SAP payment program can make payment to a vendor other than the one to which the invoice was posted. Payment is made to an 'alternative payee', which must be specified in the vendor master record.
An alternative payee can be defined in the ‘general data area’ and in the ‘company code data area’. The alternative payee specified in the general data area is used by every company code. If an alternative payee is defined in both areas, the specification in the company code area has priority.
This field can be misued for fraud and should be controlled. As a securtity control, there should be a regular review of vendor masters with 'alternate payee' and appropriateness of the same. Ideally, if an organization does not allow this practice, the ‘alternate payee' field in the vendor master records should be set to ‘suppressed’.
An alternative payee can be defined in the ‘general data area’ and in the ‘company code data area’. The alternative payee specified in the general data area is used by every company code. If an alternative payee is defined in both areas, the specification in the company code area has priority.
This field can be misued for fraud and should be controlled. As a securtity control, there should be a regular review of vendor masters with 'alternate payee' and appropriateness of the same. Ideally, if an organization does not allow this practice, the ‘alternate payee' field in the vendor master records should be set to ‘suppressed’.
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