rangkuman sap bab 5 part 2

Customer Master-Accounts Receivable

A customer master record contains all teh information that a company needs for its business relations with a customers. This data controls teh posting procedure and subsequent processing such as payments and dunning. Customer master recods also provide information on customers fot the acconting and sales depatements. The customers master record is characterized by the following features :

1. Provides an overview of all of a customres data at any time
2. Allows flexsible acces to the data
3. Forms the data base that controls automatic dunning and automatic payment transaction

The layout of customers master record also leaves room for special requirements. If dunning notices are not to be sent to the customer from whom teh receivable is due, a different dunning receipient can be indicated. If can affliated company is invoiced, this must be reflected in a group must be eliminited (elimination of IC sales).

The three-part structure of master record makes it possible to flexibly depicit the various organizational structures of an operation:

1. General Data

    This data is equally to every company code and every sales organization with in a company.

2. Data for Company Codes

    This data reflects the company-specific agreements with the customer.

3. Data for Sales

    This data has differnt charactersitic for a company’s sales organizatio and chanels.

Vendor Master-Accounts Payable

Teh vendor master record contains all the infomation a company needs for its business relationship with vendors. Vendor master record are centrally stored in the system. This ensures that data is always consistent, up-to-date and without duplication. The vendor master record provides the following:

1. Over view of all data for given vendor
2. Flexible data access
3. Baseline data used to control payment transaction and to represnt business process. In addtion, the vendor master record’s flexibke design is well suited needs.

Vendor master recrd are also used to represent divusions of labir that differ from one vendor branch to the next. Accounting and incoming payment functions can be centrally combined for vendors with several branch offices who have autonomous selling authorithy.