COST CENTER IN BILLING DOCUMENT (VF01)

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

Please guide me how to update the cost center field in the billing dcoument.what is the functionality of that cost center field in the billing document.If I maintian a cost center in the billing document whether it will also updated in the accounting documents and and the coste center will also update in the tcode FB03 and KSB1 ?

Appreciate a early Feed back.......

Thanks in Advance...

Regards,

Surendra Kumar....

[former_member581304]

This is a very old discussion but still I would like to add some comments for the sake of completeness so that any new comers have a full picture.

In SAP we have different types of cost objects, for example, cost center, internal order, sales order, profitability segement etc... When there are multiple cost object assignments, one will prevail and the others will become statistical posting.

The question here asked about if it is possible to assign a sales order line item to a cost center. The answer is a big NO. I have made a test recently because I got similar kind of questions from the client. I have used a "revenue" account of cost element type 1, and maintained OKB9 entry so that I can default the cost center from profit center. In the end I get a posting, but in controlling, PSG (profitability segment) get the real credit, while cost center gets a "statistical" posting (indicated by VT value type 4). What happened here is that when SAP has two cost objects, i.e. a PSG and a cost center, cost center is always deprioritized and becomes a statistical cost object, while PSG becomes the real cost object.

In general, whenever cost center is used in combination with other cost object, cost center is statistical.

When I change the cost center to an internal order, or to a proper type of sales order (that can act as cost object), I donot have any posting to PSG, meaning that in these cases the PSG gets suppressed.

So to conclude, you can never get a billing doc posting to a cost center (because PSG will always prevail over cost center). You might get a posting to cost center but it is going to be statistical.

One workaround will be for you post the billing to an internal order and you settle the internal order to the cost center. But this will create more FICO postings, not sure if it is desired by the business.

[Former Member]

Hi, it is not possible to maintain cost center field into SD invoice. It is copied from the sales order to the SD invoice..

If the cost center is not maintained neither in sales order neither in SD invoice, it could be determined in FI/CO via default. For instance, in customizing transaction OKB9 you can define the "default account assignment" for controlling object (such as cost center, internal order and so on...) for each cost element.. This means that cost center could be filled into FI (ex. FB03) and CO (ex. KSB1) even if it is not filled into the corresponding SD invoice (i.e. VBRP-KOSTL).

Hope this help!

Bye - M

[Former Member]

Hi,

In this billing document,this cost centre field will appear from the order only.

It is defined for the WBS element.

Goto T.Code:CJ20n

Click on open WBS element.

This cost center is defined in this WBS element.

It will be useful for creating the accounting entry so that the amount exchange will be done through it.

The same will be updated which is maintained in order will appear in billing document and accounting document as well.

Check in T.Code:FB03 for this accounting document entry.

KS01 is the T.Code for creating a new cost centre.

KS02 is for change and KS03 is for display of costcentres.

Regrads,

Krishna.