Cash Management

Question

Hello All,
Would appreciate guidance wrt implementation of Cash Management.
We would be using LSMW for update our Master data with the Planning Groups / levels.
However, not aware of the Cash Management Implementation Tool and it's associated problems.
Our understanding of FDFD is (execute the following):
- Activate Company Code,
- Data setup - We don't intend using any of those expect FI-GL, FI-AR & FI-AP
- Data Reconciliation - do we need this ? What parameters; only main Bank accounts?
- Data Correction - do we need this ? when, only if there are errors
- Customising - ok
- Cust / Vend Data - not using this program, any impact?
The above is being implemented in ECC 6.environment (with FI being used). A heads up on the above would be highly appreciated, Thanking you in anticipation,
Regards, Raj

Answer 1

Hi,
Please go through the following documentation:
Report for Dynpro: SAPMFFD1
Description
    Transaction FDFD was developed mainly as a tool to support
    implementation of the cash management and forecast (CM&F). You can
    activate the CM&F update for company codes; table settings are checked
    as you do so. The planning groups needed for the CM&F updates can be
    entered in vendor and customer master records, making partial/complete
    reconstruction of the totals records easier.
    The program consiss of five subareas which can be reached by means of
    status buttons: 1. Activate company code
                    2. Vendor/customer data
                    3. Data setup
                    4. Data reconciliation
                    5. Data correction
1.) Activate company code
  When you activate a company code for CM&F, this makes it possible to
  update planning data in money transactions relevant to planning. There
  is a further indicator for the update from each of MM and SD which you
  must set if you want the data from those areas to be passed to CM&F.
  When you activate, all the table settings are check and, where
  necessary, carried out.
2.) Vendor/customer data
  You can use this function to include planning groups in the vendor/
  customer master records. These planning groups are a necessary criterion
  for recording open items in CM&F.
  The lines in the table represent selection criteria for the various
  groups. The logic used is as follows:
  The priorities merely assign rankings. Priority 1 is the highest. The
  system checks this criterion first. If the vendor/customer satisfies
  this criterion, the group for this record is entered into the master
  record.
  Example :
Prio. Ctry Frm pymt trm To pymt term Dunn. Pymt mtd       Group        Pymt hist.
   1    US    ZB01              ZB05       0001    U             E1             X
   2    US                                                                       E2
   3                                                                                 OTHER
Vendors/customers who satisfy the criteria in line 1 are assigned
planning group E1 and the flag for recording the payment history is set.
All other customers in the US receive group 2; foreign customers are
assigned group "OTHER":
To ensure that every master record is assigned a planning group, you
should always specify at least one structure (with lowest priority)
which a vendor/customer fits if no other is suitable.
You can use the "Check" button to determine the number of master records
to which no group has yet been assigned.
Use the menu option "Download/upload" menu option to store the selection
criteria locally and import them again later.
) Data Setup
In data setup, you can copy documents and open items, along with plan
records and account balances, already in the system into CM&F.
Here, you can stipulate whether the data setup should cover the data
from SD and MM, along with agency business or data from Treasury
Management.
You run the transfer programs as background jobs, for which you can
enter a scheduled date and time. We recommend you schedule the job to
run at night because postings made during the data setup may lead to
data inconsistencies in CM&F.
Note that the first step in the data setup deletes all the planning
data.
In the case of data from manual planning (plan items, payment advice
notes), the system generates a special query because this data cannot be
retrieved once deleted. If you want to retain this data, answer "No" to
the query.
) Data Reconciliation
A program is available to level the CM&F data which you can schedule
from here as a batch job. For more information, see the program
documentation.
) Data Correction
If a data inconsistency occures between CM&F and the actual data, you
can use this option to avoid having to reconstruct all the data. The
reconstruction can be limited, depending on where the inconsistency
originated. For more information, see the program documentation.
If useful, assign points.
Thanks