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Jun 06, 2018 at 01:45 AM

How to disable automatic profit center assignment from WBS in PR under OPEX?

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We are using work breakdown structures (WBS) to keep track of budgets and actual costs for certain projects. Sometimes such project will have cost from CAPEX or OPEX. When we raise purchase requisitions from SAP and assign account assignment (typically A for CAPEX and K for OPEX), we would like to assign a WBS to track budget and actual cost usage when this PR is related to this project. In the case of OPEX, we will enter both the cost center and the cost account, as well as the WBS. Currently the default mechanism of SAP will assign the profit center to the account assignment based on the WBS, which is a hidden field.

Upon goods receipt, SAP generates an account document which debits the cost account under the cost center we entered, but also put it under the profit center of the WBS. For the credit side, it is the GR not invoiced G/L account (a balance sheet) account and also under the same profit center of the WBS.

For the credit side it is fine. But for the debit side, the assignment of this profit center affected many of our reports. Our current config assign the same code as the profit center to the cost center and many of our reports treats profit center similar to cost center. The debit line created in this case has different cost center and profit center which caused problems to many of our reports.

We would like to see if it is possible to change the profit center of this debit line which based on cost account to use the same value as the cost center.

Are there any configuration to help to suppress the automatic profit center assignment from WBS in the purchase requisition when it is OPEX?

Thank you.