Describing the Scope of the Solution

There are for core capabilities the solution has:

The current scope of profit center reorganization includes the automatic change of profit center assignments in the following master data:

• Materials, Products
• Project Headers
• WBS elements, billing elements, work packages
• Networks and Network Activities (not in scope for public cloud)
• Real Estate Contracts (not in scope for public cloud)
• Fixed Assets (systems without universal parallel accounting, so this by default excludes all public cloud systems)
• Orders such as production, quality management, maintenance orders (and internal orders but not for the public cloud).
• CO-PA Settlement Receiver (depending on the settlement receiver)
• Sales Document Items:
  • Sales Order
  • Inquiry
  • Quotation
  • Scheduling Agreement
  • Contract
• Purchase Document Items with the following item categories:
  • Standard
  • Limit
  • Consignment
  • Subcontracting
  • Material unknown
  • Third-party
  • Text
• Material Group

The system also posts automatic balance transfers for the following balance sheet accounts:

• Material and asset inventory
• Work in progress
• Deferred/accrued revenues
• Open receivables/payables
• Open items on the GR/IR accounts

The system will also update the predictive accounting values for sales orders, updating the profit center recorded as required.

Note that the system transfers values for balance sheet accounts that you cannot post manually. Manual correction postings should be performed as needed for the standard balance sheet accounts.

Another capability the tool offers is a complete simulation of the reorganization. This is not only a simple test run; the system creates transfer postings and stores these in an extension ledger. You can then use reporting to analyze these simulated transfer postings.

This figure illustrates all objects potentially affected by the reorganization of a single profit center (displayed on the top of the tree diagram). All objects inside the blue box are master records for which you input a new profit center (as needed). The system will then update all the objects under the master data automatically with the new profit center value.

Note that the figure displays the scope for on-premise/private cloud systems.

Current scope restrictions:

• Profit center changes are not in scope for assets and their assigned CO objects when Universal Parallel Accounting is active. So, the profit center can't be changed for assets or for any account objects, such as cost centers, which are assigned to an asset in public cloud systems.
• Only valuated real estate contracts are reorganized.
• Revenue Accounting and Reporting (FI-RA) isn't supported.
• Transfer postings for predicted values from purchasing processes aren't supported, so commitments are not transferred.
• Only the accounting profit centers (field: PRCTR) are affected. Other types of profit centers, such as partner profit centers (field: PPRCTR), partner profit centers for elimination of internal business (field: EPRCTR), and origin profit centers (field: UPRCTR) aren't changed.
• No transfer of plan or budget data.
• Revaluation amounts of work in progress with actual costs (WIP ML) are not included in the transfer postings.
• Only the following open items on open-item-managed G/L accounts are transferred:
  • GR/ IR accounts,
  • Freight accounts,
  • foreign currency valuation accounts
• Time-Dependent Derivation of Profit Centers during Organizational Changes - Restrictions Note 3217263 (https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3217263).

In addition, specifically for the public cloud, the following additional restrictions apply:

• Cost Centers, as these are commonly associated with assets, with the current scope it was decided to exclude cost centers altogether from the scope of the reorganization.
• Profit Centers in Real Estate Contracts, Networks, Network Activities, and Activity Elements are not reorganized.
• Only the following order types are supported:
  • 05 - Product Cost Collector (depends on product)
  • 10 - PP Production Order (depends on product)
  • 30 - Maintenance Order
  • 40 - Process Order (depends on product)