SD Commission Management Case Study V1.0

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Rebate and Commission Management

October 21,2011



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Requirement

The company sells its products through sales agents who are rewarded a

commission based on the sales volume.

The commission rates are not based just on the total volume but depends on the

rates at which the products are sold.

E.g. Commission rate = 1%, if the unit price is Rs. 1000 – 1200

Commission rate = 2%, if the unit price is Rs. 1201 – 1400

Commission rate = 3%, if the unit price is > Rs. 1400 (This is an incentive to the sales agent to negotiate a better price.)

The commission is to be paid at the end of every quarter.



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Solution Exploration

Solution 1: Update a z-table with the commission amount after saving the

invoice. Create a z-program to create a debit memo at the end of a quarter based

on the table data.

Solution 2: Use an accrual condition to calculate the commission & post to a GL

account. Create a report to show the accrued commission & a z-program to

create the debit memo at the end of a quarter based on the accrual posting.

Solution 3: Use the functionality of rebate management with some

enhancements.



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Solution using Rebate Functionality

Benefits:

No need of creating any additional reports to show accumulated values to date Avoids duplicate payments for the same period

Possibility of posting provisional entries (accruals)

Difficulties:

Standard Rebate processing works with a payer; not with sales agent.

Rate of rebate is based on the total sales volume; is independent of the unit

price of the individual transaction.



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Standard Rebate Processing

RebateAgreement

CreationVBO1

Sales Order1

Delivery, PGI1

InvoiceAmt: 2000

Sales Order2

Delivery, PGI2

InvoiceAmt: 5000

RebateaccrualRs. 40

RebateaccrualRs. 100

Rebate rate = 2% if volume > 4000= 3% if volume > 6000

Accrual rate = 2% (cannot be based on scale)

RebateSettlement

VB(7

Rebate payable : Rs.210 (Rs. 7000 * 3%)+Rebate accrualreversal

Credit MemoRequest

Credit Memo

(Auto-generated)



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Solution Approach & Steps

Approach:

Use new rebate processing which allows pricing routines to be attached to the

rebate conditions. (These fields are disabled in the old procedure.)

Calculate the rebate rate & accrual amount correctly based on the unit rate in

the transaction.

Allow final settlement (quarterly) only to the extent of accrued amount.

Step 1: Creation of a partner function for sales agent

Step 2: Extending price determination based on the sales agent

Step 3: Rebate Customizing

Step 4: Customizing the Pricing procedure and development of routines



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Price Determination Based on Sales Agent

Append structure to KOMK (or KOMKAZ) with a field representing the sales agent

Add the field to the pricing catalog

Write the userexits to move the partner from the sales document to the pricing

communication structure

MV45AFZZ-PRICING_PREPARE_TKOMK (for sales document)

RV60AFZZ-PRICING_PREPARE_TKOMK (for billing – rebate conditions)

Create the condition table using the new field added to the pricing catalog

Create an access sequence based on the new table

Assign the access sequence to the condition type

Note: Rebate pricing determination uses similar concept as sales pricinghowever s maintained in a separate IMG node; the application (E) is different

from sales (A).



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New Rebate Processing

Need to activate synchronous update of LIS info-structure S136

Possible to specify condition value & base value routines for rebate conditions

Possible to use exclusion indicator in rebate access sequence

Very useful in addressing non-standard requirements



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Pricing Procedure for the Invoice

Two condition types are used in the pricing procedure of the invoice.

A “normal” condition (not a rebate condition) to determine rebate rate based on

the scale of the unit price

A rebate condition which is used to accrue the rebate volume. A pricing routine is

attached to the rebate condition to copies the rate from the normal pricingcondition to the rebate condition.

(Otherwise in standard rebate processing accrual rate is independent of any

scale.)



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Pricing Procedure for the Rebate Credit Memo

Only the rebate condition type is used in the pricing procedure.

The rebate credit memo contains two lines with the same condition type.

The first line contains the rebate amount calculated based on the final sales

volume. This triggers the credit posting.

The second line is statistical & contains the accrual value to be reversed. This ine

triggers the accrual reversal posting.

Note: Partial settlement of rebate has an option to pay the rebate to the extent

of only upto accrued values; however this is not available for final settlement.

In standard system final settlement amount is calculated with rebate rate based

on the scale ; it is independent of the accrued amount.

In this solution, a pricing routine attached to the condition type sets the final

settlement value = the value accrued so far.



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Rebate Accounting

Accrual posting is used when the agreement period is comparatively long.

In invoice pricing procedure assign an accrual accounting key (ERU in standard) to

the rebate condition type.

At the time of invoicing

Dr Rebate Expense Account (a P&L account) (assign in the left column in VKOA)

Cr Rebate Accrual Account (a BS account) (assign in the right column in VKOA)

Therefore customer receivable is not affected. At the time of settlement (partial / full):

Following two entries with the actual rebate amount to be paid:

Dr Rebate Expense Account (a P&L account) (assign in the left column in VKOA)

Cr Customer Receivable

Following two entries with the accrual amount (remaining to be reversed):Cr Rebate Expense Account (a P&L account) (assign in the left column in VKOA)

Dr Rebate Accrual Account (a BS account) (assign in the right column in VKOA)

• Note: In this solution, amount to be paid is always equal to the accrued amount.



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Useful Sources of Information

White Paper on Rebate Processing in SAP:

http://www.erpgenie.com/publications/saptips/052005.pdf

OSS Notes:

Note 75778 – Consulting / Troubleshooting for rebate processing

Note 105681 – To use the new rebate procedure



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