cons profit center

[Former Member]

Hi,

I assign company and cons profit center to the cons unit characteristic role in the databasis.

And then in the master data of cons profit center, i create hierachy , cons profit center group,cons profit center. But the hierarchy of profit centers doesnt appear in the consolidation monitor. It works for hierarchy of company (it appears in the consolidation monitor). Do i miss something?

Note : I dont want to use the combination of cons unit. I just want to have 2 versions in the same consolidation area. one version for company hierarchy and the other version for profit center hierarchy.

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

In the usual matrix ConsArea hierarchies are switched by chosing the upper level (icon of hierarchy itself) in the 1st column - right click - Swap Characteristic with ... and select another ConsUnits hierarchy.

But, in my experience without setting of ConsUnits combination the hierarchy of units do not appear in the monitor at all.

You may have as many hierarchies of ConsUnits as you want.

But to have not linked (by setting combinations) hierarchies of units in case of matrix do not have any sense for me at all. You'll not be able to post entries to both units at ones. Moreover, only one units is currency-bearing.

If you want just separate consolidation process for companis and profit centers you'll have to use at least separate data basises.

Or maybe profit center as a subassignment will serve you better?

[Former Member]

can i run the interunit elimination by profit center if i put it as subassignment?

[Former Member]

Definitely, not.

[Former Member]

so u have 2 separated data basis when u need to run both legal consolidation and management consolidation ,don't u?

Thanks a lot Eugene.

[dan_sullivan]

You can have a single databasis and cons area with a matrix organization. To do so simply assign both the company and profit center to the role of cons unit in the databasis. It cannot occur with profit center assigned the role of subassignment.

[Former Member]

No, I'm wrong. You may have just one basis. And recently in one of the threads I wrote that in one data basis you may even have a matrix and one-dimension ConsAreas.

Edited by: Eugene Khusainov on Dec 1, 2009 9:19 PM

[dan_sullivan]

With a matrix organization in BCS it is necessary to "toggle" from company hierarchy to profit center hierarchy. This is accomplished by right-clicking on the hierarchy in the cons monitor and choosing to switch to characteristic profit center.

Edited by: Dan Sullivan on Nov 25, 2009 9:54 AM

[Former Member]

as soon as you assigned CU role to both, u are invoking the matrix structure even if u don't have any combinations checked. do your parameters have consolidation profit center group field showing up? sound like u want to have only one version but two (parallel) hierarchies. i think SAP wants u to create new versions if u are using more than one hierarchy.