Default Cost center in Foreign Exchange fluctuation account

[former_member221515]

Hi

I am doing FB60 of 100$ (1$ = Rs.45). Cost center used at the time of FB60 is 1100 (i,e, engineering division) Now i am paying in full and clearing the same invoice. Exchange rate at the time of Payment is 1$ = Rs.47.

Now the SAP is picking the cost center given in FB60 i.e. 1100 instead of cost center (i.e. 7500 - finance) defined by default in the cost element. Let me know why the system is picking cost center from FB60.

[Former Member]

Dear,

If you are working on ECC 6.0,Cost center 1100 picked by system is may be because Document Splitting functionality if active in your system.

Defaulting cost center in cost element is enough and moreover you can maintain default assignment in OKB9.

Regards,

Chintan Joshi.

[former_member221515]

Yes document is active. But i do not want such splitting,

In OKB9, it is already mentioned as profit center 7500 to which cost center 7500 is attached. I have also specified cost center as 7500 as default cost center in cost element.

Edited by: Deepak Agrawal on Oct 7, 2009 4:06 PM

[Former Member]

Dear Deepak,

System gives priority to the assignment in the Offsetting account over the other when Document Splitting is active because system puts logic that invoice belongs to the cost center 1100 then any forex loss or gain should be attributed to that cost center that is the reason why it is taking 1100 as the default cost center.

You can not avoid this accept manual changes if any because your business process is defined accordingly.

Regards,

Chintan Joshi.

[former_member221515]

it means nothing can be done.

But it also picks up cost center for my forex gain account for which cost element category is defined as 11. So it gives error that cost center is blocked against the revenue posting (because of the lock tick in control tab in cost center). So tell me what to do now.

[Former Member]

Dear

For any revenue account field cost center should always be suppressed and profit center should be optional or mandatory. So try this.

Regards,

Chintan Joshi.

[former_member221515]

Inspite of supressing the cost center field, its throwing error that Cost Center is blocked against revenue.

[Former Member]

HI,

Is this issue solved? If not try this thing. Remove the cost center assignment in the cost element, as you are assigning the profit center in OKB9. For a cost element if it is a revenue item profit center should be assigned, if it is a cost item cost center should be assigned.

In your case, cost center is assigned in cost element and also profit center is assigned in OKB9.

For one cost element we can not assign both cost center and profit center.

Hope this should help you

Thanks and Regards

Om prakash RA

Edited by: Om Prakash Arjuna on Nov 27, 2009 3:57 PM

[Former Member]

Hi,

The system will not pick any Cost Center in FB60.

In the GL you might mentioned the default Cost Center-1100.

So take out the Default assignment of Cost center and provide the value what you want at the time of postings.

Regards,

Sridhar Sha