Purpose
With program SAPFPAYM_MERGE you can group together payments fromseveral payment runs and transfer them together on payment media.

Integration
The required functions are supported in the payment programs forvendors and customers (F110), for payment requests (F111) and also inall DME preliminary programs for payroll and travel expenses.

Prerequisites
You have to reserve payment run identifiers that can only be processedusing cross-payment run payment media. The Customizing setting
Reservation for Cross-Payment Run Payment Mediais used for this.

Features
The payment programs use the Customizing settings described toautomatically determine that the payments can only be further processedby program SAPFPAYM_MERGE. The conventional payment programs (RFFO*)and the Payment Medium Workbench (PMW) respondwith the appropriate error message.

Selection
Program SAPFPAYM_MERGE selects in accordance with the selection optionsany payments not yet processed from payment runs whose identificationis reserved. It is possible to summarize payments from F110 and F111,and likewise payroll and travel expenses. However, you cannot mixpayments from FI and HR.

Output
Firstly, the program creates a payment medium run that you can displaylike a payment run using the usual lists (for example,RFZALI20). In addition, you can list the open andprocessed payments using report RFMPAY00.
Secondly, the generic payment medium program for thePMW is started for this payment medium run that creates the paymentmedium. The output is detailed in the related job log, and amongstother things payment media are created in DMEadministration and also print output.

Note

How to proceed when errors occur
If Payment Medium Workbench (PMW) formats havebeen assigned to the payment methods used, then the payment media (asdescribed above) are created when you start program SAPFPAYM_MERGE.Should any errors occur, you can create the payment media bysubsequently starting the generic payment medium programSAPFPAYM.

Using the conventional payment medium programs
The function can best be used in connection with payment methods thatuse the PMW. You can use the conventional payment medium programs(RFFO*) if you have deactivated configurable message FZ113
. However, in this case the creation of the payment media is notstarted automatically with SAPFPAYM_MERGE. For payment medium runs forFI you can schedule the payment medium programs via the standardpayment programs (F110 oder F111), providing no more than ten paymentmethods are contained in the payment medium run.