Dear Experts,
I had some doubts related to balance of fund usage in Trade Funds Mgmt.
I have gone through SAP help and material but the following questions remain unanswered.
1. I read that CRM_TPM_1 is required for the functionality "balance Fund Usages".
Is business function activation of CRM_CF_1 also required to achieve the functionality of balancing of Funds Usage?
2. I know balancing of Funds Usage will release unconsumed budget back to the Fund.
For e.g. consider the following key-figures of Fund checkbook.
Budget = 1000, Reserved = 500,
So Available-to-Reserve will be 500
Available-to-Spend & Remaining Cash will still be 1000.
Now if Settled = 300, Available-to-Spend & Remaining Cash will become 700 but Available-to-Reserve will still be 500.
Now if there are no more Settled amounts to be updated in Fund checkbook, Unconsumed budget = difference between planned spends and actuals = 500 - 300 = 200.
So this amount of 200 needs to be release back to Fund.
So once I do balance of Fund Usage, where (in which key-figure) will this amount of 200 be added back?
Will this be added to key-figure Available-to-Reserve?
3. When will I do the balance of Fund Usages?
Is it when a Trade Promotion is closed and I am sure that no more actual spends will occur with respect to the Trade Promotion?
4. How will I do the balance of Fund Usages?
Suppose a Fund has multiple Fund Usages which has references to many Trade Promotions e.g. say T1, T2 and T3.
Now T1 is closed and I don't expect any more actuals w.r.t. T1, do I need to balance ONLY those Fund Usages which refer to T1?
If 'yes', does it mean that if there are 5 Fund Usages with respect to T1, do I select all 5 Fund Usages and click on button "Balance Fund Usages" ?
Somehow I am not able to see any result of doing "Balance Fund Usage" in my system so I am not able to verify the above points myself.
Please reply if you have set-up and worked on this scenario because theoretical material is not helping.
Regards
Animesh