Settlement Request Lists

Definition

Document list that contain several single settlement requests for the same vendor (invoicing party).

This list can contain single settlement requests with various billing types, and for various customers (invoice recipients).

The settlement request list is defined in the Business Object Repository (BOR) as an SAP Business Object (type: BUS2100001). For more information, see Business Objects, BAPIs, ALE Interfaces in Agency Business.

Use

The advantage of using settlement request lists is the actual reduction of accounting documents stored in your system. Although an accounting document is generated from each individual document when single settlement requirements are created individually or in lists, the single settlement requests contained in a settlement request list are not posted as single documents. These documents are posted using the settlement request list. Regardless of how many individual documents the list contains, only one accounting document is created.

The individual documents have the posting status Post using Settlement Lists because the vendor and customer accounts is processed via the list and not via the single settlement requirements in the list.

The settlement request list is saved in the system with its own document number. The single settlement requests contained in the list are also saved as individual documents.

You can use the settlement request list to credit the relevant vendor account. As the list can contain various customers, you must create a posting list to debit the individual customer accounts. In the posting list, the individual documents are grouped by customer. As an alternative to using the posting list, you can generate a customer settlement document for each customer.

For further information, see the Posting List and Customer Settlement Document.

Integration

You can create the following follow-on documents from settlement request lists:

• Posting lists
• Customer settlements
• Remuneration lists
• Accounting documents
• Profitability analysis documents
• Documents for Cash Management
• Partner billing documents

On the Accounting details screen, you can display a list of the accounting documents, profitability analysis documents, etc.

On the Document flow details screen, you can display the follow-on documents that are created (see Display Document Flow).

For further information, see Entering Documents and Creating Follow-On Documents.