ICR - Process and selection criteria

Question

Dear experts,
We are thinking about implementing ICR tool next year.
In terms of faisability, I was wondering about the folllowing:
1/ Our need is to reconciliate G/L accounts, payable/receivable accounts, P&L accounts. In that case, which process should be implemented?
2/ We have various ways to identify an intercompany document. Is is possible to use other fields instead of 'trading partner' in FBICSx to select documents?
3/ I've read there is a delta mode for selection. If we change value of reference field in a document which was already selected, will it be selected again in the delta or only new documents will be included?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Ben

Answer 1

Hello Ben,
Re #1: This depends on your specific requirements. The usual approach is to implement either process 001 or process 003 to deal with open items (payables and receivables) and to use process 002 to deal with any accounts that do not have open item management. The main difference between processes 001 and 003 is that in 001 you have one account field while you have 2 fields in 003. If you integrate AR/AP open items into process 001 the standard logic will put customer or vendor number into the account field. If you integrate GL open items into process 003 the standard logic will put the GL account number into the field for customer account. If you do not like the standard logic you can always change it in a BADI implementation
Re #2: The standard logic requires the partner to either be assigned to the customer/vendor/GL account or to be posted in the open item in case of GL open items. For customer and vendor accounts you could change the partner assignment in the master data of the account and then all open items for that account will get the "new" partner assignment during data selection. If the standard logic does not find all the open items you need then you can implement your own logic in BADI method CHANGE_DATA_TABLE_SENDER_SYS to add these open items to ICR. For process 002 the documents that are included in ICR depends mainly on your ledger selection in the sender system. However, here the partner assignment also has to be available for correct processing in ICR. You could use an exit implementation for the field movement to populate the partner during posting to the SL.
Re #3: For open items this is part of the standard logic. For open items all open items are transferred each time you run data selection meaning that any changes to the original document will be copied into ICR. For process 002 document changes are not taken into account. Only newly posted documents are transferred. However, you could delete and retransfer the data. But this would result in loss of manual assignments.
Best regards,
Ralph