Capacity balancing - Dunning by collection strategy

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

We have a requirement to implement capacity balancing. I have some basic idea around this config. But does anyone have detailed documentation around this capacity balancing in SAP FICA. (transaction FPCMCAP).

Also I want to know how to handle dunning notices that will need to be released manually or by scheduling FPM3_RELEASE.

Thanks,

Suhas.

[william_eastman]

Suhas:

No detailed documentation exists.  Instead, ask your specific questions about the function.

regards,

bill.

[Former Member]

Hi William,

Can you tell me purpose of following 2 fields

a. Upper limit

b. Release from

in transaction FPCMCAP.

[william_eastman]

Did you check F1 for the fields?

Upper Limit without Release Procedure

Restricts the number of dunning notices with this dunning activity that can be processed in a dunning run.

From the upper limit, the system executes the alternative collection step for all dunning notices. This alternative step must not contain any dunning activities with restricted capacity.

If the system is unable to determine any alternative collection step, the dunning notices concerned are reversed.

Dependencies

If you have maintained an upper limit, dunning notices with a higher valuation number will be processed by the dunning activity first.

Release from Upper Limit

Restricts the number of dunning notices with this dunning activity that can be processed in a dunning run without an additional release procedure.

Once the upper limit has been reached, the Release indicator is set in the dunning header of all dunning notices. The dunning activity run for these dunning notices cannot be executed until after the release.

If a release is to be required for all dunning notices with this dunning activity, the upper limit must be set to '1'.

[Former Member]

Thank you very much for your answers. Can you please further clarify
following things?

a. What is the role of alternative collection step. Is it like after dunning
run which ever accounts that hit collection step which has upper limit will go
to this alternative step? And what happens next?

b. I did not get what we mean by "dunning notices with a higher valuation
number will be processed by the dunning activity first."

c. Release from Upper limit: Suppose I set upper limit to 100. Does this
mean that when 100 accounts hit step X, system will start adding release
indicator for remaining dunning notices and dunning activity will not take
place for these accounts?

So when exactly dunning activity will take place for these pending once? In
next day’s batch? What happens if backlog keeps piling up? So how do we handle scenario
where we will have pending dunning notices from previous run’s (may be for
multiple days) and we are expecting new dunning notices from today’s run.

May be I am mixing up the things but just want to clear things.