MC

Assign Number Range to Customer Account Group

Path: Financial Accounting-Accounts Receivable/AP- Customer accounts – master data – Preparation for creating customer master data

MK21 assign Number range MC

Create Customer Reconciliation Account

Transaction Code: FS00

Select Account Type as Balance sheet Account. Account group as Balance sheet. Sort key as 001 and Field status variant as G067. Shown below.

Define Number Ranges (Business Partner)

Path: Cross Application Components – SAP Business Partner – Business Partner – Basic Settings – Number Range and Groupings – Define Number Ranges

Define Number Range MC

Define Groupings & Assign Number Ranges

Path: Cross Application Components – SAP Business Partner – Business Partner – Basic Settings – Number Range and Groupings

Grouping: MK21

No. Range: MC

Master Data Synchronization

Here we map Business partner group to Customer Account group. Thus, BP automatically works as SAP FI customer

Path: Cross Application Components- Master Data Synchronization – Customer / Vendor Integration – Business Partner Settings – Settings for Customer Integration – Field assignment for customer integration – Assign Keys – Define Number assignment for direction BP to Customer

Create Business Partner / Create Customer Master Data

Transaction code: XD01 – This takes to Tcode BP.

In S4/HANA FI customer is replaced with Business Partner to remove data redundancy. When Business Partner is created FI customer is automatically created by system. Thus, SAP ECC transaction code XD01, XD02, XD03, VD01, VD02, VD03 are all replaced by transaction code BP

Save – BP#800002 has been created.

Now click the company code tab and enter Company code and Reconciliation account.

There are two different numbers.

1st is Business Partner number: 800002.
2nd is AR Customer number: 400001.

These are linked as per configuration done in earlier steps.

Now in the Business Partner you can create multiple roles like Clerk, contact, subsidiary etc. These are than linked to each other through relationship button. Please see example below

Define Tolerances (Vendors/ Customers)

Transaction code: OBA3

Tolerances up to which difference in payment to vendor invoices are automatically posted to expense or revenue accounts when clearing Open Invoices.
Payment terms for residual items, if posted during clearing