Last Updated on August 3, 2022 by admin

Credit control area in SAP HANA is an important organization unit that determines to manage and check credit limit for customers. With credit control area, you can control credit limits for the customers at the time of customers sales order creation, delivery posting and billing document generation.

Credit Control Area in SAP Hana –  Scenarios

  1. One credit control area can be assigned to one or more company codes in SAP HANA
  2. Credit control area enables to control the credit of customers centrally for activated company codes
  3. It is an mandatory organizational element in SAP HANA FI enterprise structure
  4. Within Credit control area, the credit limits for customers must be specified in same currency.

How to Define Credit Control Area in SAP S/4Hana

You can create credit control area in SAP S/4 HANA by using the following configuration steps

  • Menu Path: Enterprise Structure -> Definition -> Financial Accounting -> Enterprise Structure -> Define Credit Control Area
  • Transaction Code: OB45

Step 1: From SAP Easy Access S/4Hana screen, enter the transaction code “OB45” and enter to continue.

SAP Hana Transaction Code OB45

Step 2: On change view Credit Control Area overview screen, displays list of credit control areas for customers that are defined in SAP S4Hana system. You can define new credit control area in SAP S/4Hana system by choosing the option “New Entries”.

Credit control area new entries in SAP Hana screen

Step 3: On new entries of credit control area creation screen, update the following details.

  • Credit Control Area: Enter the 4 characters alphanumerical key that identifies as credit control area in SAP S/4Hana system
  • Description: By default the description of credit control area field will be in block, after saving the credit control area you are allowed to enter the description of credit control area.
  • Currency: Enter the currency key in which currency that credit control area to be managed

Data for updating SD

  • Update: Credit update for open orders/ delivery / billing documents value. You can choose the update key from the dropdown list. Here we updated as 000018 – open delivery value for sales order, open billing document value
  • FY Variant – Update the fiscal year variant

Default data for automatically creating new customers

  • Risk Category: Update the risk category
  • Credit Limit: Update the credit limit that can be provided for customers
  • Rep. Group:

Organizational Data

  • All company codes: check the field if the credit control area is applicable for all company codes, or leave it as blank.

Define Credit Control Area in SAP HANA

After update all the details for credit control area, click on save option to save the data.

Now you requested for customizing request number, create or choose the request and save the details of credit control area in SAP S/4Hana system.

Step 4: Go back to credit control area overview screen, enter the description of credit control area and save the updated data.

credit control area description in SAP S4Hana

Successfully we have created new credit control area in SAP Hana system.