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Day One
• IHC Business Benefits
• Prerequisites for IHC
• IHC Components
• IHC Master Data
Day Two
• IHC Business Processes
• SAP System Demo
• The SAP In-House Cash application allows diversified companies to optimize their intra-
group payment transactions by establishing an in-house bank. An In-House Cash Center is
a virtual bank within the corporate group, with which each affiliated company having one ore
more accounts. For the affiliated companies, the In-House Cash Center is just another
house bank, which they use primarily to process payables and receivables involving other
group companies.
• The In-House Cash Center is used to process all payments between company units, thus
keeping cash resources within the group and optimizing how they are applied. This saves on
the costs of external netting services and gives you greater flexibility when you process
payment netting transactions.
• The SAP In-House Cash component allows companies with a diversified organizational
structure to minimize the actual flow of cash and therefore reduce bank charges, interest
expenses and losses resulting from delays in value-dating payments. It also helps to avoid
many of the disadvantages associated with external clearing solutions, such as inflexible
procedures with fixed dates and extra costs resulting from manual post processing. By
managing accounts centrally, you can assure your company's ability to pay, optimize credit
management, minimize interest expenses, and maximize interest revenues.
• All incoming and outgoing payments with external entities are processed through the In
house cash center of the parent company. The In-House Cash Center is used to manage all
payments between company units and thus keeping cash resources within the group and
optimizing how they are applied.
Business View
• SAP In-House Cash is a solution for companies that operates globally to manage their intra-
group and external payment transactions more efficiently.
• IHC is set up at the group headquarters
• IHC is a virtual bank where subsidiaries have current accounts.
Below are some of the benefits:
• In-House Cash is a solution for companies that operates globally to manage their intra-group
and external payment transactions more efficiently.
• Improve the business credit position
• Reduces Bank transfer’s and transaction costs
• Minimize Currency exchange and value date losses
• Reduced physical cash transfers
• Processes internal payment transactions on a cost-effective basis
• Reduces the amount of external bank accounts needed
• Optimizes cross-border payment traffic
• cash resources are kept within the group
• Bank key is defined for a particular bank and for a particular country. This
is independent of company code.
• Create new bank accounts
Bank determination
Path : SPRO - Financial Accounting - Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable- Business Transactions - Outgoing Payments - Automatic Outgoing Payments - Payment Media - EDI Payment Orders and Debit Memos - Assign EDI Payment
Method to External Payment Method
Definition
• A note to payee is a field on a data medium containing information on paid line
items relevant for the business partner.
• Number and length of the note to payee fields are defined in the payment medium
format, whilst the content itself is defined in the note to payee.
Use
SAP provides predefined notes to payee that you can adapt for your own formats.
Notes to payee are structured according to the following methods:
• With Customizing in SAP Script format
• With a function module
• With a combination of Customizing and function module.
To adapt a note to payee, in Customizing for Financial Accounting, choose Accounts
Receivable and Accounts Payable ® Business Transactions ® Outgoing Payments
® Automatic Outgoing Payments ® Payment Media ® Make Settings for Payment
Medium Formats from Payment Medium Workbench ® Adjust Note to Payee.
Structure
The note to payee consists of a maximum of 6 different line types:
1. Main note to payee for description of the payment, for example with the
payment of invoices in the lines there is the invoice number, the invoice date,
and/or the invoice amount.
2. Internal short reference for your company for identification of the transaction in
case of failed payment. This could be the number of the payment document,
for example.
3. External short reference for your business partner, a contract/customer
number, for example.
4. Payment advice note that replaces the lines of type 1 where there is not
sufficient space available.
5. and 6. See Alternative Payer, Alternative Payee.
Integration
• The note to payee is independent of format, a separate entity that exists
alongside the formats. You can assign the note to payee to a format via the
payment method and the origin. You can assign a note to payee to several
formats, thus minimizing the effort involved.
Example
Main note to payee No. 746 999 from
Line type 1 line 1 01.01.2000
Line type 1 Main note to payee No. 333 934 from
line 2 02.15.2000
Line type 1 Main note to payee No. 4 734 from 02.20.2000
line 3
Line type 1 Main note to payee Visit our homepage:
line 4 www.sap.com
Line type 2 Internal short Payment document 6 785
reference 987
Line type 3 External short Our account with you: 345
reference 876
Search strings are based on the note to payee information on the bank
statement.
