Asset budgeting through FM

[Former Member]

In our case Fund Management (BCS) is active. We want to control asset capital budgeting through Fund Management. We want to control the budget through Fund Centre & Commitment Item (derived from Cost Centre + GL Account). While entering a PO for the asset, however, we do not know how to control it ? When the Account assignment category "Asset" is selected, the fields Fund Centre, Commitment items, etc. do not appear in the Account Assignment tab page of PO. Since we are not able to give a cost centre in PO for Asset, how can we control the budget through Cost centre/Commitment item ?

[ajaycwa1981 · Accepted solution]

Hi Niki

have you made settings in ACSET to allow KOSTL as an Account assignment object for APC Postings?

Here you can also select Fund Center as Acct Assgn Obj as well

Is your Asset APC account created as Stat Cost Ele (Catg 90)

I know of IO mechanism to control Budget.. I dont know if the same can be be done using FM

refer the screen shot

http://img689.imageshack.us/i/acset.jpg/

Br, Ajay M

[iklovski]

Hi,

You have to define a derivation strategy (FMDERIVE) fetching the cost centre from the asset master data and building a rule that, upon this cost centre, will derive a fund centre.

Please, keep in mind that budget modules for CO and FM are not the same and you are not obliged to define your account as cost element (90) in order to obtain a budget control in FM.

Regards,

Eli

[Former Member]

thanks to all..

[Former Member]

Hi..When I find the source fields, I have seen asset main and sub number for derivation purposes. If I use the asset number, every time when we add assets, we have to change the derivation rules, right ? Is there no other way to resolve this ?

[Former Member]

One more line..I have already defined a derivation rules that all cost centres are derived as Fund Centres in FMDERIVE. But the fund centre appearing is from another derivation strategy Profit cetres -> Fund Centres. When I remove this derivation strategy, it is returning an error that no fund centre is found even though the cost centre (asset master data) -> fund centre is already available.

[Former Member]

Hi, do not forget to set option Overwrite with new value in fmderive for Fund center field

[iklovski]

Hi,

You don't need to add asset, if your rule is generic. Asset information is coming to the FMDERIVE structure (COBL) and therefore, if your rule willbe reading the info from the master data, there will be no need of adding the asset numbers to the rule itself; it will come with FMDT_READ_MD_ASSET function.

Regards,

Eli

[iklovski]

Hi,

Regarding your other question: all the rules are consecutive and the next one could, if flagged accordingly, eliminate the previous one. You can also define, whether the rule should overwrite the previous one only in case, this new rule brings some value with it, and if it's empty - then it won't overwrite the existing value.

Regards,

Eli

[Former Member]

Hello Eli

I have made a derivation rule for the cost centre (which is available in the asset master) to fund centre. I have made the fund centre derive rule to overwrite with new values also. But at the time of PO, system is not deriving the fund centre and it says no fund centre is derived for the commitment item.

[Former Member]

Hi, trace derivation during creating PO

[Former Member]

Hi Alex

I created the asset and included in it cost centre and fund centre. However, in the PO, derivation of fund centre is not done from the asset master cost centre. It is being derived from the profit centre of the cost centre in the asset master. If I delete the derivation of Profit centre -> Fund centre, system is issuing error message that no fund centre is derived. Why it is not deriving the fund centre from the asset master cost centre ?

[Former Member]

Hi, as i said you can trace derivation.

If you use FM that Eli mentioned,then you have input parameters Posting date,COMP_CODE,ASSET_NO,SUB_NUMBER, so you need to fill all these fields. Then in derivation for target field FISTL define option Overwrite with new value.

In this case you can to not delete derivation of FC from PC, just position this rule(Asset-FC) after rule PC-FC

[Former Member]

thanks.