Activate Profit Center Accounting with Splitter in SPL / New GL

[Former Member]

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We are Public Sector and are on ECC 6.0, we have been splitting Document based on Business Area and Fund. Before migrating to New GL functionality, we are also thinking to use the feature of document splitting with characteristic profit center. To do that we are thinking of the two following scenarios, but want to understand the possibility, the benefits and impact on the system

Scenario A. Activating Profit Center Accounting with Splitter in Special Purpose Ledger on the GO-live date and populate Profit Center field in Classical G/L.

Scenario B. Activating Profit Center Accounting with Splitter In New G/L on the GO-live date and populate Profit Center field in New G/L.

[Former Member]

we decided with

activate PCA even an year after and populate PCA data in New GL

[Former Member]

sorry, I forgot to mention.

our fisical year starts from July 1st ... so I have mentioned 07/01/2011

[Former Member]

Yes, I understand that (ours too). Based on your diagram, migration will be some time after 7/1/2011.

Actually, I think what SAP recommends is complete migration before opening the new FY for posting. In any case, if you want to add a new split characteristic and you are already using SPL, I think it is better to add it to SPL before NewGL migration because SAP handles migration with SPL and without SPL (from classic GL) differently. With SPL is a lot more straight forward.

Regards,

Ming

[Former Member]

Hi,

Your migration point is in the middle of the year and you are migrating already spitted documents from SPL tables to NewGL tables. Based on this, I would think you want to make spit posting by profit center (together with BA and Funds Center) availble in SPL starting from 7/1/2011. For open items without profit center, if they can not be cleared by 7/1/2011, you will need to migrate them from GL to SPL.

Regards,

Ming