Automatic Dunning — Periodic Processing - Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable * Automatic Dunning is the procedure available in SAP S/4HANA Finance to make persistent demand to the Customers to make payment for their Boods or services after the net due date by sending dunning notices as a reminder * Dunning notices can also be sent to the Vendors if they are overdue to send you refund amount * This is one of the period-end or month-end or year-end Accounts receivable/Accounts payable activities for the Business users to execute * The first dunning notice is normally a friendly reminder * The second dunning notice is little strong in text * The third dunning notice is much stronger in text * The fourth dunning notice is to inform the Customer to take legal action against him for non-paymentAutomatic Dunning — Configuration * Menu path: Display IMG -> Financial Accounting -> Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable -> Business Transactions -> Dunning -> Basic Settings for Dunning: * Define Dunning Areas — T-code: OB61 + Define Dunning Keys - T-code: OB17 * Define Dunning Block Reasons — T-code: OB18Automatic Dunning — Configuration for Dunning Procedure * Define the control of the dunning program, for example, which dunning procedure is to be used for dunning, or which dunning charges are to be levied * Define Dunning Procedures — T-code: FBMP. * Menu path: Display IMG -> Financial Accounting -> Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable -> Business Transactions -> Dunning -> Dunning Procedure -> Define Dunning Procedure * Besides dunning standard transactions, we can also dun special G/L transactions by choosing Special G/L indicator and select the required special G/L transactionsAutomatic Dunning Execution — Periodic Processing - Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable * Change Customer Master with Dunning details — T-code: BP * In addition to maintain the dunning data at master data level, you can also maintain the dunning data at financial accounting document such as Details tab in Customer invoice. For example, you can prevent certain items from exceeding a certain dunning level by assigning dunning keys to them * Display Customer Line Items for Overdue documents — TC: FBL5N * Execute Dunning — T-code: F150 * Menu path: SAP Easy Access -> Accounting -> Accounts Receivable -> Periodic Processing -> Dunning OR * Menu path: SAP Easy Access -> Accounting -> Accounts Payable -> Periodic Processing -> DunningAutomatic Dunning Execution — Periodic Processing - Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable * There are 4 main steps to execute the dunning run: + Maintain the parameters * Edit the Dunning proposal * Schedule the dunning run + Start the dunning print-outAutomatic Dunning Execution — Periodic Processing - Edit a Dunning Proposal * You have the following options if you want to edit a dunning proposal: * Lower the dunning level of an item * Block an account * Block a line item * Remember, if you are not going to print the dunning proposal, you have to delete it otherwise it blocks the items you selected for processing in other dunning runs