Reg:Grouping Key

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How to pay single check to multiple vendors

Dear,
Group key in the vendor master is used to group all the Vendors with same kind of business, and it is not possible to give one check to multiple vendors unless otherwise they have a mutual understanding out side of sap. That mean they will encash one check given to one vendor and distribute among themselves accordingly.

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F110 Grouping Key Issue

I have 3 open items for a vendor - 2 credit memos (with 1000 and 600 amounts ) and one invoice (with amount 600). In the current situation, these items are not offset against each other as they have different payment methods, payment supplement code etc etc. The only common factor between these items is the company code and the vendor number.
And the current requirement is that, only these 2 fields - company code and vendor number need to be considered in offsetting the open items and all the other fields including the payment method etc should be ignored. So, after some research - I figured out that there is something called a grouping key that can be set in the configuration using transaction OBAP. I set the grouping key in OBAP. And this grouping key needs to be used in the vendor master screen for payments for that particular vendor so that all the other parameters will be overridden by this grouping key. FYI..I set this grouping key 02 to use only the vendor number.
Technically.. SAP says this should work. They also say that if it does not work, go and generate the program RSZGR000 as this program contains the respective code to make the payment run program understand that the grouping key is the overriding factor. So, I generated this program too and made sure the code exists. This grouping key is populated in the structure ZHLG1-PAYGR and the payment run program is supposed to understand that this is the overriding field for offsetting the invoices against credit memos. I debugged the payment run proposal and saw that it is populating this field in the structure.
So, I do all this and yet, my open items are not cleared using JUST the Company & vendor. It is still looking for the other fields like payment methods, supplment code etc.
I was looking up at the note 164835 and found that for automatic payment transactions the following fields need to be same for the documents that are being offset with each other: Currency, Receiver, Payment Mthod in the Item and Bank Details in the item.
I was assuming that once the grouping key is populated and used, all the other fields above should be ignored for offsetting.
Any help in this matter would be appreciated!!

I do not think that is the issue here. The issue here is that the payment methods are different for these invoices/cedit memos. One of the Credit Memo's has a blank payment method. So, the automatic payment program is not picking that document with blank payment method.
Invoice 1 has payment method C
Credit Memo 1 has payment method S
Credit Memo 2has payment method as blank
There is an option in the Automatic Payment Transactions screen where you enter the company code and payment methods. In the payment methods, we can enter multiple ones - so, I added S and C, but there is no way to tell the program to pick documents with blank payment methods too.
That is why the Credit memo2 is left out and not settled with other documents.
Please let me know if there is a way out for this.

How to Decativate the Grouping key in Vendor Master?

Hello All,
I'm trying to create a Vendor from the transaction code FK01, I fill up all the details and when i come to the dinning part of the master it does let me save the vendor and asks for a "Valid Grouping Key"....i have checked with spro setting for Define Layout per company code (Vendor), there the radio button is at OPTIONAL for Dunning Area.
How can i get the system saving the vendor without asking me for a Grouping Key?
Thanks,
Tushar

Hi ,
Go to the vendor account group field status Filed status and supress the Single pmnt, grp key, PM supl field.
Company code data>Payment transactions>Single pmnt, grp key, PM supl.
Regards
Surya

How to get group key from a task assignment adapter

Hi All,
Senario:
I have two groups, say G1 and G2.
One Access policy, say P. (This access policy is associated with AD resource.)
AD Resource Object R.
I have defined an Approval process for Resource R.
Access policy P is assigned to both Group G1 and G2.
This Access Policy P is linked to Resource R
According to above configuration,
When I add User U1 to Group G1 ( or G2 ) through "Group Membership", Access Policy P is executed and the approval process which associate with the Resource R is executed.
In my Approval process, I have a task assignment adapter.
Within my adapter, I want to get the group key, which cause to fires this approval process. ( It may be G1's key or G2's key. )
Could some one help me for this ?
Regards,
Thirlk
Edited by: thirlk on Jun 28, 2009 10:55 PM

See this thread
Working on the same requirement.
How to get the administrator group of a group from a approval process
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Apple TV and Time Capsule 802.11n -- idle timeout and group key stuff...

