Sales Order multiple Payer and Credit Check

[slb]

Hi gurus,

We have a business requirement to manage different Payers in Sales Order at item level: Sales Order 12345 with Item 1 = Payer A, Item 2 = Payer B.

Still working on a Proof of Concept but we are facing 2 issues:

1- Even if we can change manually the Payer at item level, we got an error message: "Credit limit customer differs from credit limit customer in header". It looks like SAP is confused with different Payers between header and item to trigger the Credit Check.

2- This leads to the second issue: Is it even possible to have the credit management working at item level in this scenario? For me it is probably not possible as Credit Management is at header level (Complete Sales Order is blocked not items).

Any of you have implemented multiple Payers at Sales Order Items level?

If yes, how did you set up the system and what was the impact on the Credit Management?

Please note this is in a S4 1709 system.

[VeselinaPeykova]

1. From what I can remember when you have Credit Management active (just like it was with SD Credit management) you can only change payers if they are all linked to the same credit account. This sounds logical from business perspective in my opinion, because otherwise you won't create a single sales order.

2. No, in a standard system you cannot have Credit Management working on sales order item level. To be able to do so (theoretically) you would have to rewrite a lot of existing features and functionalities, which makes the whole idea not feasible, especially considering the high risk of breaking the whole order-to-cash flow.

I cannot remember working on a project where payers were set on item level, but as long as they refer to the same credit account it should be possible for you to create a POC in your development environment and look for other potential problems - e.g. incoming payments, printouts, etc.

I am curious about the actual business case - why do you need to create a single order for 2 payers if they are not linked to the same credit account?

[slb]

Hi,

Thank you for your answer. It confirms my thoughts. I haven't been able to spot where we manage the credit account in S4. Can you please help?

Here is our story: We are a distributor, meaning we sell products from different brands/manufacturers to different Stores.

So 1 order to 1 Store (Sold-to/Ship-to) may contain products from different Manufacturers and we get paid from them (Bill-to/Payer) not the Store. The Credit check has to be done on the Manufacturers not the Store so at item level in this scenario.

[VeselinaPeykova]

Unfortunately I do not have access to a S4 system at the moment.

If I remember correctly, the transaction for maintaining credit management related data is UKM_BP (or you can use BP).

I have not played with the scenario of common credit account for multiple partners in S4, but my guess is that you can look into BP relationships.

I wish I could help you more, but right now I am using an old ECC system and I cannot test the idea on my own.