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Advance Complaint Management and its Integration with Advance Returns Management

June 18, 2015 | 991 Views |
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Overview on Advance Complaint Management:

The Advance Complaint management in SAP CRM integrates with the Advance Returns management in SAP ECC. It facilities creation of logistical follow up activities in SAP ERP like creation of Advance Returns Order, Inbound Deliveries, post goods return, credit memo automatically to name a few in SAP ERP. Repair and Replacement Process are also integrated in the Advance Complaint Management by selection of certain item level fields which I would be explaining later in my blog. The Advance Complaint Management uses the lord framework for triggering subsequent follow up documents in ERP.



Business Function Object Activation in CRM

Certain business function objects need to be activated in SAP CRM and in the ERP Module for the Advance Complaint Management to trigger the Advance Returns Order in SAP ERP. In SAP CRM the following business function object CRM_COMPL_ARM_1 needs to be activated. Once the business function object is activated the customization settings can be viewed in the following node under


CRM-Transactions-Settings for Complaints-Integration-Logistics Integration-Advance Returns Management




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Following Catalogs from K1 to K5 also get activated in crm base customization, they can be seen in the following menu path

CRM- Basic Functions-Catalogs Codes and Profiles, These fields should not be copied to custom fields as they do not work in the transaction hence standard fields provided by SAP should be used during customization 🙂


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Business Function Object Activation in ERP


The following business function objects need to be activated in the ERP Module. The help document of SAP mentions only one object however we had a tough time to get the other objects activated  😥

These objects in ERP are required namely to perform the configurations in SAP ERP and to ensure an error free system when the advance complaint transaction triggers the advance return order in SAP ERP.


a) SD_01

b) ESOA_OPS01

c) OPS_ADVRETURNS_2

d) LOG_SD_SIMP_02

e) LOG_SD_C1_01


The Configuration Settings in ERP need to be performed under the below menu path

Logistics General- Advance Returns Management


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Design Considerations in SAP CRM

The line item level fields namely( Return Reason, Follow Up Activity, Refund Control and Refund Type) in Advance Complaint Management which are highlighted below are important since these item level fields control the subsequent process which needs to get triggered in SAP ECC. These fields need to be enabled from Available to Display which helps us to view these fields in the advance complaint transaction.


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Similarly certain fields need to be entered when the line item is edited hence the component which is highlighted below needs to be activated using the configure page icon as shown in the below screen shot.

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Triggering Advance Return Order in ERP , Credit Memo and Replacement Scenario’s

The second line item which is the return request item triggers the Advance Return Order in SAP ERP, ensure that copy controls have been maintained with the first line item which is the complaint item. The status of the second line item should be in release mode as shown below. Document types(Advance Complaint and Advance Return Order) in SAP CRM and ERP should be the same along with the return item category in both systems.The mapping of the ERP Order Type and Item Category needs to be mapped with the CRM Item category which needs to be done in CRM base Customization. Item level field Refund type which is highlighted below controls if you need to give a credit memo to the customer by triggering a credit memo document in SAP ERP or by selecting the refund type as replacement the replacement order in SAP ERP gets triggered automatically during customer returns. If along with the Advance Returns Order the Return Delivery and the Post Goods Receipt needs to be created automatically then the field immediately should be selected in refund control. SAP Notes 2082743 and 2074829 can be considered when implementing the credit memo process and SAP Note 2178689 for the replacement process. These notes are relevant from the ERP side.


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In House and External Repair Scenario’s

The field follow up Activity needs to be selected if an in house repair or external repair scenario needs to be implemented. Subsequent processing like Repair Order and its follow up documents would be processed in ERP. Other options include Immediately move to Specified Stock and Transfer to Specific Stock. The SAP Help document gives a detailed write up about the actions which the follow up activity perform in ERP.


http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_06/helpdata/en/e3/9b7fc41e21465498820a32fe158821/content.htm




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Design Considerations in SAP ERP


In SAP ERP the correct document types need to be selected. RE2 Document type is the standard document provided for Advance Returns Management, RA2 is the document provided for repair and SD2 is the document for replacement. Ensure that  required copy control settings are maintained for the respective delivery document along with assignments like item category determination,pricing, sales area assignments to document types and incomplete procedures. If documents in ERP do not get created automatically check if the document’s are incomplete or if they are blocked because of a credit check which need to be released through transaction vkm5. Ensure that the relevant document types which are customized  are marked as relevant for Advance Complaint Management in SAP ERP in base customization.


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Kind Regards

Atul



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  5. Former Member

    Hi Atul

    thanks for the useful info and wonderful work

    we are facing some issues while configuring

    1. reason codes are not downloading from ECC though exactly we are following as per the standard and MW shows in green with the download
    2. while creating a Return order the system throws a error saying no item1000 is allowed even though we are following the standard configuration of Maintaining the Return item as the sub-tem for the complaint item ( item category) – any thoughts on this please if you have faced the similar situation

      thanks Kumar

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    1. Atul Keshav Post author

      Hello Sravan,

      Can you please open a new thread for your issue you  do not have to download the reason codes as far as my understanding goes.

      Kind Regards.
      Atul

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  6. Former Member

    Hello Atul,

    Thank you for you good document.

    Now, I’m working on ARM and I’m stuck in process to create ARM order in ERP,

    a BDOC is getting yellow with status ‘Sent’ and CRM inbound Q (SMQ2) occurs Qname

    ‘R3AD_RESPONS’ with status ‘SYSFAIL’ and with message ‘Action could not be performed. See

    note 0490748.’.

    Requesting you to share and appreciate, if you do have a step by step configuration document on

    ARM in SAP CRM so that I can cross check my system with your config guide.

     

    Thank you.

    Sirima D.

     

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    1. Atul Keshav Post author

      Hello Nuchaya,

       

      Sorry for the late reply is your issue resolved. Are you replicating an advanced complaint document as an advanced return order in erp?

       

      Kind Regards

      Atul

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      1. Former Member

        Hi Atul,

        Good document to follow. Thanks for sharing such a good blog.

        We are also implementing ARM, just would like to know do we need to replicate complaint document to S4 or will it user LORD framework create Return sales order from complaint document ?

        We have tried with LORD framework but return document is not getting created in S4. Any thoughts will be really appreciated.

        Thanks & Regards,

        Neeraj

         

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        1. Atul Keshav Post author

          Hello Shahid,

           

          Sorry about the late reply its really difficult to tell what configurations you missed out, Yes it does use the lord framework, is it possible for you to raise an SAP OSS Message to get this resolved

           

          Kind Regards

          Atul

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