SAP R/3 Installation

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SAP FI GL

• Company code configuration which includes creating chart of accounts,
• Creating posting period variant, defining retained earnings account,
• Creating document types. Define tolerance groups for employees
• Configuration for Maximum exchange rate differences
• Configuring parallel currencies
• Configuration for automatic clearing
• Configuration for foreign currency valuation
• Configuration for regrouping of GR/IR clearing
• Creating financial statement version i.e. defining balance sheet and profit and loss account
• Integration - FI- MM automatic account assignment, FI- SD automatic account assignment
SAP AR & AP & Bank accounting
• Configuring account groups for Customers and Vendors, defining screen layout per activity for customers and vendors
• Deleting customer data
• Configuring payment terms
• Automatic account assignment for various AR & AP transactions like bank charges, overpayments/underpayments, exchange rate difference, rounding differences
• Configuring payment block reasons
• Configuring automatic payment program
• Includes House bank configuration
• Configuring the manual bank reconciliation and the electronic bank reconciliation
• Configuration for dunning
• Configuration for special G/L transactions like down payment made, down payment received
• Configuration for regrouping according to maturity
SAP Asset Accounting
• Creating/Copying Depreciation Areas- Assignment to company Code,
• Input Tax Indicator Configuration , Screen Layout Rules
• Specify Account Determination Rules - Define Asset Classes, Number Ranges,
• Critical Check Boxes Notification
• Integration of Asset Accounting with General Ledger, Defining Posting Rules to Cost Center, Specify Financial Statement Versions for Asset Accounting
• Complex Depreciation Calculation Procedures- Setting up of Depreciation Areas, depreciation key, Define Cut off Value key
• Defining the crucial Base Methods, Declining Balance Methods, Multilevel Methods, Maintaining Period Controls
• Pre Production Go Live Activities and Their Configuration
SAP Cost Center Accounting
• Maintaining controlling area settings, which includes defining modules which are active i.e. profit center, profitability analysis, internal orders. Assigning company code to controlling area.
• Multiple valuation approaches/transfer prices - maintaining currency and valuation profile assigning it to controlling area, creating actual versions for parallel valuations
• Cost element accounting - creation of various types of cost elements
• Settings for Reconciliation Ledger which includes defining adjustments accounts for reconciliation postings
• Creating cost center hierarchy, cost center, cost center groups, activity types, statistical key figures
• Creating planning layouts for cost center planning
• Configuring various allocation cycles - Distribution, assessment, indirect activity allocation. Configuring the splitting structure
• Configuring automatic account assignment table.
SAP Product Costing & Material Ledger Configuration (Sells separately for $249)
• Product Cost Planning- Detailed configuration of overhead keys, costing sheets, overhead groups and Complete Cost Component Structure
• Material Cost Estimates - In depth configuration and analysis of the Costing Variants including Valuation variant, Transfer Strategy and Costing Types
• Special Features of Cross Company Costing
• Complete Cost Object Controlling Configuration across various industries including Repetitive Manufacturing
• Complete Integration with Production Planning on Default Order types, parameter checks
• Work in Progress Configuration- Calculation of Results Analysis keys, Valuation Method and Assignments.
• Detailed Variance Calculation configuration and setting up of Variance keys
• Setting up the Settlement Profile, Allocation and Source Structure including the complex PA Transfer Structure
• Detailed configuration for Sales Order Costing - Make To Order (An absolute steal)
• Detailed configuration for Make to Stock ( An absolute steal)
• Detailed configuration of Material Ledger ( A real value add)
SAP Profit Center
• Maintaining profit center settings, creating dummy profit center, making settings for actual flow of data.
• Maintaining profit center hierarchy, creating profit center
• Maintaining settings for transfer prices
• Maintaining planning layout for profit center planning
• Configuring allocation cycles - Distribution, assessment
• Maintaining automatic account assignment of revenue elements
• Maintaining the additional balance sheet and profit and loss accounts (3KEH)
SAP Profitability Analysis (Sells separately for $199)
• Configuring the operating concern which includes maintain characteristics, maintain value fields. Copying customizing from an existing operating concern
• Maintaining user defined characteristics, maintaining characteristics hierarchy
• Define Characteristics derivation
• Configuring valuation strategies. Valuation using standard cost estimate
• Configuring condition tables and costing sheets
• Manual planning, automatic planning, integrated planning
• Configuring the value flow from SD to COPA, configuring the value flow from FI, MM to COPA
• Configuring assessment cycle for value flow from CO to COPA
• Configuring settlement of production variances to COPA
• Configuring Profitability reports for COPA












DUNNING
Dunning is a Germany word which means a “ remainder to the party”.

