Dunning Notice in SAP Best Practice from ABAPer prospective

Introduction:

In conventional SAP, the form provided for the Dunning Letter is a sap script, whereas in SAP Best Practice, SAP has provided a smartform for Dunning Letter.

In this edition, I will share my findings in one of my SAP Best Practice imply project.

This blog is related to Dunning Letter config & coding  from ABAPer prospective only.You may find some other ways also to do the same.

We have to follow below mentioned steps:

• Copy Smartform
• Config BTE
• Attach dunning form to Dunning procedures
• Coding for email
• Final Output

1.   Copy Smartform

• Smartform for Dunning Letter – YBUS_FIMA.
• We just need to copy it into our Z* smartform and make the changes.
• This smartform has almost everything, you only need to add company logo & address

F Only catch here is the length of smartform name, it should not exceed 16.

• SAP Best Practice also provided the smart style YBUS_SFSTYLE, we can copy it and use it OR we can make the changes in it as well

2. Config BTE

• Transaction code – FIBF – Maintenance transaction BTE
• Click on Settings->P/S Modules->…of an SAP Application (check figure)

• Hit ENTER 2 times
• Check for Event 00001720 FI-FI (check figure)
• Change the FM to FI_PRINT_DUNNING_NOTICE_SMARTF

• Save it

3. Attach dunning form to dunning procedures

• Go to tcode FBMP

• Double click on Procedure 0001
• Click on Dunning texts (check figure)

• Enter company code 1000

• Change the form name to Z* dunning smartform for all the four levels OR if you have different dunning forms for each level, maintain those forms here for each procedure

• Save it

4. Coding for email

• There is standard BTE 00001040 provided by SAP which is called when dunning is running (F150). SAP has also provided sample function module SAMPLE_PROCESS_00001040 to indicate how to use this BTE. The FM imports I_KNA1 structure and return structure C_FINAA.
• Copy this FM SAMPLE_PROCESS_00001040 to Z*FM

• Here we have passed C_FINAA-NACHA = ‘I’, C_FINAA-INTAD = customer email id(check the coding)
• And also pass email Subject in C_ITCPO-TDCOVTITLE = ‘Reminder: Dunning Letter’
• For email body we have to create a text ID in SO10 as

• We need to attach this Z*FM to BTE 00001040
• Go to transaction FIBF. Settings-> Process Modules-> of SAP Application
• Add new entry with Process 00001040 FI-FI and FM as Z*FM created above

5. Final Output

• Transaction code – F150, click Dunn.history

• Next screen enter the values

• On next screen, select one entry and click on Display dunning notice icon

• Print preview

• On print preview screen hit … F3…will get a popup as

• Press Yes, it will trigger an email
• You can check in tcode SOST
• The above popup email id will appear automatically if it is maintained in the customer master

Thanks,

Rahul