SPL and Parallel Ledger

[Former Member]

I am new to SAP. Could someone highlight the major differences between parallel ledger and special purpose ledger in terms of features and usability?

[Former Member]

Thanks Srikanth.

What i gather is that we now use parallel ledger instead of Special purpose ledger.

Does Parallel provide any additional fuctionality or flexibility apart from the ease in defining the table groups.

Regards,

Mohit

[Former Member]

I don't understand. Special purpose ledger itself is a parallel ledger. Special purpose ledger was used earlier to ECC 5.0. ECC 5.0 onwards, if you activate new GL, you can have non-leading ledgers as parallel ledgers (similar to erstwhile special purpose ledger).

In the old SPL world, you had to do a lot of configuration yourself - like generating table structures, creating special purpose ledgers and assigning line item and totals tables to the ledgers, assigning activities and field movements to special purpose ledgers.

A lot of that configuration is automated in new GL; saves you a lot of work, believe me. New GL is old wine (SPL) in new bottle - the wine just tastes better!