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Credit and risk management takes place in the credit control area. According to your
corporate requirements, you can implement credit management that is centralized,
decentralized, or somewhere in between.
An organizational unit that represents the area where customer credit is awarded and
monitored. This organizational unit can either be a single or several company codes, if
credit control is performed across several company codes. One credit control area
contains credit control information for each customer.
For example, if your credit management is centralized, you can define one credit control
area for all of your company codes.
If, on the other hand, your credit policy requires decentralized credit management, you
can define credit control areas for each company code or each group of company codes.
Credit limits and credit exposure are managed at both credit control area and customer
level. You set up credit control areas and other data related to credit management in
Customizing for Financial Accounting. The implementation guide is under Enterprise
Structure -> Definition or Assignment -> Financial Accounting and then Maintain credit
control area. You assign customers to specific credit control areas and specify the
appropriate credit limits in the customer master record.
Tips by : Kapilaa
Settings for determining the credit control area of a document. The settings of items 1 - 4
are taken into account according to their priority. The credit control area found is stored
in field VBAK-KKBER.
1. Transaction OB38
Check which credit control area is assigned to the company code.
Company code:
Credit control area:
2. Transaction OVFL
Check which credit control area is assigned to the sales area.
Sales area:
Credit control area:
5. Transaction OBZK
For the settings under items 2 - 4, field "All company codes" must be marked in
Transaction
OB45, or the credit control area must be entered under the relevant company code in
table
T001CM of the credit control areas allowed.
Company code:
Credit control areas allowed:
7. Transaction OVAK
Which settings do exist for the sales document type used?
Sales document:
Check credit:
Credit group:
8. Transaction OVAD
Which settings do exist for the delivery type used?
Delivery type:
Credit group for delivery:
Credit group for goods issue:
9. Transaction OB01
Credit management/Change risk category
Definition of the risk category for each credit control area. This risk category can be
assigned to a credit account by using Transaction FD32.
screen. In particular, check whether fields "Reaction" and "Status/block" are set
correctly. To carry out follow-up actions in case of a credit block, the credit check
status must be set (field "Status/block").
12. Settings for updating the credit values Update of the credit values is required for the
limit
check (static or dynamic credit limit check).