How to Define Tolerance group for customers / vendors in SAP
Tolerance group enables the users to process transaction with the payment difference of gain or loss that defined as per tolerance group for customers and vendors in SAP.
In this SAP tutorials, you will learn how to define tolerance group for customers and vendors in SAP systems. In our previous training we have learned how to assign number ranges to customer account groups in SAP.
Configuration steps
- Transaction code: – OBA3
- Menu Path: – SPRO > SAP Reference IMG > SAP Customizing Implementation guide –> Financial Accounting (New) —> Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable —-> Business Transactions —–> Outgoing Payments ——> Manual Outgoing Payments ——-> Define Tolerances for customers and vendors.
Step 1) Enter T- code “OBA3” in the SAP commend field and enter.
Step 2) On change view Customers/Vendors tolerances overview screen, click on “New Entries” button to define new tolerance groups for vendors and customers as per the requirements.
Step 3) On new entries customer and vendor tolerances screen, update the following details.
- Company Code: – Update the company code for which you would like to define tolerance groups.
- Tolerance group: – It is not required to update the tolerance group key, just update the description text of tolerance group.
- Permitted payment difference: – Update the payment differences of gain & loss with amount and percentage i.e 500 percentage and 1% adjustment by 100.
This means the user can process the business transaction with the payment difference of 500 with gain or loss of 1 percentage. The SAP system doesn’t allow to process the transaction above the payment differences amount.
After maintaining all the required details of customer and vendor tolerances, click on save button and save the implemented tolerance group details.
Successfully we have defined tolerance group for customers and vendors in SAP.