By Vendu

Rebates Process in SAP is divided into three components:

1) Configuring Rebates
2) Setting Up Rebates
3) Managing rebate agreements and payments

Check the following for pre-requisites:

1. The payer partner needs to have the rebate field checked in the customer master on the sales area-billing doc tab.
2. The Billing type must be marked as relevant for rebates.
3. The Sales Organisation must be marked as relevant for rebates.

Condition Technique :

Rebates, use the condition technique, but distinguish themselves from pricing in applying to transactions over time, versus on a transaction basis. Rebates have their own field catalog and their own condition table naming convention. So you could have two condition table "001" one for pricing and one for rebates, which could have different key fields. You need to use the technical names A001 For pricing and KOTe001 for rebates when you use the query type using transaction SE16 .

Use create access sequence (AS). Enter 1 in field category for rebate specific. AS after going thru the right path of maintaining access sequence for rebates.

The big difference between the rebate and the pricing access sequence is that there is no exclusion flag available for rebate related AS. This means multiple tables for an access sequence can be applied at the same time.

Rebate related condition types are identified by condition class -C.

After defining and creating condition types for rebated include them in the pricing procedure. The requirement should be 24 here which implies that the accruals are calculated on the basis of invoice/bill.

The other fields- alctyp and altcbv does not allow you to manipulate how a rebate is calculated. Also, remove the requirement 24, if you want to see rebates at order time.

Now payment of rebates:

Payments can be manual or in full settlement. When you do manual payments, it defines how much can be paid out during a partial settlement. You use partial settlement only when rebate agreement is defined for a full year but the payouts are supposed to happen on a monthly, quarterly or another specified period.

These accruals are based on sales volume and when they are posted billing is created in the following manner. Provision for accruals is debited and Sales revenue is credited. When rebate credit memo is created Customer account/ is debited and Accrual provision account is credited.

Also, please note that when rebates are created without dependent on a material but on customer/material you need to refer to a material for settlement. 

Important rebate tables:

KONA - Rebate Agreement 
VBAK - Sales Document - Header data 
VBRK - Billing Document - Header data 
BSEG - Accounting Document Segment 
PAYR - Payment Medium File 

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