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Mar 04, 2009 at 08:56 AM

Are Business Areas obsolete with ECC 6.0 and the new GL?

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I have long heard that SAP is not planning on supporting Business Areas long term. Howver in the help documenation they still have them listed.

One solution offered to remove them is: With the advent of new GL in ECC; the field profit center and the PCA ledger is now an integral part of new gl (FAGLFLEX). profit center and other custom fields can now easily be defined as a zero balance entity - which means it works exactly in similar fashion as BA use to work. In addition, you can mantain a PCA hierarchy and it is an attribute that appears on key objects in SAP i.e. material master, production order, purchase order etc.

However, for customers that are using both BA's and PC's already (for example using BA's to represent plant groupings and PC's along product lines) is there a real need to make a change and remove the BA's from the current system to avoid future problems?