Revamping of Cost centers

[former_member216878]

Dear Guru`s,

In existing situation few cost centers are created and used but not in proper manner. Now I want to create a new Standard hierarchy for which I will create new cost center groups and cost centers. I will club all similar nature of cost centers in groups and finally create a Standard hierarchy.

Issue is existing cost centers which are wrongly created are used at the time of posting and has cost in it. Now,ideally what should be done in this case.

Please suggest

Regards

Nitisha

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Nitisha,

Once you have created new CCs, then you can manualy transfer the cost by transaction KB11N by entering Sender and Receiver CC details alongwith Cost element and the amount you want to trasnfer.

A new CO document will be created which will transfer the amount by nullifying the entry in Sender's CC and cost gets captured in receiver's CC.

Hope it could help you.

Regards,

Siddharth

[former_member216878]

Dear All,

Thanks for the prompt reply...I`l try the KB11N transfer method and will revert according...

Once again thank you..

Regards

Nitisha

[Former Member]

Hello Nitisha,

Please update the status of this issue.

Regards,

Sid

[former_member188063]

Hi Nitisha,

Since you already know that deletion is not possible with the costs in it. The best option is to delimit the old cost centers after settling the costs in it to the new cost center.

The system will  not allow user to select old cost centers.

And create a Standard Hierarchy with the new Cost Centers.

Try it all in the testing system before you try in Prod.

Sudhakar*

[former_member1362767]

Hi Nitisha,

Deleting is not at all suggestable as cost centres will be carrying data once it is posted

Create a new hierarchy and then new cost centre, Use transaction KB11N transfer all the old cost centre data to new cost centre, this should help you out

Thanks

Vivekananda

[pardhreddyc]

Dear,

After creating all the new cost centers and cost centers hierarchy,You need to link to all the modules like PM, PP etc...As they are linking to the technical objects and Work centers to for calculating activity type cost.

And also check the "Actual assessment cycle".

I suggest to delimit the old cost centers with validity date.So that system will not allow users to select old cost centers.

Deleting may lead you to some inconsistencies in reporting structures of other modules where they already used these cost centers.

To change the validity period of old cost centers: Use transaction KS02  and once cost center change screen is displayed.

Goto-->Edit--> Analysis period

then system will show "Analysis time frame:select" screen.In that screen click on button "Other Period" on right side corner of the screen and then system will pop-up a small screen to enter the validity periods.

Regards,

Pardhu

[former_member216878]

Hi Pradha ,

Thanks for your reply!!!!

Assessment cycles are not used in current scenario till now. I agree I need to link the new production cost centers to work centers and will do that.

If I delimit the old cost centers then system will definitely not allow user to select old cost..but what will happen to cost which is still exist in old cost centers????

Regards

Nitisha

[pardhreddyc]

Dear,

If you have unsettled cost in existing cost centers, kindly settle them.

After revamping system will give an error message if user select the old cost center.But while selecting the cost center system will show the validity periods of cost centers.User need to select appropriate one.

You have option of not to show the old cost centers based on Validity periods in drop down list.

Regards,

pardhu

[former_member216878]

Hi Pradha ,

In existing scenario no distribution or assessment cycles are used so I have to create distribution cycles to allocate cost from old cost centers to new cost centers or is there any other way out??

Regards

Nitisha

[pardhreddyc]

Dear,

Hope this way is the more convenient way to proceed and helpful for validation also.

Regards,

Pardhu

[rajneesh_saxena]

Hi Nitisha

When you do period end activities, usually all cost centers balances becomes ZERO. Is that you case or not? If  at all there is one or two cost centers with balances you can assess their cost to new cost center.

Rajneesh

[miya_wang]

Hi Nitisha,

So you want to delete these old cost centers which already have postings?

In this case, please refer to KBA 1775927 and note 621108.

Besides, you can delete CO documents that have already been posted with ZKACOR21 (note 175522).

Best regards, Miya

[former_member216878]

Hi Miya ,

Deleting is not at all an option as once a cost is posted in cost center it cannot be deleted right....

What I want to do is to create new cost centers and group them under std. hierarchy but what will happen to the cost which are lying under old cost centers?

Regards

Nitisha