Business partner posting in FICO and FICA using SAP SD

[Former Member]

Dear All,

Following is the requirement:-

1. The business partner will be created in FPP1 and replicated as SD customer.

2. The posting for the business partner would happen both in FI-CA and FI-AR depending on the business process.

Our Understanding:-

The SD/FI-CA integration happens when the account group of the SD customer is ticked in customizing.

When this is done the contract account feild becomes mandatory in the sales order.

Is there any standard way to do this, Please help/suggest.

Regards

Aadesh

[clinton_jones2]

Take a look at http://scn.sap.com/thread/3181874 , although this is an ISU example it covers off the scenario that you are describind. More than ticking the account grouping.

You need to verify that you have done the following:

SD structure definition In SPRO

Define Sales Organization

Distribution Channel:

Assign sales organization to company code

Assign distribution channel to a sales organization

Assign division to sales organization

Set Up Sales Area

Assign Sales Office to Sales Area

Assign sales organization – distribution channel - plant

Define Account groups  for Customer Accounts

Define Number ranges for Customer Accounts

Assign Number Ranges to Customer Account Groups

Maintain Partner Determination

If you haven't defined the number range for the customer account groups this may be why it is not working.

[Former Member]

Dear Clinton,

Thanks for you reply, i am able to replicate the customer from IS-U to SAP SD and also do the posting in FI-CA.

My question is i want to use the same customer/ BP to post to FI-AR is there any standard setting for this?

Regards

Aadesh

[william_eastman]

Aadesh:

Firstly - it would not be recommended to use both FI-AR and FI-CA simultaneously for subledgers.

Secondly - since each SD customer has an account group, and the usage of FI-CA is dependent on the account group setting, each customer could only post to one or the other and never both.

regards,

bill.

[Former Member]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the reply, so then there will be be two master data (one in IS-U and one is SD) in SAP for the same customer.ANy idea on this?

Regards

Aadesh 

[william_eastman]

Yes - but the SD data is only a copy.  All maintenance is done via business partner and then changes are reflected in SD.

[Former Member]

To add futher to William comments. The SD business partner is created with reference to the reference customer that we enter in ISU business partner customer. You can default the reference customer in FPP1 by configuration Path: SAP Utilities > Master Data > Business Partner > Settings for Creating Standard Customers > Maintain Parameters for Creating Reference Customer in Standard System. The SD customer is created with reference to this customer with the exception of Name and address details. As details are unique for each customer they are not replicated from Business partner. Only compamy code and  sales area data are same as in reference customer.

Hope this clarifies your dought...

Rahul