Linking a Cost Center to an SD Condition Type

[Former Member]

Hello SD Experts,

We have a scenario wherein a Sales Order has the following condition types in its pricing procedure:

Base Price Condition Type

Freight Condition Type

Insurance Condition Type

The Base Price Condition Type is posted to a revenue account (receivables), which is a normal process. The Freight and Insurance, however, require to be charged to a Cost Center and not posted to a revenue account.

From the posts in the forum, assigning a cost center at header level is possible via OVF3. Correct me if I'm wrong, this would make the entire value in the Sales Order a cost to the company rather than a revenue which is not the case. For the scenario above, is there a way to spcifically link a cost center to an SD Condition Type?

Your Inputs will be greatly appreciated.

gssantos

[Former Member]

hi,

this is to inform you that,

there might be an work around for it.

1. even for document category C - cost centre will get activated in for sales order at item level in accounting assigment page if you press profit segment. you can make that field mandatory and link this to a G/L account which you will use for frieght condition type.

please test and confirm.

balajia

[Lakshmipathi]

Apart from the suggestion already given, you may also be aware that if the "SD Document category" is "I" in VOV8, then in that case also, cost center will become active in sale order.

thanks

G. Lakshmipathi

[Former Member]

Hello SD Experts,

Thank you for the responses!

Have some queries on some of the responses.

If I change the Document Category from 'C' to 'I', does this mean that the whole document amount will be considered as a cost (since 'I' means free of charge)? Hesitant to edit the document category since only a portion of the invoice amount should be charged to a cost center and the rest would still be a revenue.

I have also tried putting the cost center in profit segment, however, the cost center was not picked up when the invoice was released to accounting. Moreover, the OKB9 set-up was maintained.

Thanks again for your kind consideration!

gssantos

[reazuddin_md]

Demand of Cost centre could be based on

- Order reason ( as you rightly said), - To whole document

- Requirement type ( Tx:OVZG) - To whole line item

- G/L account , if linked to Cost Element. - to respective cond type

if you want to restrict only wrt: Cond type. Try to post the respective cond type in a seperate G/L acount, where this G/L account demands & picks Cost Centre, which can be defaulted from Customization. take assistance with FI to achieve the same.

Regards,

Reazuddin MD