SAP Credit Management provides integrated credit risk management capabilities including credit scoring, credit checking, credit limit management, and workflow. It calculates customer credit scores and credit limits using configurable rules and formulas. It integrates with external credit bureaus and allows real-time credit checks. The system supports credit limit requests, approvals, and tracking credit events through a workflow. Credit data can be captured at the business partner level and includes financial information, credit segments, relationships and document attachments.

1. SAP Credit Management

2. Agenda
• SAP Credit Management
– Business Partner
– Credit Scoring
– Credit Integration
– Workflow
– Credit Checking

3. SAP Credit Management

4. Description
SAP
New Receivables
Credit
Management
Old SD Credit
Management
Credit Checking
Integration platform to third-party credit bureaus via
SAP PI
Credit rules engine for automatic customer risk scoring
and credit limit calculations
Workflow for any credit events
Multiple credit limit categories to capture owned risk,
personal/bank guarantee, insurance etc
Credit limit approval and automatic updates to master
FSCM Credit Management vs. SD Credit Management

5. Business Partner

6. Business Partner – Document attachment
Document attachment option in
customer

8. Business Partner – General Data

9. Business Partner – General Data
Choose a Rule for
Calculating aScore
Risk Class can be
automatically or
manually set
Select what type
of Credit Check to
perform for this
customer

10. Business Partner – Credit Segment Data
Credit Limit Data

11. Business Partner – Credit
Segment Data
Credit Segment same
as ‘Credit Control
Area’ or ‘Company
Code’
Select Rule for
Calculating Credit
Limit Automatically
Credit Limit Data

12. A Customer can be
linked to other
entities
Business Partner – Relationships

13. A Customer can be
linked to other
entities
Business Partner –
Relationships

14. Business Partner – Financial Information

15. Credit Scoring

16. Rules for Calculating Credit
Score and Limits

17. Formulas
Define Formulas
for various
scenarios
Click on the
Formula Editor to
maintain the
calculation logic

18. Formula
Editor
Series of conditional
steps. Kind of a ‘IF’,
‘THEN’, ‘ELSE’ logic
Choose from a list
of fields, functions
and operators to
define a step

19. Credit Limit
Calculation
Same concept as
Credit Score
Formula
maintenance

20. Risk Class
Determination
Map calculated
scores to Risk
Classes based on
ranges

21. Credit Integration

22. External Credit Rating Data Integration
Automatically
Populate Credit
Bureau Data

23. • Use SAP XI/PI or WS-RM as the
Integration Platform
• Integrate Sales and Financial
from SAP and non-SAP systems
• Integrate rating information
from External Agencies
• Real-time Credit Checks
Standard
Interfaces for
Credit Bureau

24. Credit Workflow

25. Credit Workflow Triggers
Events to monitor
to perform
automated
actions or route
to Credit Analysts

26. Credit Check

27. Check Rule
Select what type
of Credit Check to
perform for this
customer

28. Check Rule
Use system
standard Check
Rule or create
your own

29. Check Rule
Check Rule is a
combination of
individual checks
or steps
Maintain Values
to Check Against

30. Credit Checking
• SAP FSCM Credit Checking can be enabled to
integrate with both SAP and non-SAP instances
• In Old Credit Management module you could have
only done Credit check for one local system
• Now you can have one global FSCM Credit Instance
and have multiple SAP and non-SAP real-time
perform credit checks

31. Advanced Features

32. Credit Score Risk Class
Scoring
Engine
Scoring
Model
Credit Limit
Credit
Check
Check
Rules
Scoring
Engine
Scoring
Model
Credit Decision
3rd Party
Assessment
Financial
Information
Characteristics
Map
Scoring Model

33. Scoring Model Overview
• Credit Score and Credit Limit are computed using
HR CDA’s Scoring Engine
• Scoring Engine allows definition of complex
mathematical formulae using simple structures
like Factor Tables and Assignment Tables
• A Factor Table is a tool to capture weighted
summation:
– Z = aX + bY
• An Assignment Table is a tool to capture
conditional assignment:
– IF ‘Customer Since’ > 10 years THEN ‘5’

34. Risk Score – An Example
Risk Score = Financial Score + Payment Index + Business Score + Rating Agency
Assessment

35. Business Score

36. Financial Score

37. Credit Limit – An Example
Credit Limit = 0% of Tangible Net Worth If Risk Score is 0
15% of Tangible Net Worth If Risk Score is between 0 and 20
35% of Tangible Net Worth If Risk Score is between 20 and 40
40% of Tangible Net Worth If Risk Score is between 40 and 60
50% of Tangible Net Worth If Risk Score is between 60 and 80
55% of Tangible Net Worth If Risk Score is between 80 and 100

38. Credit Limit Approval

39. Credit Dashboard: Workflow: Credit Review
Request for an
increase in limit

40. Credit Dashboard: Workflow: Credit Review
Automatic notes are
added to support
the credit limit
request decision.

41. Credit Dashboard: Workflow: Credit Review

42. Workflow - Configuration
Configurable
workflow to enable
quick business
requirement

43. Credit Dashboard: Workflow: Credit Review
Credit Limit Request
forwarded for
Approval

44. Credit Limit Approval - Analyst
Credit Limit Request
Approved – Ability
to capture notes at
an approval level

45. Credit Limit Tab – show approved amount.
Credit Limit is updated in the system
directly after the DOA is put in effect.