Search string is the unique text which is assigned to the posting rules.
This table determines what payment method to be used in the IHC payment.
Path: SPRO - Financial Supply Chain Management - In-House Cash - Account Management -
Payment Processes in In-House Cash - Set Up Route Processing (T Code # IHCRT)
Path: SPRO - Financial Supply Chain Management - In-House Cash - Account Management -
Payment Processes in In-House Cash - Make Basic Settings for Payment Processes
Path: SPRO - Financial Supply Chain Management - In-House Cash - Account Management -
Payment Processes in In-House Cash - Outgoing Payment Orders - Set Up Creation of
Payment Requests for Inbound IDoc in FI
Current account: Current accounts are nothing but the internal bank accounts
maintained by SAP in order to generate internal bank statements (FINSTA)
Transaction: F9K1/F9K3
This data contains all details on business partners with whom a bank or the
In-House Cash Center is affiliated.
All the IHC activities are linked to the Business partner functionality.
The business partner is a natural or legal person with whom business
relationships are maintained.
Below are some of the Business Partner roles:
• General Business Partner
• Authorized Drawer
• Account holder
• Bank statement recipient
1 Introduction
2 SAP Organizational Entities
6 Systemdemo
Internal
Bank
Head office
(Europe)
US
Subsidiary
Subsidiary
Subsidiary Asia
Subsidiary
Subsidiary
Subsidiary
Subsidiary
Region 1
Region 2
In-House Cash is a solution for companies that operates globally to manage their
intra-group and external payment transactions more efficiently.
In-House Cash Center processes all payments between various affiliates to:
1 Introduction
2 SAP Organizational Entities
6 Systemdemo
Corporate
Subsidiary 3
Group
Subsidiary 2
Subsidiary 1
Subsidiary
• Individual trading entity (e.g. subsidiary) with its own systems (e.g. R/3)
• This subsidiary holds one or more current accounts within the corporate group
head office (In-House Cash Center).
• The subsidiary simply has to define new bank details (for the virtual bank) to the
corporate group head office (In-House Cash Center) as though it were a normal
house bank.
Head Office
• The head office manages the current accounts for the corporate group subsidiaries
within the IHC Center.
• The financial accounting department within the head office manages the IHC
Center general ledger accounts.
Account
management
Corporate
Subsidiary 3 Head Office
Group
Subsidiary 2 In-House
In-HouseCash
Cash Financial
Finanz-
Subsidiary 1 Center
Center Accounting
buch-
Account
Konten- haltung
management
verwaltung
Organizational entities:
• Operative subsidiaries 1,2,3...
• The IHC Center and the financial accounting department are situated within the
head office
• The IHC Center (manages the subsidiary current accounts)
• The financial accounting department manages the chart of accounts and the
general ledger balances.
1 Introduction
6 System demo
FI – GL
Pmnt
Pmnt clearing
clearing
IHC
IHC
S1 S2 (1) 200 540 (2)
S1 S2
- 50 + 200 IHC
IHC IHC
IHC
+ 340 - 150 Receiv.
Receiv. Payab.
Payab.
(2) 540 200 (1)
Account A
+ 100
- 120
Business partner ... Blocks
...
...
No Post.dte Val.dte Curr. Amnt
Currency ... 1
2
30.12.00
31.12.00
31.12.00
31.12.00
EUR
EUR
100.00 C
9.58 D
Interest
Account A
Account charge 10.00 USD + 100.00 Credit interest 0.5 %
- 10.00
+ 0.42
Charges
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Course Contents
Day One
• IHC Business Benefits
• Prerequisites for IHC
• IHC Components
• IHC Master Data
Day Two
• IHC Business Processes
• SAP System Demo
1 Introduction
2 SAP Organizational Entities
6 System demo
External
business 7. 6.