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What seems to be happening is that when the idle disconnect occurs, the AppleTV renews its connection. The problem, at least 90% of the time, is that if the "group key timeout" value in the Airport Admin Utility has been passed AND the idle timeout occurs, the unit appears to be unable to connect to the network unless you reboot OR reenter the network password.
The Time Capsule is setup strictly from a networking standpoint as a wireless bridge -- I have an existing network DHCP server, and during the disconnects, a DHCP renewal is not occurring.
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Selecting Semantic Group Key Fields for Cube to Cube DTP

Is it possible to use the semantic group key fields selection when performing a DTP between two infoCubes? When I try to select the key field of 0CALWEEK, i am unable to as the selection screen is grayed out like I'm in display mode even though I'm in change mode for the DTP.
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Hi,
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Grouping vendor payments using Grouping key issue

Hello Gurus,
I created a new grouping key in config to be assigned to the vendor master (under Payments Transactions Accounting). The grouping key fields used were BUDAT (Posting Date) and ZFBDT (Baseline Payment Date). The automatic payment program should group payments to vendors based on this grouping key.
This solution works fine when the vendors have a negative amount in the automatic payment program run. However, if the vendor has a positive balance (due to payroll related adjustments), the payment program will not process the line item. Since we are grouping open vendor items by posting date and baseline payment date, the system treats this as a unique grouping key and is not clearing against any subsequent payment runs (because of different posting date and baseline date).
Is there a way to clear the positive balance without manual intervention? The solution works fine otherwise.
Thanks for your help.
- Tarun

Hello,
Functionally, a credit amount means it is treated as an Invoice. Meaning that your company is required to make the payment to the vendor. In other words, your company liable to make the payment for the minus amounts.
Whereas, the debit entries are nothing but debit notes, in sap you call as credit memo. These are NOT to be paid to the vendor. You need to adjust them from the invoice amounts (minus figures) before making the payment.
I would suggest you run F-44 or F.13 to clear them (net of minus and plus values). Then you will have only minus figures. Later you run F110.
If you want to clear them automatically in F.13, you should have configuration (criteria) in OB74.
Please let me know if you need any further details.
Regards,
Ravi

Grouping key Vs Payment method supplement in vendor master data

Hi All,
Could you please explain me as to when we can use grouping key and in what situations to use payment method supplement.
They both looks like for grouping open items during payment .
I know the config steps for grouping key and payment method supplement.
I would like to know the different business usages of these fields.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
DSK

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
My aim is to group certain documents while F110 payments to a vendor (grouping based on a custom field)
So how can I achieve this - is it through grouping key or payment supplement and how to make settings in FBZP.
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GAN

Grouping Key

Hi Gurus,
I was create a Grouping Key 02. This GK was stored in the master record of the vendor. But, does not work the way i expect it to.
In the Grouping Key; in the frame of "Fields for grouping payments" i put only the field LIFNR. This means that in the payment program' i want to group the Open Item by vendor. But doesnt work
Can anyone explain to me what happens or if something is missing/
Tks.

Hi,
The grouping key represents a rule according to which the open items of Vendor accounts are to be grouped together for payment/ Dunning. For creation of Grouping key for dunning, T code is OBAQ and for payment grouping T code is OBAP. By these T codes you can create the Grouping Keys and assign these keys at the time of creation of Vendor Master. So while running the report for payment/ dunning, you can extract the report by Grouping Keys.
You can get the vendor line item reports by Grouping Keys.
Thanks,
Regards,
Ramnath.

F110 - Grouping key

Hello,
Requirement is like: when we do F110, payment should be done by Vendor and PO no. means
Vendor1     PO no 1     RE document 1        for this three invoice document only one payment doc
                                     RE document 2
                                     RE document 3
Vendor1     PO no 2     RE document 1        for this two invoice document only one payment doc
                                     RE document 2
I have used the grouping key in vendor master but still system is posting one payment document only because Vendor is one only.
If we maintain the grouping key then in vendor master then from where the key is getting fetch.
Regards,
Amit mistry

Hi Amit,
It is not possible to group by the purchasing document number in standard.
Please review notes 305414 and 164835 for further info regarding the grouping of documents. Grouping is done based on the fields in structure ZHLG1.
Also to define grouping key in OBAP, check the fields available, PO number is not part of this.
In general as explained in note 152335, the display of the purchasing document number for customers/vendors via the line item display is not possible. However, you can branch from the vendors/customers line item display into the document overview and there display the purchasing document number for the individual G/L account line items. Since it is not filled in the vendor line item the same cannot be used for grouping etc.
Hope this information helps.
Kind Regards
Soumya

Report on field Corporate Group (Group key) of the Vendor Master

Hi,
We have a vendor with for example 4 different locations. In SAP we have therefore 4 different vendor masters. We want to report not only per seperate vendor master but also we want to report on the vendors corporate level. Now we have populated the field Corporate group (Group key) on all 4 vendor masters.
Are there any financial reports where you can use the field Corporate group (Group key) from the vendor master to consolidate on?
If there are other solutions for reporting in this case then please let me know.
Regards,
Roel van Loon

Hi
I hope it is corporate group under account control tab in VM general data. If you maintain any data here - you can use vendor open line item report (FBl1n) to get the report on open items cleared items for these vendors collectively. You can see this option in dynamic selection in report - vendor master tab.
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Edited by: Praveen Raghavendra on Jan 16, 2009 2:38 PM

Standard reports using Corporate Group key

Hi Experts,
Can any one let me know the list of standard reports available in MM using the corporate group key (in vendor master)?
Suitable answers will be rewarded.
Thanks & Regards,
Pushparaj S.

