Customer Claims (tscmm1100m100)

Use this session to register, review and process claims received from customers. This session is displayed as a part of the Customer Claim (tscmm1600m100) session and cannot be accessed from the main menu.

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Claim

The unique code for customer claim.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Status

The current status of the claim. LN populates the claim status and you cannot set the status manually. By default, the claim status is set to Free.

Next Step

The next step that must be executed to process the customer claim.

Sold-to Business Partner

The unique code of the sold-to business partner from which the claim is received.

Description

The name of the sold-to business partner from which the claim is received.

Sold-to Contact

The unique code of the contact details of the sold-to business partner.

Note

The Sold-to Contact is defaulted with the contact of the sold-to business partner defined in Contacts by Business Partner Role (tccom4545m000) session.

Full Name

The description or name of the code.

Service Office

The service department authorized to handle the claim.

Note
Description

The description or name of the code.

Rate Determiner

The rate determiner. LN converts amounts from the transaction currency to the home currency using the currency rate that is valid according to the rate determiner that applies to the transaction. By default, LN considers Document Date as the rate determiner.

Allowed values

Rate determiner

Note

LN defaults the Rate Determiner value of the Sold-to Business Partner.

Rate/Rate Factor

The currency exchange rate used in the currency conversion process. (The factor/rate by which an amount in a different currency is multiplied to calculate the amount in the currency base).

Rate / Rate Factor
Rate / Rate Factor

The rate for a currency base-unit.

Business Partner

The business partner from whom you receive payments. This usually represents a customer's accounts payable department. The definition includes the default currency and exchange rate, the customer's bank relation, the type of reminders you send to the business partner, and the frequency of sending reminders.

Note

This field displays the pay-by business partner who receives the approved/claimed amount if the Claim Invoice Procedure is of type Credit Note Based. This field displays the pay-to business partner if the Claim Invoice Procedure is Invoice Based.

Address

The code for the address of the pay by business partner.

Contact Person

The code for the contact linked to the business partner role.

Note
  • This field is not enabled if the claim Status is Rejected, Canceled or Closed.
  • When the Claim Invoice Procedure is set to Credit Note Based, LN defaults the contact of the service department of the Pay-by business partner. If the Claim Invoice Procedure is set to Invoice Based, LN defaults the contact linked to the Pay-by business partner.
Contact Person

The description or name of the code.

Claimed Amount

The total amount claimed from the claim. This value is calculated based on the claim lines linked to this claim.

Creation Date

The date and time the claim is created. By default, LN considers the system date and time when the claim is created.

Created By

The login code of the user who created the claim. LN considers the login code of the current user.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Latest Finish Time

The latest finish time scheduled (for internal purpose) or agreed (with clients) for claim handling.

Planned Delivery Time

The planned date and time when the claim must be delivered. The planned delivery date and time is used for the material transactions in case the Claim Method field is set to Reimburse Materials. By default, LN considers the current date and time as the planned delivery date and time.

Internal Claim Text

The text for internal information about the claims. This information must not be printed on external documents.

Problem

The code that identifies the problem. The problem must be an actual problem.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Currency

The currency of the amount.

Solution

The code of the solution.

Note

This field is displayed only if the Use Diagnostics check box is selected in the General Service Parameters (tsmdm0100m000) session.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Approved Amount

The total approved amount calculated from the claim. This value is calculated based on the claim lines linked to this claim.

Approved By

The code of the user who approves the claim. By default, LN considers the current user login code and you cannot change this value.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Approval Date

The date on which the estimated claim amount is approved.

Approved By

The code of the user who approves the estimated claim amount.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Approval Date

The date and time when the claim is approved. LN considers current date and time. However, you cannot change this data.

Approval Percentage

The percentage applied to all approved claimed amounts on the claim lines. LN defaults the value as 100 percent.

Rejected By

The code of the user who rejects the claim. By default, LN populates the current user login code and you cannot change this value.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Rejection Date

The date and time when the claim is rejected. LN populates current date and time and you cannot change this data.

Rejection Reason

The code of the rejection reason.

Note
  • You must specify the value in this field when the claim Status is set to Rejected.
  • The Reason Type must be set to Claim Rejection in Reasons (tcmcs0105m000) session.
Text

If this check box is selected, the details of the reason for rejecting the entire claim is attached to the claim.

Canceled By

The code of the user who cancels the claim. By default, LN populates the current user login code and you cannot change this data.

Cancel Date

The date and time when the claim is canceled. LN populates current date and time and you cannot change this data.

Cancel Reason

The code of the cancellation reason. LN defaults the reason code defined in the Reasons (tcmcs0105m000) session.

Note
  • You must enter the value in this field when the claim Status is set to Canceled.
  • The Reason Type must be set to Cancel Reason in the Reasons (tcmcs0105m000) session.
Text

If this check box is selected, the details of the reason for cancelling the entire claim is attached to the claim.