Some times your business partner may fall behind payments. Then you can send them a payment remainder or a dunning notice to remind them about their outstanding debts

You can use the dunning program to dun both the customers and vendors

It may be necessary to dun the vendors if they has a debit balance as result of credit memo

If a customer is also a vendor we can off set the account balances against one another

Dunning program selects the overdue open items, determines the dunning level of the account and creates a dunning notice

The SAP system allows you to use either the automatic dunning program, which duns all overdue items in accordance with your selection criteria or if received you can dun individual customers or vendors

There are some attributes to control the dunning program and these attributes are configured according to the needs of the company

Attributes are :

Dunning procedure
Dunning level
Dunning areas

Dunning procedure:

A predefine procedure specifying how customers or vendors are dunned. For each procedure, the user defines

Dunning frequency
Text for the dunning notice
Number of dunning levels

Dunning level :

SAP has given totally 9 levels. The number of levels we use is depend upon the client requirement

Dunning areas:

Dunning area represents an organizational entity that is responsible for dunning.

Configuration

Define dunning area(OB61)

Define dunning procedure (FBMP)

Assign dunning procedure in customer master (XD02)

Sales posting(F-22)

Dunning(F150)

Define dunning area(OB61)

Here you define dunning area (dunning area is optional)

Define dunning procedure (FBMP)

In this activity you enter the settings that control the dunning program

setting dunning procedure which determines the dunning interval, grace periods and number of dunning levels
setting the dunning charges
Setting the dunning notice
Assign dunning procedure in customer master (XD02)

Here we need to assign the dunning procedure to the party for whom we want to run dunning.

Dunning(F150)

Run date and identification.
Parameters(dun date,doc posted upto,customer,cocod)
Schedule the dunning run (start immediately)
Schedule dunning notice printout (output device name)
Dunning history(account type, co code)
Display dunning notice (Print preview)

Run date:
It is the date on which the program is to carried out as planned. It is also possible to run the program at earlier or later date

Identification:
This is used to distinguish between several runs with the same reconciliation date

Dunning date :
Dunning date has two functions
It is the issue date of the dunning notice
It is also basis for calculating the days in arrears

Documents posted up to:
Only items which have been posted up to this date r included in the processing

INTEREST CALUCULATION

Interest can be calculated on General ledger account, vendor and customer in two ways

Account balance interest calculation (S type)
Item interest calculation (P type)

Interest indicator is a key for allocation of interest terms for respective accounts.
We will assign an interest indicator to the master records of the customer, vendor and general ledger accounts for which we want to calculate the interest.
Interest calculation is controlled by the settings made in the interest indicator
Interest is calculated using debit interest rate defined for the interest indicator.
Credit interest are used when interest is being calculated on items paid prior to due date.

Interest calculation process

Identification of items on which the interest is to be calculated
Number of days for which the interest is to be calculated
Converting into local currency
Correspondence

Configuration

Define interest calculation type(OB46)
Prepare account balance interest calculations (OBAA)
Define reference interest rates (OBAC)
Define time dependent terms(OB81)
Enter interest rates(OB83)
Creation of GL accounts(FS00)
Assignment of accounts for automatic postings(OBV2)
Postings(F-02)
Interest calculation run (F.52)

Define interest calculation type(OB46)

In this step you need to define the interest indicator and specify that it is used for account balance interest calculations or item interest calculations .

Prepare account balance interest calculations (OBAA)

Here , for the above defined interest indicator you need to give specifications like interest cal frequency, settlement day ,calendar type ,output control etc

Define reference interest rates (OBAC)

In this activity, you define your reference interest rates by entering a key and a name.

Define time dependent terms(OB81)

In this activity, you specify how the interest rate is to be determined for each interest indicator. You can make this specification dependent on currency and a validity date. You specify a condition(term) for each entry which determines which interest type it is (debit or credit interest).

Enter interest rates(OB83)

In this activity, you specify the required interest rates, dependent on the date for the reference interest rates.

Creation of GL masters(FS00)

(term loan a/c, interest a/c)
The master record of an account must contain an interest indicator so that it is taken into consideration during interest calculation

Assignment of accounts for automatic postings(OBV2)

In this activity you define the specifications for posting interest calculated on G/L account balances.

Assign accounts in full to the account symbols for the respective interest earned posting or interest paid posting. For the balance sheet account posting, a generic entry is possible.

Postings(F-02)

(term loan receipt, term loan repayment)

Interest calculation run (F.52)

Here you need to give your chart of accounts, GL accounts, company code and calculation period to specify the limits within which interest is to be calculated.