Hi team,I have a question regarding Scope Item 2YM: do we need MBC or Cash Management to sell it?

[Antoine]

Hi team,

I have a question regarding Scope Item 2YM: do we need MBC or Cash Management to sell it?

we have an S/4 Public cloud deal and we need to know if we need to position MBC or Cash Management (DDA says it but it doesn't appear in the list of scope items).

Thanks !

[AndreasMuno]

Salut @Antoine.

Thank you for your question. 

Scope Item 2YM, which is the ‘Application Interface to Retrieve Payment Files’, does not require MBC (Multibank Connectivity) nor Cash Management for its implementation. However, depending on your customer's specific business requirements and processes, you may find that integrating with MBC could be the better choice as it implemented as an SAP service and requires less manual configuration efforts from the customer. MBC can streamline and simplify bank communications. I'd recommended to discuss specific needs with their SAP implementation partner or consultant to determine the best approach.

Here is an excerpt of the scope item description at Process Navigator - SAP for Me: "

This scope item provides a basic SOAP service to send outgoing payment files to the banks. This scope item does not provide direct bank communication. When the customer implements this API, they oversee the implementation project and are responsible to operate the service. The customer must run a customer-managed middle-ware to establish the connections, develop encryption mechanisms between the middle-ware and the bank on his own, and set up a third-party solution to monitor the payments.

For the inbound communication (for example, to receive bank statements), customers should use the Finance - Account Receivable Bank Statement Integration (SAP_COM_0316) communication scenario. This communication scenario is related to the Bank Integration with File Interface (1EG) scope item. This scope item will not be enhanced in future releases and is excluded from future developments. This scope item will not support additional message types such as payment status. Because of all the topics above, SAP highly recommends using SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity (16R), providing direct bank communication and an out-of-the-box service managed by SAP."

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