Use this function to view the balance of customer invoices pending payment by period. This inquiry can also be useful for reminders and for assessing customer risk.

This function can be accessed:

  • From the BP inquiries
  • From the Customer record (BP situation > Risk or Last operations)

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Prerequisites

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Screen management

The criteria are available in the header and in three sections:

  • The Open items section displays the open items for the criteria that match the header selection
  • The Risk section summarizes the main entries for the selected business partners and assesses a global risk deduced from the commercial risk and the financial risk
  • The Last operations section displays a summary of the last transactions

How inquiries work based on your criteria

The BP situation inquiry displays relevant information on the selected BP and provides the following information (after running the search):

Open items section

Risk section

Last operations section

 Transaction BP

Result for BP "X", with the filter on the company and the site being taken into account.

 Empty

Last operations for the company entered (the tab is empty if the search is launched for all the companies).

 Payment BP

Result for BP "X", with the filter on the company and the site being taken into account.

 Empty

 Empty

 Risk BP

Result for the BPs associated with this risk BP, with the filter on the company and the site being taken into account.

Result for the risk BP "X", with the filter on the company and the site being taken into account.

 Empty

Header

Use the selection criteria in the header to inquire the BP situation:

  • By BP for the movement, by payment BP, by risk BP
  • By site, by company, for all sites, for all companies, for a group of companies

Tab Open Items

Use this section to view the open items pending payment.
The inquiry can vary depending on the setup of BP situation screens.
The table displays the open items according to your criteria:

  • All or a part of the open item information is displayed
  • Amounts are expressed in transaction currency or company currency
  • Totals are managed or not by time interval (as characters or graph). Totals by interval are expressed in company or folder currency

The open item amounts in the various time intervals are displayed in company currency.

The Actions icon on the open item schedule lines gives you access to the following elements, according to the context:

  • The original invoice
  • The journal entry
  • The original document (e.g. for payments)

In the Action panel, an option also gives you direct access to the Payment entry function.

Tab Risk

This section includes three blocks:

Global risk

The main data on the risk BP are displayed if relevant to the BP type:

  • Authorized credit level and credit insurance: loaded with the risk BP, including all control accounts, based on the corresponding information of the customer record
  • Control level of the authorized credit level, with the chosen option displayed (controlled at folder/company level)
  • Accounting balance: calculated at the company level, including all control accounts. This is the total of balances of the accounts that usually influence the accounting balance
  • Risk = Commercial risk + Financial risk
  • Global authorized credit, taking into account the: accounting balance, deliveries in progress, delivered not invoiced, invoicing in progress and as an option, orders in progress, order loans, deliveries on loans and notes payable/receivable.

Commercial risk

This block is for the risk BP, at the company level, including all control accounts.

For customers

  • + Orders in progress (taken into account as an option in the Commercial risk)
  • + Order loans (taken into account as an option in the Commercial risk)
  • + Deliveries in progress
  • + Delivered not invoiced
  • + Delivered on loan
  • + Invoiced not posted
  • = Commercial risk

For suppliers

  • + Orders in progress
  • + Received not invoiced
  • + Invoiced not posted
  • = Commercial risk

Financial risk

This block is for the paying (pay-by) BP, at the company/site level, limited to the control account/group of control accounts according to the selection.

For customers

  • - Unmatched credit memos
  • + Open items approved for payment
  • + Open items not approved for payment
  • + Provisional payments
  • + Notes P/R 1..3  (taken into account as an option in the financial risk)
  • = Financial risk

For suppliers

  • - Unmatched credit memos
  • + Invoices
  • + Provisional payments
  • + Notes P/R 1..3  (taken into account as an option in the financial risk)
  • = Financial risk

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Tab Last operation

This section displays a summary of the transactions carried out for a BP:

  • Last operations : the last movements carried out are available using the Actions icon
  • Statistics
  • Actions (only for customers)
  • Order history (only for customers)