Sanctioned Party List Screening Strategy for Customs Docs

[former_member256034]

Hi,

Can anybody tell me the difference in the customizing Setting

Sanctioned Party List Screening Strategy for Customs Docs?

It´s either new check of changed addresses or 1 Status check of unchanged addresses. Actually I thought the System executes both processes?

Thanks,

Carsten

[pecas777 · Accepted solution]

Hi Carsten,

You are correct that it does execute the screening any time an address is changed. I find the descriptions very misleading.

New Check of Changed Addresses performs SPL check of any address in a document for which any part of that address was changed in the document since the last time the document was screened. This happens no matter how many times the document is screened or how long the interval is between screenings.

Status Check of Unchanged Addresses includes new check of changed addresses as above, but additionally checks the status of the BP address in GTS master data for all other addresses on the document. If a status “blocked” is found the document will be blocked and can only be released if the BP is released at the master data level. You would want to use this setting if you have examples where you create a customs document and then several months may pass before you transact against that document.

If you process orders and deliveries within a week or so of creation, it doesn’t make sense to activate the second setting because it will bog down the system with lots of unnecessary status checks.

Thanks,

Jessica

[former_member437381]

Hi Carsten,

Here is the explanation through an example:

(1) Customer with name AAA is transferred to SAP GTS. Say you have activated the synchronous SPL checks for BP so the SPL screening is happening synchronously based on the name AAA and a status (Blocked/Released) is immediately assigned to the BP

(2) Later on, a Sales Order is raised for the same customer. However, the person who is creating the SO is manually changing the name of the customer in the SO. It was AAA and now in the SO the customer name is BBB.

Which of the names would you like to take into account for the SPL screening: AAA or BBB?

The customising setting your are mentioning is here for that:

- Status check of unchanged address --> The system will use the SPL status of step (1) in my above explanation. it is basically not performing a new screening, just reading the status Blocked/Released of the BP screening to determine if the SO should be blocked or not

- New screening of changed address --> The system will perform a new screening for the name BBB (the changed name). The outcome of this SPL screening could be different from the one performed on name AAA. In case the name was not changed (in my example it remained AAA in the SO), then the system is not performing a new screening, it will just read the status of the BP screening (i.e. the result of the screening with name AAA).

In order to have the system covering both scenarios, recommendations is to have the option "New screening of changed address" activated.

(The above example I gave is for changed names but this would work the same way for a changed address too).

Hope this helps.

Mouaz BEN REDJEB