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What is the difference between open item and open item

management ?
Open item: open item is an item which has to be cleared with
another line item.

Open item management: how you want to manage all the open item
in particular GL A/C.

Open item management is the setting which allows the setting to


maintain the open items for the particular GL account.

Use of open item : Processing open items involves choosing and then
activating the open items. Processing is the last step before posting a
clearing document.  When posting clearing documents, the system
takes tolerances into account. Tolerances are acceptable payment
differences.

While GL creation we have to tick boxes which say open item


Managed and line item display.

If you tick open item managed, then when you view the ledger of
this particular GL accounts, all items which are opened (not cleared)
will appear in red and those which are cleared will appear in green

Partial Payment Scenario

Let’s assume your company offers services to a customer X and


produced an outgoing invoice of $500. Now, when the customer is
making a payment, the payment is not made in full. The customer is
paying only $200. This transaction, when a customer is not making
payment for the full invoice amount, is what we call a partial
payment. When a partial payment of $200 is done, it does not
cancel the initial invoice of $500 but the system adds a new line
item of $200 which will reduce the amount the customer owes
the company to $300.

Residual Payment Scenario

Let’s assume your company offers services to a customer Y and


produced an outgoing invoice of $500. Now when the customer is
making a payment, the payment is not made in full. The customer is
paying only $200. When the customer is making a payment of $200
and the residual payment method is used, the system will cancel
the original line item of $500 and create a new invoice line item
of $300 which is the residual after the payment of $200

SAP partial and residual payments are useful methods of processing


partial incoming payments and partial outgoing payments. These
methods have the same effect to the balances of vendor or customer
accounts but they have different effects on line items in financial
documents. For a partial payment, the initial invoice and the
payment items remain on the account. On the other hand, a residual
payment results in new document with a reference to the original
document.
Take an example of misc. purchases FOR OPEN ITEM
MANAGEMENT

When you purchase from vendor you pass the following entry.

Dr. Material / Expenses A/c.

Cr. Vendor account (if it is credit purchase)

Now the vendor account is showing credit balance till you make
payment to the vendor. This in SAP they call is open item.

While making payment

Dr. Vendor account

Cr. Cash / Bank account

If once you make the payment to vendor, while making the payment
to the vendor, you need to link the payment with lying open item of
above purchase. System automatically changes the status of
above open item (red colour ball) to cleared item (green colour
ball) in the vendor account.

AP  AR

What
Invoice posting against a Invoice issued to a
generates the
Vendor account Customer
open item
What will
drive the close Payment made to the Payment received from the
of the open Vendor Customer
item

How the open Invoice is cleared with Invoice is cleared with


item will be payment resulting 0 payment received
closed in SAP balance; resulting 0 balance;

     

Open Item Management and Account Types

For general payables and receivables, open item management is


performed in the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable
subledgers. You can therefore only apply open item management to
the following account types:

 Other Assets

 Other Liabilities

 Equity

Accounts that are managed on an open item basis include:

 Clearing accounts
 Bank clearing account
 Payroll clearing account
 Cash discount clearing account
 GR/IR clearing account
Accounts that are not managed on an open item basis

 Bank account
 Tax accounts
 Raw material accounts

When the line item(s) you enter and the open item(s) you process
have been cleared, you can post a clearing document. 

For example, if you enter a vendor payment for $1000, you must
choose and process vendor open items that equal $1000. If your
system permits a 1% tolerance, then you can clear open items with a
value from $990 to $1010.

When you process open items, you can:

- Activate or deactivate open items 


- Activate or deactivate cash discount 
- Maintain cash discount amounts 
- Enter partial payments or residual items

Open Item:
Clearing Item

SAP Open Items in Accounts Payable


To view open items for accounts payable, navigate to the following path in SAP menu:

Financial Accounting -> General Ledger -> Account -> Display/Change Line Items

Or directly start the transaction FBL1N from the command field. Enter Vendor


account number and Company code. And then, select Open items to view open items.
Input the key date for open items view.
SAP Vendor Open Items Display
The transaction is displaying the Open Items marked with red in the Status column. There
is no Clearing document for the moment, because this document will be cleared as per the
date from Net due date column when the invoice will be paid.
SAP Vendor Open Items (Example)

SAP Open Items in Accounts Receivables


To view open items for accounts receivables, navigate to the following path in SAP menu:

Financial Accounting -> General Ledger -> Account -> Display/Change Line Items

Or directly start the transaction FBL5N from the command field. Enter the Customer


account number and Company code. Then, select Open items to view open items. Input
the key date for open items view.
SAP Customer Open Items Display
The transaction is displaying the Open Items marked with red in the Status column. There
is no Clearing document for the moment because this document will be cleared as per the
date from Net due date column when the payment from the customer will be received.
SAP Customer Open Items (Example)

SAP Open Items in General Ledger


To view open items for General Ledger (G/L), navigate to the following path in SAP menu:

Financial Accounting -> General Ledger -> Account -> Display/Change Line Items

Or directly start the transaction FBL3N from the command field. Enter the G/L


Account number and Company code. And then, select Open items to view open items.
Input the key date for open items view.
SAP General Ledger Open Items Display

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