Substitution rule - Bank charges GL account

[former_member574239]

Dear All,

I have a scenario in which I seek your help please.

I need to change my Bank charge GL account (account determination).

In OBXK, the Bank Charges GL account is maintained at COA level. So, I can't change the configuration.

So, I am going for substitution.

When I check substitution steps, there are 12 steps in development system and 17 in QA system. So, there is discrepancy in the substitution steps.

Should I create the Substitution steps manually in Dev (and make it same as QA) or is there a way where in I can import the substitution steps in Development system?

Please suggest.

Regards

Saurabh

[sanilbhandari · Accepted solution]

Hi

Ideally if all your legal entities use the same operational chart of accounts, you should have a similar GL Account for Bank Charges. If however, you need to change it, one of the options is to use the search string functionality in EBS to set it up. You can change this not just for a company code, but bank account level as well. The below blogs should help you set up Search Strings for EBS.

https://blogs.sap.com/2014/05/06/ebs-configuration-of-search-string-part-1/

Regarding the substitution steps, the steps are transferred at a rule level in a WB request from dev to QA and Prod. So i would suggest to bring Dev and QA in synch and than add the step for GL Substitution. That would be the better way. Also make Substitution transaction only available for Display through Authorization Controls.

However, I would still also encourage to look at the possibility of using search string rather than substitution rule in this particular case

Regards

Sanil Bhandari

[former_member574239 · Accepted solution]

Dear Mr.Bhandari,

Thank you for your answer!!

I am posting an incoming payment (using F-28) and posting to Bank charges. Instead of GL 5102XXX, I want to replce the GL with another account. So, I am not sure if use the search string functionality would help.

Please suggest.

Regards

Saurabh

[sanilbhandari · Accepted solution]

Hi

If that is the case, please go ahead and create a substituion step.

regards

Sanil Bhandari

[former_member574239 · Accepted solution]

Hello Mr.Bhandari,

Thank you for your answer.

I created one Substitution Step to replace the Bank Charges in OBBH.

Please find below the Prerequisites and Substitution:

Prerequisites:

BKPF-BUKRS= 'ABCD' and BSEG-HKONT='XXXXXX'

Substitution:

BSEG-HKONT is substituted by Constant Value 'YYYYYYY'.

However, when I transported the Substitution to Quality, it does not work. I can see the prerequisites but not the substitution.

Am I missing any step?

Please suggest.

Regards

Saurabh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Regenerate the substitution? RGUGBR00

[sanilbhandari · Accepted solution]

Hi

Was it working in Dev and did you check the status of transport movement from Dev to Quality? You might need to check the transport logs. I would suggest to transport again if things are missing. Also regenerate the substituion using program

RGUGBR00

regards

Sanil Bhandari

[former_member574239 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Thank you for your answer. It worked.

Regards

Saurabh

[sanilbhandari · Accepted solution]

Hi

Great to know that your issue is resolved. You can than Mark the ques as resolved.

Regards

Sanil