Central Accounting

The main goal of this scenario is that the group offers the account handling to their small susidiaries or partners as a service.

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Business Benefits

Real-time collaboration with headquarter

Shared business process responsibilities

Subsidiary

Global Unit

Logistic transaction, e.g. customer order, purchase order

Goods issue, goods receipt, invoice issued, invoice receipt

Update logistics system

Process document

Account handling: Clearing, dunning, correspondence

Payment, Cash management

Business Benefits

Improved level of control regarding financial aspects across subsidiaries

Greater transparency of financial and customer-related data


Central Accounting SAP Business One at the subsidiaries / partner sides is responsible for the logistics processes like sales, purchasing and stock managment. Posting goods issues, goods receipts, outgoing and incoming invoices in SAP Business One leads to posting to the according account in SAP Business One. This SAP Business One account is used for technical reasons. The posting of the SAP Business One account is transferred in "real time" to the corresponding SAP R/3 account. In SAP R/3 further accounting postings and activities like payments, dunning, correspondence, or cash management are done.