Profit Center Substitution Not getting reflected in FI document in FB03

[former_member767623]

We are raising AP invoce on the back of billing document , we need default profit centre instead of Profit centre derived from cost centre master in FI document for certain scenarios. presently we are manupualting the Profit centre in FI substitution exits in ZGGBS000 but it is not reflecting in FB03

[sanilbhandari]

Hi radha.krishna3

There are specific ways in which profit center derivation for GL Postings work. The below blog would give you an insight on how it works:

https://blogs.sap.com/2014/09/08/profit-center-derivation-in-different-scenarios/

You may not be able to substitute the profit center from cost center if you are posting to a cost element.

Thanks & Regards

Sanil Bhandari

[former_member767623]

Thank you very much for your reply Sanil Bhandari..

My case is related to as per the blog you suggested.

CasePC derived fromGL Account is a cost element > CO object

I am from technical side and we are manipulating the Profit center in FI substitution exits in program ZGGBS000 . We are debugged very deeply and all the time our manipulated Profit center only holding with BSEG-PRCTR. But when we see in FB03 the profit center derived from cost centre master itself but not our manipulated Profit center. Kindly suggest how can we achieve this issue to hold the manipulated profit center in FB03.

Thanks in advance.

[sanilbhandari]

Hi radha.krishna3

This is exactly why i referred the blog. If you have a cost center in the line item, than the profit center which is assigned in the cost center master is the one, which would be updated in the line item, even though you have a substitution rule.

From a definition perspective, a profit center is an organizational unit which reflects all the revenue and cost that can be attributed to that object. Now you have a cost center as a object to collect costs and since the profit center is assigned to the cost center, the costs flows to profit center as well. Based on revenue postings, one can calculate Profit/loss at the level of a profit center.

Now if we allow the profit center to be different from that assigned in the cost center master, you will have revenues on PC 1 and Costs on PC 2, which does not make sense from a pure accounting point of view and that is why the flexibility of a different profit center is not allowed, even through substitution. So the system is behaving correctly and as expected. I would suggest you to question your business user on the rationale for such a requirement from a business perspective.

Thanks & Regards

Sanil Bhandari