Pre-requisite of Electronic BRS

Question

Hi,
My client's requirement is to use electronic bank statement. For this I need to configure the steps as mentioned in SPRO for electronic bank statement.
I went through the posts in SDN forum. But i want to know the pre-requisites (like interface required for Electronic BRS, Multicash format from banks, etc) required for Electronic BRS.
My client does not have any interface or Mullticash format. It just downloads statement from internet and does manual BRS.
Please let me know if EBRS possible in such scenario
Edited by: Meenu_ND on May 5, 2011 9:58 AM

Answer 1

Meenu-
Implementing Electronic Bank Statement is going to be quite a task:
1. First thing would be to ask your bank in which format they can provide you the statement.  Lets say they provide you in BAI Format.
2. Then you would have to get a list of BAI Codes that will be used by your bank in their statements.
3. Get a list of bank accounts that you would be uploading electronically in SAP
4. Based on your company GL Account structure, create all the clearing accounts that are needed (cash receipt, cash disbursement, check receipt, check disbursement, clearing accounts etc).
5. Configure EBS in the system which includes creating BAI Codes, mapping accounts to bai codes, assigning your bank account numbers to company codes to BAI Structure.
Again, it all depends on what format you will be using. In US, we use BAI format and it is pretty straightforward task.
Hope this helps.
Shail