Automatic Clearing - Bank Statement

[Jacob_Maga]

Hi there,

When creating a bank statement through app "Manage Bank Statement", the system seems to look for predecessor transactions, more often in my experience for cash in-flows. In my particular scenario, system is able to find a bank transfer that was created via general journal entry and clear it automatically when selecting "Post" in the bank statement.

The issue we're having is that the document type that is being assigned is "SA". Our team is looking to easily identify bank statement transactions through the document type. Our reprocessing rules are built to assign a "ZR" for clearing their respective items. However the above noted transactions clear automatically, before we have the ability to process through reprocessing rules.

Does anyone know if there is configuration within public cloud where we can define the document type for such transactions/clearing?

[Edrilan_Berisha]

Hi,

the transaction type assigned to it, depends on your configuration of posting rules. So when you post your bank statement, there must be a posting rule, which does that.

One option would be to use only the processing rules instead and define the transaction type for both postings, posting area 1 and 2 via the processing rules. They are now for free, so you can fully control the automation of bank statement processing from this upgrade one, more information here: 

https://community.sap.com/t5/enterprise-resource-planning-blogs-by-sap/future-of-electronic-bank-sta...

So just automate a rule, and you'll see what I mean.

Best,

Edrilan Berisha

[Jacob_Maga]

Thanks Edrilan,

There seems to be different technical documentation regarding posting rules between private/on-prem and public cloud. Specifically "Posting rules are predefined and preconfigured in SAP S/4HANA Cloud. They therefore cannot be changed. Your configuration expert can edit and assign G/L accounts to account symbols, as well as posting rules to external transaction types in the Make Global Settings for Electronic Bank Statement configuration activity." I did take a look at this configuration and noted that no posting rules were customized, rather only SAP delivered configuration.

I did notice a link between the transaction type (refer to below) and the posting rules delivered by SAP.

Since SAP is seemingly transferring to processing rules, from my perspective, its better to define transaction type F028 / F029 depending on the direction of cash. This way, processing rules will be leveraged. Does this thought process make sense?

F028	-	Outgoing Payment for reprocessing	F028
F029	+	Incoming Payment for reprocessing	F029

[Edrilan_Berisha]

Hi Jacob,

yes there is a difference between OnPrem and Public Cloud, from your tags I cannot see which software you have in place. So the difference, as you stated correctly is, that OP can define these posting rules themselves. You can still request adjustments via a service request. It's just that it's not that "quick" as for OnPrem. But that's also a reason why we rebuilt this whole configuration and we try to make it more usable. To be honest, I would try to create and automate a two-step posting rule instead of using posting rules at all. But your idea should also work, yes.

Best, Edrilan Berisha