Profit center priority in the RV(Account) document

[former_member204513]

Dear All,

I have one query can you please look in to that.

If I have maintained different profit centers at all these places

1.In Material master Costing view --Profit center -1

2.In the sales order -- Profit center -2

3.In OKB9 transaction -Profit center -3

When I generate the accounting document(RV) from the invoice

Which profit center will come in to the accounting document ?

What is priority sequence of the profit center to reflect in the accounting document?

I hope you got my query

Regards,

Murali.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Murali,

The accountng document(Document type RV) will pick up the profitcenter from the sales order only.

I maintained as per your requirement and I tested also.It is taking from the sales order only.

As the document itself is originated from the sales order itself.So it is taking from the sales order.

Regards,

Krishna.

[Lakshmipathi]

First of all, Mr.Murali thanks for raising an interesting question due to which, I had to spend useful time and learned an useful tips.

All these days, I was under the impression that the priority for profit center will be given from material master to sale order and I never think of the situation where if the profit center is not maintained in material master. In fact, in material master the said field is set to mandatory which I feel is a standard setting.

Anyway, I have tested in various scenarios and following are the findings.

Irrespective of your settings, priority will be given for Profit Center in the following sequence

Till PGI

- Material Master

- Sale Order

- Cost Center

- Controlling Area

Once invoiced

- Material Master

- Sale Order

- Controlling Area

Other than the above areas, even if you maintain in other areas like 3KEH, Assign Default Profit Center to Accounts, It is not at all considering these areas including OKB9 settings which is only for determining cost elements. In fact, I have tried changing "Account assignment details" to 3 but for that also, system is not considering.

thanks

G. Lakshmipathi

[former_member204513]

we came to know ...

System will pick profit center from material master to sales order.

At sales order level we can chenge manually, same will copy to RV document.

If sales order not have the profit center system will search settings in OKB9 transaction.

If profit center data available in OKB9 transaction system will pick that in to the RV document.

Regards,

Murali.

[Former Member]

Dear Murli,

Thanks for sharing the valuable information.

Best Regards,

Amit

[Lakshmipathi]

Dear Murali

No it is not considering OKB9 setting also. I am in the process of testing as to which area system is giving priority. Will update once my testing over.

thanks

G. Lakshmipathi

[former_member204513]

Dear Lakshmipathi,

This is what we tested,

1.We maintained profit center in the material master the same thing is copying to the sales order then to the RV document.

2.We maintained different profit center in the sales order other than in the material master the sales order profit center is coming in the RV document.

3.We maintained different profit center in OKB9,now we created sales order in the sales order we removed profit center which is come from Material master now system is taking OKB9 profit center.

4.Now we maintain different profit center in the Cost center,In OKB9 also we maintained different profit center but we removed in the sales order now system is picking cost center profit center.

Finnaly we came to know that this is the priority

-->Sales Order profit center is the first prirority.

-->If there is no profit center in the sales order then Cost center profit center is the priority.

-->If there is no profit center in the sales order and in the Cost center system will check the G/L account.

-->If there is no profit center in the sales order , in the Cost center and in the G/L account.

OKB9 profit center is the priority.

Please correct me if Iam wrong,

Regards,

Murali.

[Lakshmipathi]

Dear Murali

Profit center in Cost Center will be considered only for PGId accounting document and not for RV document

During my testing, system is not considering OKB9 setting either in PGI accounting document or in RV document. In fact, I have checked with some of my senior friends who have indicated that profit center will not be fetched from OKB9 settings.

In fact, the explanation given in SAP help about OKB9 is that If account assignment that is relevant to cost accounting is demanded at the time of the goods issue posting, this can be solved by the use of a dummy internal order to which the costs for the provided material are posted. The default account assignment can be specified with transaction OKB9.

This means, if you want to capture any datas that relates to cost, you can do so via OKB9 but not profit center.

thanks

G. Lakshmipathi

[Former Member]

Dear Mr. Lakshmipathi and Mr.Murali...

I am facing the same kind of issue now, even i didn;t maintain Profit centre in the Material master but in the sales order it shows dummy. But still in OKB9 Profit centre maintained.

Now they want to Update Profit center in material master . I also tested after updates in material master it picks in the sales order and RV account document

IF I need to update in Production data, what should be the Precautions follow up.

thanks lot

Regards,

Raj.

[Lakshmipathi]

As already stated, Profit Center will always pick up from material master and hence first you have to ensure that in all material masters, profit center is maintained.

Next in the existing sale orders, check whether profit center is maintained. If not maintain manually so that there wont be any issue in FI documents later on.

thanks

G. Lakshmipathi

[Lakshmipathi]

Dear Murali

As you would be aware In standard, by default when you create a sale order, system will fetch Profit Center from your Material Master. If you change manually the Profit Center in sale order, RV document will consider only what is maintained in sale order. This is because, you are generating billing with reference to sale order and this billing document is only released to accounting.

thanks

G. Lakshmipathi

[former_member204513]

Dear Lakshmipathi,

If I didn't maintain profit center at both places in the material master as well as in the sales order but I have maintained in OKB9 transaction from where system will pick.

Is it pick from OKB9 transaction or not !.

If I maintained profit center In the material master and OKB9 from where it will pick !

If I maintained only at OKB9 transaction system will pick or not.

When Dummy profit center will pick.

Regards,

Murali.