Understanding the Contract Service Withholding Integrity Report

You withhold amounts from the payments to contractors only after the accumulated payments to the contractor exceed a certain amount. The system saves payment and withholding amounts to the Contract Withholding – Payments Done table (F76A430) when you process payments. If the amount in the F76A430 table is incorrect, the calculations to determine whether to withhold amounts from a payment will be incorrect. For example, if you generated payments to contractors prior to installing the software that tracks the payment amounts and the threshold amount that must be reached before the system begins processing withholding, the amount of payments and withholdings for a supplier in the F76A430 table might be different from the amounts in the Accounts Payable Matching Document Detail table (F0414).

You can generate an integrity report to verify that the base and withholding amounts that are stored in the F76A430 table are the same as the base and withholding amounts stored in the F0414 table. You run the Contract Service WH Integrity Report program (R76A431) to print a report that shows the suppliers for whom the base and withholding amounts in the F76A430 and F0414 tables do not match. The report also verifies whether the total amount withheld for each provider set up in the F76A430 matches at least one payment made in a given period. The report lists only the suppliers for which discrepancies exist. If the report does not find discrepancies, no report is printed.

You set a processing option to specify whether to update the F76A430 table with the amounts from the F0414 table. If you choose to update the F76A430 table, the accumulated base and withholding amounts are applied to subsequent payments to the supplier. Generally, you update the F76A430 table if you find discrepancies.