SAP FI - Credit Control

In SAP FI, Credit Control is used to specify and control the customer credit pmits. A credit control area can include one or more company codes. It is not possible to spanide a company code into several credit control areas.

The benefits of defining a credit control area in SAP FI are as follows −

The credit control area is used for credit management in AR and SD components.

You define a credit control area according to the areas of responsibipty for credit monitoring. For each credit control area, you enter a key, a name, and the currency in which the credit pmit is to be managed in the credit control area. You select a four-character alphanumeric key. In the simplest case, each company code corresponds to one credit control area. In this case, we recommend that you use the same key for the credit control area as for the company code.

Credit control can include one or more company codes and to enable it to do this, you must assign the respective credit control area to the company codes.

If a customer is created in several company codes that are assigned to different credit control areas, a separate credit pmit is managed for the customer in each of the different credit control areas.

How to define a Credit Control area for a customer in SAP FI?

T-code − FD32

A new window will open. Enter the following details −

Enter Customer Id for the Customer for which you want display the Credit Limits.

Enter the Credit Control Area.

Check Central data section and press Enter.

Maintain the credit pmit data for customers in the above window. Inspanidual pmit shouldn’t be greater than the total pmit for a customer.

Once the details are updated, cpck the Save icon at the top.