Credit management in SAP allows configuration of simple and automatic credit checks. Simple credit checks verify that a customer's total open order, delivery, and billing document values do not exceed their credit limit, and can be configured to issue warnings, errors, or block deliveries. Automatic credit checks divide customers into risk categories and documents into credit groups, and assign outcome procedures to combinations of these to determine the credit check at order, delivery, or goods issue. Credit control areas represent the highest organizational level for credit management and are defined in FI, then company codes can be assigned to them.