Vendor investment

[former_member136467]

Hello everyone,

My client wants to use a different G/L account for his asset supplier and to do that we wanted to use the vendor investment configuration available in tcode OBBX in S/4Hana OP. We would like to configure "INH" and "INS" operations keys but can't find them in the automatic account determination in S/4Hana Cloud.

For your information, our client's supplier can be a "goods supplier" and "asset supplier" at the same time and those two don't use the same G/L account. We can't create the supplier twice because of his government identification which can't exist twice in SAP.

Do we have to activate a specific scope item ? Do you have any input ?

Thanks for your help.

HM

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[Shakeel_Ahmed · Accepted solution]

Hi Hawa,

In order to achieve your requirement, you can use 'Alternative Reconciliation Account' functionality.

4 Steps to be done:

1. GL Master: Mark your reconciliation G/L as "Recon. acct ready for input"

2. Business Partner: Update any reconciliation (best suited) GL in Business Partner (Vendor)

3. Config: Reconciliation and Alternative GL. SSCUI: Define Alternative Reconciliation Accounts (102631)

4. Invoice posting: During Invoice posting (Invoice Verification) you can change the recon G/L as per your requirement.

Regards

Shakeel

[former_member136467 · Accepted solution]

Hi Shakeel,

Thanks for your answer.

We already tried that solution, but it won't work without doing a substitution rule with a user exit because if they acquire an asset via the purchase order process then we won't have the CGS code in posting goods movement.

Hawa

[Shakeel_Ahmed · Accepted solution]

Hi Hawa,

Mentioned solution will help you identifying the accounts payable (vendor balances) as per the requirement.

Basically, you are also looking similar bifurcation in GR/IR Account, right?

Ideally everything shall be posted to vendor by month end, and you will get the result what you need anyways.

However, life is not that smooth that 100% GR/IR will be posted, and it becomes Zero at month end. If you have balance in GR/IR then you can manually post the accounting entry (Journal Voucher) at the month end to do the bifurcation, and after this you can also place these GLs accordingly in the FSV for proper reporting.

Regards

Shakeel

[former_member136467 · Accepted solution]

Hello Shakeel,

Thanks again fo ryour reply.

I tried the configuration you gave me plus those below :

- https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2853117

- https://userapps.support.sap.com/sap/support/knowledge/en/2844132

But even after all that, I can't change the G/L account while posting my invoice. It seems that this solution is not supported in S/4Hana Cloud. In note 2853117, there is a part where they say that "the usage of alternative reconciliation accounts is not supported. It is NOT possible to edit the reconciliation account".

Someone in the thread below said that it is currently not available :

https://answers.sap.com/questions/13242905/what-apps-can-use-alternative-reconciliation-accou.html

Plus, I found out that you can't delete entries in SSCUI: Define Alternative Reconciliation Accounts (102631) and I can confirm it with the test that I did....

In conlusion this solution doesn't work and if it did, the fact that I can't delete entries in the configuration is not a good thing.

Regards,

Hawa

[Shakeel_Ahmed]

Hi Hawa,

It shall work for MIRO also in the standard without any additional settings.

First of all you shall be be able to see the reconciliation gl and it shall be in change mode. Please check the reconciliation gl that is coming jn MIRO if all relevant setting are there or not.

Please also check if there is additional settings for MIRO like screen variant or something which is stopping this for you.

Ideally it shall work for MIRO as well.

Regards

Shakeel

[former_member136467]

Hello Shakeel,

Thanks a lot.

I can see the reconciliation account but it's not in change mode (only display) and I found those notes saying it can't be changed in standard...It might be possible with an exit though... Did you do a user exit ?

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2853117

I looked everywhere but could not find a way to change screen variant/layout in Hana Cloud. Do you know where I can change the screen variant for MIRO in Hana Cloud public ?

Regards,

Hawa

[Shakeel_Ahmed]

Hi Hawa,

Yeah, that will be the limitation as per the note.

In that case you will have to put some fixed description during invoice posting may be in Line-Item text or Document Header Text etc. to understand the nature of transaction.

Regards

Shakeel

[former_member136467]

Hello Shakeel,

App "creat supplier invoice - Advanced" is MIRO so that means I can't use the alternative reconciliation account solution in my case in Hana Cloud.

We asked SAP about the investment vendor (tcode OBBX) equivalent in Hana Cloud but they said that it doesn't exist ... SAP didn't add it yet to cloud and you have to do a customer influence to get it ...

The only solution left now is to try to do a user exit with substitutions rules.

Thanks a lot for your time and I now know about alternative reconcialiation account !!

Regards,

Hawa

[Shakeel_Ahmed]

Hi Hawa,

I have done this solutioning 2 months back for a customer in S/4HANA (Public) Cloud and it works fine. You must be missing something in the entire process.

Regards

Shakeel

[former_member136467]

Hello Shakeel,

So your solution works perfectly but only for FB60 app. It's doesn't work for MIRO app and that's the one I want to use because we are going to have purchase orders.

Can you please tell me how you did it if you were able to use it in MIRO ?

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,

Hawa