Profit Center Question

[Former Member]

Hello,

I am having issues with the profit center while posting to a revenue account. When i use the journal entry upload with the proper profit center loaded and cost center being left blank. When i upload i receive the red triangle error message saying the entry requires a "CO Object". To clear the error i have to click assign profitability segment, i can see the correct profit center. If i just click "Derive & Close" it clears the error.

The system performs the same if I prepare a journal entry manually.  I would have expected, after selecting a revenue GL account, for profit center to be a required, and available field, in the account assignment section.  Instead, it is not present, and I can only assign to a profit center by assigning it within the Profitability Segment area.  Should profit center not simply be a required field, and CO object / profitability segment not be necessary?

[former_member94298 · Accepted solution]

We have encountered exactly the same issue - and the S4HC product currently seems to be a bit inconsistently delivered when it comes to this sort of COPA integration.

For example, you can make postings like this fine using the data migration template using the 'Assign to profitability segment' (PROFITSEG) field - but there seems to be no equivalent when actually posting a document yourself.

As you say, you can get around this by going into the profitability segment if posting a journal manually - but from a practical perspective, this isn't really a workable solution - and to make things worse, you can't even do this if uploading a journal from excel.

We got around the issue by creating an automatic account assignment to profitability segment for the relevant revenue accounts (using the new SCCUI version of the old OKB9 setup).

It's not an entirely satisfactory solution - but at least it sort of works!

As you say, it would be far better for the system to just treat a profit centre as a 'real' account assignment - or allow a flag to indicate that you want this posting to go straight to profitability.

I suspect that this whole issue is a hangover from the legacy FI/CO structure of things!

[rb2020 · Accepted solution]

Clare - thanks, appreciate your post. We did indeed go into the SSCUI number 100003, and configure each revenue account on each company code by checking the box for 'profitability segment', seemingly essentially instructing the system to automatically calculate profitability segment instead of waiting for us to manually tell it to do so. It seems to be working great for us. Although the setup was tedious, it seems to be a fine solution. I still agree with your assessment that Profit Center should simply be satisfactory for this purpose.

[rb2020]

Hi - I am Aundrea's colleague. Attached is a screenshot including the field status group (YB29)

[former_member132042]

Hi ‎@Aundrea Entrekin, this kind of control is part of SAP standard consistency check. Can you share screenshots about your Profit Center Master data (maybe it is statistical) and G/L Account Master Data ?

[former_member94298]

I am not sure that this is to do with the field status group. I seem to recall that historically, SAP did not treat a profit center as a 'real' CO assignment - hence the system behaving in this way.

Take a look at OSS note 41103 - old but still holds true even in S4HC!

I suppose you could also look at building a substitution to fill in the required data - but the OKB9 approach (or whatever it is called these days) seems to work pretty well

[former_member132042]

Thanks, may I ask you to add one more screenshot with the Field status group?

[former_member132042]

Thank you ‎@aundrea.entrekin, can you share the same for G/L Account with the Field status group (cpy code data) & Cost element category (Controlling data), please?

[Former Member]

Hello,

it will only let me upload one photo at a time.