Rejected Amount

The total amount rejected from the Claimed Amount. This value is calculated based on the claim lines linked to this claim.

Address

The address of the sold-to business partner.

Rate Date

The date and time on which the currency rate is finalized for claims.

Claimed Amount

The total estimated amount that is claimed.

Approved Amount

The total estimated amount that is approved.

Rejected Amount

The total estimated amount that is rejected.

Claim Origin

The origin of the claim. By default, this field is set this to Manually.

Allowed values

Customer Claim Origin

Service Type

The code of the service type used to define a set of characteristics for claims which can be linked to a customer claim. The service type also defines steps to be executed in the claim procedure. The service type has the default procedural settings for the Claim Invoice Procedure.

Note
  • This field is not enabled if the claim lines are present.
  • Only service types with a defined Claim Invoice Procedure can be used.
Description

The description or name of the code.

Claim Invoice Procedure

The procedure that determines if the claim flow is Credit Note Based or Invoice Based.

Note

LN defaults this value from the Service Types (tsmdm0130m000) session.

Address

The address of the sold-to business partner.

Description

The description or name of the code.

External Claim Text

Information about the claim that is printed on external document.

Sales Reference System

The order system in LN to which the claim refers to.

Allowed values

Original Order System

Note
  • By default, this field is set to Not Applicable.
  • The Sales Reference System, Sales Document Type and Sales Document Number fields are only applicable when the Claim Invoice Procedure is Invoice Based.
Sales Document Type

The type of document related to the selected original order system to which the claim refers to. By default, this field is set to Not Applicable. A claim can be based on the original document. The Sales Document Type can be an order, or an invoice. The purpose of the “original document” is to check if the claim is valid, to copy the original sold items, quantities and sales prices of the order or invoice to the customer claim. The original document concept eases the entry of the claim data, especially when the customer claim header was entered manually.

Note

When no history is registered, Order History option is not available for the Sales Document Type field.

Sales Document Number

The code of the financial company of the original invoice.

Note
  • This field is enabled only when the Sales Document Type is Invoice.
  • The Company Type field must be set to Financial or Both in Companies (tcemm1170m000) session.
Document

The transaction type code of the original invoice. This field is mandatory when the original document number is specified.

Note

This field is enabled only when Sales Document Type is set to Invoice and when the original invoice company is specified.

Document

The document number of the Sales Document Type. The number can be an order number or an invoice number. This field is enabled and mandatory when the Sales Document Type field is set to a value other than Not Applicable.

Customer Order Number

The number assigned to the claim by the Sold-to Business Partner. The Customer Order Number cannot be changed anymore when the claim is Rejected, Canceled or Closed.

First Invoice Reference

The first reference information about the business partner that you want to print on the sales invoice.

Note
  • You can only maintain this field if the Sold-to Business Partner field is specified and if the Claim Invoice Procedure field is set to Credit Note Based.
  • This field is not enabled
    • If a claim line with Claim Invoice Procedure set to Credit Note Based has CISLI data exist that cannot be updated.
    • If a claim line with Claim Method field set to Reimburse Costs with the status Approved, and the Total Invoice field is unchecked.
    • If Total Invoice field is checked, and the claim header Status is Approved or more.
Second Invoice Reference

The second reference information about the business partner that you want to print on the sales invoice.

Note
  • You can only maintain this field if the Sold-to Business Partner field is specified and if the Claim Invoice Procedure field is set to Credit Note Based.
  • This field is not enabled
    • If a claim line with Claim Invoice Procedure field is set to Credit Note Based has CISLI data exist that cannot be updated.
    • If a claim line with Claim Method field set to Reimburse Costs with the status Approved, and the Total Invoice field is unchecked.
    • If Total Invoice field is checked, and the claim header Status is Approved or more.
In Use-by Business Partner

The end customer ( business partner) using the installation on which the claim is registered.

Note
  • This field is not enabled if the claim Status is Rejected, Canceled or Closed.
  • The in value in this field is defaulted from the Serialized Items (tscfg2100m000) session or when transferring a call to a customer claim, the in-use by data is taken from the call.
Installation Group

The code that identifies the installation group for which the claim is raised.

Note

The installation group must be the same as the installation group of the serialized item, in case a serialized item is defined.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Item

The item for which the claim is raised.

Note

The item must be defined in Items - Service (tsmdm2100m000) session.

Serial Number

The serial number of the item for which the claim is raised. The item must be defined, service item data must present and item must be configuration controlled as serialized.

Note

The sold-to business partner of the serialized item must be the same as the Sold-to Business Partner of the claim.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Failure Date

The date and time when the malfunctioning of the part is reported. This date and time is used to identify the related active warranty or a service contract and price determination.

