Hi Shweta,
I understand why you were unable to find any specific answers for your ask, as SAP has only recently responded to the scenario as stated in your thread i.e. Integrating FICA with SD, when the modules reside in distributed systems.
You will be able to find the details you are looking for in the Release Notes for Enhancement Pack 7 - however, for your reference, I have attached the pertinent extract here as well.
thanks,
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Integration with Sales and Distribution (New)
Use
Previously, you could only use the interface between Sales and Distribution (SD) and Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) in an integrated scenario in one client.
As of SAP enhancement package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0, you can also integrate Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable and Sales and Distribution even if you run both components in distributed systems. To do this, the following prerequisites must be fulfilled:
o The customer must be defined with an identical key in both systems – as a customer in the SD system and as a business partner with a contract account in the FI-CA system.
o Customizing for company codes, controlling areas, operating concerns, and billing types must match in the FI-CA and SD systems.
o If you use multiple SD systems, you must use different number ranges for SD invoicing documents.
In a distributed scenario, create the SD order and SD billing document in the SD system. However, post the accounting document in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable in the FI-CA system.
On the basis of the customer account group, the SD system decides whether to send an SD billing document to the FI-CA system. The decision is made by means of message condition records during billing. The information is transferred by IDoc to Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. Depending on the billing type, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
posts:
o Directly
o After invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
o Sample documents
If you reverse an SD billing document, the SD system also sends an IDoc to the FI-CA system.
If you have integrated Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable with Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), the SD system also sends the corresponding profitability segments to the FI-CA system.
Note the following:
o From the SD billing document, a profitability segment is determined from the available characteristics combination. This profitability segment is unknown in the FI-CA system and must be converted there. To do this, you can also use an alternative characteristics combination with less granularity.
o When you post a document directly in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, the SD system sends the corresponding profitability segment by IDoc to the FI-CA system and converts it to a local profitability segment there.
o When you post by invoice trigger, the FI-CA system does not determines the converted profitability segment until invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.
o When you post using a sample document, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable determines the converted profitability segment when the sample document is posted. In each case, the CO-PA document not posted until it is transferred to Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
In the document flow of the SD billing document, you can see the current status. If the IDoc in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable was not yet processed, the status of the outbound IDoc is displayed. All documents of Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable can be displayed directly from the document flow.
In document header messages, you can check the status of the outbound IDoc. In the event of errors, you can display error messages and trigger the distribution to Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable again.
You can monitor the distribution in the SAP Menu under: Periodic Processing -> Reconciliation of Documents with Source Data -> Reconciliation with SD Billing Documents. The program assigns FI-CA documents to SD billing documents and finds inconsistencies. To find errors in IDoc inbound processing, you can use transaction WE02.
Effects on Customizing
You make system settings for SD integration for distributed systems in Customizing for Sales and Distribution in the system in which Sales and Distribution is running, and in Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable in the system in which Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable is running:
o Sales and Distribution
Define the account groups that are relevant for integration with Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under: Basic Functions -> Integration with Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable -> Specify Posting of Debtor Groups to Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.
o Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
Define and activate system connections under: Integration -> Sales and
Distribution -> Define Logical Systems for Distributed SD Systems.
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