In this activity you name all the affiliated companies for which the system should find the partner profit center by reading the corresponding purchase order or sales order. The system does this by reading the corresponding purchase order or sales order.
This is possible when the company is in the same client of your system and is using the SAP modules MM or SD.
Activities
Select the field Read for the desired companies.
Note that reading the logistical preceding documents impairs system performance. You should therefore only activate the indicator if it is also possible to determine the partner profit centers.
Further notes
This read indicator is also used for business area consolidation.
You can find further information in the R/3 Library, under Profit Center Accounting, Preparation for Consolidation.