Hi,
Some of the useful MM reports,
MB51 Material Doc. List
MB5L List of Stock Values: Balances
MBBS Display valuated special stock
MC$G PURCHIS: Material PurchVal Selection
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MC.1 INVCO: Plant Anal. Selection: Stock
MC.2 INVCO: Plant Anal.Selection, Rec/Iss
MC.5 INVCO: SLoc Anal. Selection, Stock
MC.9 INVCO: Material Anal.Selection,Stock
MC.A INVCO: Mat.Anal.Selection, Rec/Iss
MC.L INVCO: Mat.Group Analysis Sel. Stock
MC48 INVCO: Anal. of Current Stock Values
MC50 INVCO: Analysis of Dead Stock
MCBA INVCO: Plant Analysis Selection
MCBC INVCO: Stor. Loc. Analysis Selection
MCBE INVCO: Material Analysis Selection
MCBK INVCO: MatGrp Analysis Selection
MCBR INVCO: Batch Analysis Selection
MCE1 PURCHIS: PurchGrp Analysis Selection
MCE3 PURCHIS: Vendor Analysis Selection
MCE5 PURCHIS: MatGrp Analysis Selection
MCE7 PURCHIS: Material Analysis Selection
MCW3 PURCHIS: Evaluate VBD Header
MCW4 PURCHIS: Evaluate VBD Item
ME2L Purchase Orders by Vendor
ME2M Purchase Orders by Material
ME2N Purchase Orders by PO Number
MIR6 Invoice Overview
MMBE Stock Overview
S_ALR_87012086 Vendor list
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In MBLB we can see the over all stock value at vendor side. If I refer it in MB51 (For particular period movement type as 541 and Specila stock as u201Cou201D it shows the local currency value is zero....)
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In MBBS we can see the stock value upto date.
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MB5T - Diplay of Stock In Transit
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MC46 - Slow-Moving Items
MC50 - Dead Stock
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MBKM

Group key

Hi
What is use of group key in vendor/customer master data? with example
Regards
Suresh

Hi,
Please find the below link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/01/a9be71455711d182b40000e829fbfe/content.htm
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How to create a matchcode for the list of Customers "Group key" KNA1-KONZS

Hi All,
with reference to the creation of "Group key" KNA1-KONZS for Customers,
I'd like to know if is possible to create a matchcode for the list of Customers "Group key" created.
Thanks
Gandalf

Hi
MAINTAIN THE GROUP KEY IN GENERAL DATA ---CONTROL DATA SCREEN
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Setup group category & setup group Key.

Dear Friends,
I am facing some problem in setup group category... Please check this scenario and let me know...if anybody is having any idea about this...
My scenario is: I am having a single work center... on which I can do some machining activity.This WC is used in 100 material routings. but all my 100 materials are grouped into 5 categories. based on the dia... for example 100-120 dia one group 121-140 dia another group like that. If my two successive materials are belong to same group..then.. I donot have any setup time. if my two success materials scheduled on that machine are not belong to same group...then I am having 5 hrs of setup time.
so here setup time I can not mention in the routing...
this can be achieved by setup group and setup group key...and through capacity leveling... we can insert this setup time as per the matrix... in the matrix we need to define the setup times between two different groups..
And here the setup time is almost equal to machining time of one material. max.. they can do 3 materials machining only.. if there is no setup in a day of 16 hrs working. So manageement wants to minimize setup time... so grouping of the materials should be based on the Dia... this is the requirement.
I hope u understood my requirement...
Actually I maintained all the setup group categories, setup group keys in the routing and I maintained setup matrix also...
But during the finite scheduling through Capacity leveling I am not able to consider the setup time in the production order.... This is the problem I am facing... If anybody is having any idea...please share with me..
Regards,
Surya.

Hi Suryanarayana,
I see that you have defined setup type and setup group keys and also setup matrix.
Please check the following under SPRO -> CRP -> Capacity leveling and extended evaluation -> Strategy -> Define strategy profile. There is a standard strategy profile to optimize setup times, which is SAPSFCT005 (Fin.sched.for./disp.acc. to setup group). Check the settings under this profile especially the check box "dispatch at best time for set up" to see if it works.
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