partner
Partner bank
Head office
Payment Bank Statement
house bank
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Process 1: Central Payments
Corporate
Subsidiary 3 Group Head Office
Subsidiary 2 In-House Cash Financial
Center Accounting
Subsidiary 1
Account
management
Pmnt Program OP
External
business
partner
Partner Head Office
bank house bank
Subsidiary 1
IHC Center
Debits the IHC current account of subsidiary 1
Generates and sends a bank statement to subsidiary 1
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Process 1: Central Payments
Corporate
Subsidiary 3 Group Head Office
Subsidiary 2 In-House Cash Financial
Center Accounting
Subsidiary 1
Account
management
Pmnt Program OP
External
business
partner
Partner Head Office
bank house bank
IHC Center
• IHC Center forwards payment information to SAP-FI (Financial accounting)
Financial Accounting
A payment order (payment request) is created in SAP-FI on the basis of this
payment information
The payment order is either sent to the head office house bank immediately
or at a later point in time (collection of several payment orders = external
netting)
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Process 1: Central Payments
Corporate
Subsidiary 3 Group Head Office
Subsidiary 2 In-House Cash Financial
Center Accounting
Subsidiary 1
Account
management
Pmnt Program OP
External
business
partner
Partner Head Office
bank house bank
SAP-FI
Imports the bank statement via the standard bank statement programs
Corporate
Head Office
Group
Subsidiary 3 In-House Cash Financial
Subsidiary 2
2b.
Center Accounting
Subsidiary 1 Account
2a. management
Pmnt Program OP
1.
Corporate
Subsidiary 3 Group Head Office
Subsidiary 2 In-House Cash Financial
Center Accounting
Subsidiary 1
Account
management
Pmnt Program OP
Subsidiary 1:
Defines a new (virtual) house bank „IHC Center“ beforehand
Starts the standard payment program and generates a payment order
House bank: IHC Center
Payee: Vendor „Subsidiary 2“
Partner bank: IHC Center
When the IHC Center is in operation, it is possible to freely define the
payment conditions
Corporate
Subsidiary 3 Group Head Office
Subsidiary 2 In-House Cash Financial
Center Accounting
Subsidiary 1
Account
management
Pmnt Program OP
IHC-Center:
Debits the IHC current account of subsidiary 1
=> Receivable due from subsidiary 1
Creates a credit memo for the IHC current account of subsidiary 2
=> Payable due to subsidiary 2
Generates and sends bank statements to subsidiaries 1 and 2
The netting amount results from the account balance (based on the
turnovers)
Corporate
Subsidiary 3 Group Head Office
Subsidiary 2 In-House Cash Financial
Center Accounting
Subsidiary 1
Account
management
Pmnt Program OP
Subsidiaries 1 and 2:
Import the internal bank statements in the same way as the bank
statements from external house banks via the standard bank statement
programs
At this point the system automatically clears the open items
Internal payments without involvement of banks
Head Office
= + 30 = + 50 = - 80
Corporate
Head Office
Group
Subsidiary 3 In-House Cash Financial
Center Accounting
Subsidiary 2
Account
management
Subsidiary 1 Local
Currency
Conversion currency
Function GBP
Pmnt Program OP
Payment order)
-100 YEN Acct 1 Transaction Account
+100 YEN Acct 2 currency currency
YEN USD
1 Introduction
2 SAP Organizational Entities
6 System demo
Electronic
Outgoing payments Bank statement RFC bank statement
BAPI PAYRQ
The system uses Application Link Enabling (ALE) and RFC functions to link
the systems of the participating affiliated companies with the In-House Cash
Center.
Below are the different types of IDOC message types being used for In-
House Cash Application:
PAYEXT (basic type: PEXR2002) for transferring payment information from
the affiliated companies to the In-House Cash Center.
DIRDEB (basic type: PEXR2002) for transferring direct debit information
from the affiliated companies to the In-House Cash Center or between
different bank areas.
FINSTA (basic type: FINSTA01) for passing on the relevant bank statement
data from the In-House Cash Center to the individual subsidiaries. Settings
needs to be done for Electronic bank statement format.
Transaction F9N10
Transaction F9B1
This is a very critical activity everyday and ensures that the posting
date is correct. Helps in reconcile the postings.
F9N1 and F9N7 generates these IDOC’s in IHC System and Inbound in FI System.
Master
Master Data
MasterData
Data
Business
BusinessPartner
BusinessPartner
Partner
Master
Master Data
MasterData
Data
Business
BusinessPartner
BusinessPartner
Partner
1 Introduction
2 SAP Organizational Entities
6 System demo
Transactions: F996
Sometimes we see Current accounts are blocked when system generates the bank
statements. SAP recommends to use function module BKK_PA_PROCESS_DESTRUCTOR
to remove the blocks.
SAP Tutor
1. External Vendor Payments using IHC.
2. External Incoming Payments.
3. Internal payments.
4. Periodic activities.