Note

By default, LN displays the claim Creation Date as Failure Date.

Coverage Time

The time used to determine the applicable service contract and warranty for the claim.

Coverage Type

The coverage type that is used to determine the warranty or contract coverage allocation.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Warranty

The warranty linked to the claim.

Related topics

Description

The description or name of the code.

Service Contract

The service contract linked to the claim.

Related topics

Description

The description or name of the code.

Address

The in use-by business partner's address.

Note
  • This field is enabled only if the claim Status is Rejected, Canceled or Closed.
  • The in value in this field is defaulted from the Serialized Items (tscfg2100m000) session.
Contact Person

The contact linked to the In Use-by Business Partner role.

Note
  • This field is not enabled if the claim Status is Rejected, Canceled or Closed.
  • The in value in this field is defaulted from the Serialized Items (tscfg2100m000) session.
In Use-by Operator Contact

The contact linked to the In Use-by Operator Contact using the installation.

Note
  • This field is not enabled if the claim Status is Rejected, Canceled or Closed.
  • The in value in this field is defaulted from the Serialized Items (tscfg2100m000) session.
Ship-to Business Partner

The code of the ship-to business partner who ships the broken parts and receives replacement parts.

Note
  • The ship-to business partner is defaulted from the sold-to business partner defined in Business Partners (tccom4500m000) session.
Ship-to Address

The code of the ship-to address.

Note

Ship-to address is mandatory when the ship-to business partner is specified.

Ship-to Contact

The contact linked to the ship-to business partner.

Note
  • The ship-to business partner is defaulted from the sold-to business partner defined in Business Partners (tccom4500m000) session.
  • This field is not enabled if the claim Status is Rejected, Canceled or Closed.
Delivery Terms

The delivery terms code.

Note
  • You can enter a value in this field only if the sold-to business partner field is specified.
  • The Delivery Terms are defaulted with the terms of delivery from the Sold-to Business Partner role.
Description

The description or name of the code.

Point of Title Passage

The point of title passage code.

Note
  • You can only maintain this field if the sold-to business partner field is filled.
Description

The description or name of the code.

Business Partner

The code of the invoice-to business partner.

Note

This field displays the invoice-to business partner who receives the approved/claimed amount if the Claim Invoice Procedure is of type Credit Note Based. This field displays the invoice-from business partner if the Claim Invoice Procedure is Invoice Based.

Address

The code of the address of the invoice business partner.

Note

The address is defaulted with the service department defined for Invoice business partner.

Contact Person

The contact linked to the invoice-to business partner.

Note
  • This field is not enabled if the claim Status is Rejected, Canceled or Closed.
  • When the Claim Invoice Procedure is set to Credit Note Based, LN defaults the contact of the service department of the Invoice-to business partner. If the Claim Invoice Procedure is set to Invoice Based, LN defaults the contact linked to the Invoice-from business partner.
Contact Person

The description or name of the code.

Sales Type

The code of the sales type.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Line of Business

The group of customers, suppliers, or employees that work in the same business sector. Lines of business can be used as selection criteria when generating reports or inquiries of statistical and historical data.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Payment Terms

The agreement for invoice payment. The payment terms include:

  • The period within which invoices must be paid.
  • The discount granted if an invoice is paid within a given period.

The payment terms allow you to calculate:

  • The date on which the payment is due.
  • The date on which the discount periods expire.
  • The discount amount.
Description

The description or name of the code.

Late Payment Surcharge

The percentage that is charged over the goods amount or over services rendered that the recipient of the invoice must pay, if the bill is not paid within a specified period.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Payment Method

The code of the payment method. Payment Method indicates how the credit note is paid in Cash Management.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Invoice Text

The header information printed on the sales credit note.

Total Invoice

If this check box is selected, LN releases all the claim lines to central Invoicing when the claim Status is set to Approved. If this check box is cleared, the claim lines are released to central invoicing individually, when the claim Line Status is Approved.

VAT Based On

If this check box is selected, VAT calculation is based on goods or services.

Allowed values

VAT Based on

Tax Classification
Description

The description or name of the code.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Exchange Rate Type

The rate type used to convert the invoice currency to the home currencies of the invoice company. You can assign different currency exchange rates to different invoice-to business partner and/or to different types of transactions (purchase, sales, and so on).

Description

The description or name of the code.

 

Execute Next Step

Executes the process specified in the Next Step field.

Reject

Sets the status of the claim to Rejected

Submit

Submits the claim for approval.

Approve Estimates

Approves the estimated claim amount.

Approve

Approves the actual claim amount and set the status of the claim to Approved.

Generate Supplier Claim

Generates the supplier claim for the selected customer claim.

Cancel

Sets the status of the claim to Canceled

Close

Sets the status of the claim to Closed