Security Deposits Suppliers - Best Practice

[VanessaCallens_]

Dear, 

Our customer asked us to the best practice in SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud for security deposits at the bank by the supplier. Sometimes their suppliers ask for a security deposit. How can they register / post / follow up those deposits? 

I found this SAP Help page but I am wondering if this is only for customers or if this works the same for suppliers? https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD/cdccca8e03d74101a0135863bc522b49/2508c5536a51204be1000000...

Do we need scope item 2UJ - Contract Accounting - Open Item Management for this? If yes, does this require an extra license? 

Thank you in advance! 

Kind regards,

Vanessa

[OwenLiu]

Added Finance tag, please remove tag SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.

[Michael_Seitz]

Hello Vanessa,

[Michael_Seitz]

Hello Vanessa, there is no extra-license needed anymore to use Contract Accounting. But pre-condition for this functionality is the usage of Contract Accounting (FI-CA). You need to activate the scope items for FI-CA. But: FI-CA is a complete new subledger, in parallel to FI-AR/AP. That's not what customers typically do for single features FI-CA is capable of. Therefore before activation the feature you have to decide which subledger you want to use: either FI-CA or FI-AR.

[HenrikeGrötecke]

Hello,

Thank you or your question.

Here's the answer provided by the experts:

Hello Vanessa, there is no extra-license needed anymore to use Contract Accounting. But pre-condition for this functionality is the usage of Contract Accounting (FI-CA). You need to activate the scope items for FI-CA. But: FI-CA is a complete new subledger, in parallel to FI-AR/AP. That's not what customers typically do for single features FI-CA is capable of. Therefore before activation the feature you have to decide which subledger you want to use: either FI-CA or FI-AR.

Best regards,

Henrike