Business scenario..for ISU and integration with R/3 modules..

Question

Scenario: 
1.     Client is providing Utility services to the customer and also to its own employees.
The service is also consumed by the employees who are treated as contract partners in ISU. The constraint is that the utility bill has to be deducted from their payroll, which is deducted monthly using a wage type from their pay roll, which is in SAP R/3.
2.     Similarly some of the contract partners are also vendors to the client (the vendor and contract partner is same). The consumption of utility bill is adjusted to the payment made by the client to vendor. 
Questions :
1.     How we can deduct the utility bill of the employees from their payroll. Is there any integration of ISU with HR ?
2.               Also how  can we clear the receivables in FICA since data can be pushed from FICA to FICO thru reconciliation keys but not vice versa ?
3.     How can the utility bill be deducted from vendor’s account and there is no standard link between vendor master to contract partner in ISU.
     Can anybody suggest any standard solution for these two scenarios or  any work arounds .
Early solutions are highly appriciated
Thanks and Regards

Answer 1

Hello,
Please look into my answers below:
Questions:
1.     How we can deduct the utility bill of the employees from their payroll. Is there any integration of ISU with HR?
i.     There is no integration between ISU with HR.  What you need to do is that create separate account determination id <say HR> and use this id in Contract account to identify that a particular contract account is an employee related ID.
ii.     Now at the end of the day or month collect the O/s balances of all the employee contracts in a form of flat file, use a BDC program to update the data in the HR table PA0014 <Please confirm with your HR colleague too> so that their pay would be = Actual payroll-Amount due.
iii.     After the above step, make sure that you run FPY1 <Payment run program> to clear all employee open items. You can have a separate payment method for Employees and attach the same in contract account
iv.     You can create a separate ‘Z’ table to map Employee ID with a contract number so that during creation of flat file in step 1.ii above, your job becomes easier.
2. Also how can we clear the receivables in FICA since data can be pushed from FICA to FICO thru reconciliation keys but not vice versa?
i.     Please refer to point 1.iv above. You need to run FPY1 Payment run to clear employee receivables in FICA.
3. How can the utility bill be deducted from vendor’s account and there is no standard link between vendor master to contract partner in ISU.
i.     There is no integration between ISU with AP.  What you need to do is that create separate account determination id <say AP> and use this id in Contract account to identify that a particular contract account is a Vendor related ID.
ii.     Now at the end of the day or month collect the O/s balances of all the vendors in a form of flat file, use a BDC program to update the data in the AP table BSIK so that amount to be collected from vendor = Actual amount-Amount due.
iii.     After the above step, make sure that you run FPY1 <Payment run program> to clear all Vendor open items. You can have a separate payment method for Vendor-Contract Accounts and attach the same in contract account
iv.     You can create a separate ‘Z’ table to map Vendor number with a contract number so that during creation of flat file in step 1.ii above, your job becomes easier.
Additional points to be considered
1.     Check if at all separate clearing rules are needed for Employee- Contract accounts, Vendor-Contract Accounts & other contract accounts.
2.     Verify FM ‘COMPUTE_CONTRACT ACCOUNT_BALANCES’ is useful in obtaining the balances of contract accounts <I do not have SAP ISU active system with me else I would have provided correct FM>
3.     There may be performance issues based on the volumes of the data.
Rgds
Rajendra