Purpose
You can use this function to carry out the final settlement forrebate agreements so that there is always a payment with the valuezero in the result.
This function is relevant for Trade Promotion Management (TPM), acomponent of CRM Marketing. The function supports you in planning,carrying out, and managing marketing activities in the followingprocesses:

• Funds management (Trade Funds Management, TFM)


• Claims management (Trade Claims Management, TCM)

Integration
In Customizing for Trade Promotion Management, you can specifywhether an agreement type should be settled using Funds and ClaimsManagement.


• Agreements with this agreement type are excluded from the standard
settlement process in the ERP system. If you process the rebateagreements in the Carry Out Rebate Settlementtransaction, the activities are deactivated.

• These agreements are not selected by the standard reports for rebate
settlement.
Once the agreements have been released for final settlement in the CRMsystem, you can finalize the agreements in the ERP system.
A final settlement with the value = 0 is created during the finalizationprocess. The system clears any open accruals and sets the status of theagreement to D (finally settled).

Prerequisites
For agreements that are to be settled using Funds and Claims Management,note the following features in the ERP system:


• The agreements themselves do not have a settlement period,
since the payments are initiated exclusively by an external system suchas Claims Management. The periodic indicator, which enablesExtended Rebate Settlement, should therefore not be used forthese agreements.

• The finalization results in a credit memo both for rebate settlement in
the standard system and for Extended Rebate Processing. SpecialCustomizing settings are therefore required in copy control for thefinal settlement document.
In Customizing for Sales and Distribution, you can use thefollowing agreement types as examples for defining your owncustomer-specific agreement types:
CF04 (standard)
CFE4 (extended)

Features
The system determines the rebate agreements based on the selectionparameters you have entered.


• The sales volume and the accruals to be cleared are calculated for each
rebate agreement.

• The system logs and displays the results.

You can also carry out the following actions with this function:

• Issue verification level

The system also outputs the drill-down (documents) of the relevantagreements for the sales volume list.
This function is only available for background processing.

• Control run

This action is relevant for rebate agreements with the statusfinally settled. By selecting this, these agreements can besettled again. If there is a deviation from the original settlement,another credit memo is created accordingly. The reason for the deviationmight be incorrect data or billing documents that are subsequentlyposted for an agreement that has already been settled.