Funds Commitment (Cost Centers, Internal Orders, Projects) (SAP Library

Funds Commitment (Cost Centers, Internal Orders, Projects)

Use

You use this function to enter anticipated costs or revenues where you do not yet know which business transaction will later cause them (purchase order, material reservation and so on). In this way, you can reserve parts of the budget in advance.

You can assign funds commitment to internal orders, cost centers, or projects.

Integration

A funds commitment that is assigned to a WBS element, a network, or an internal order is part of the active budget availability control. The funds commitment checks whether the available budget is still sufficient. The system includes defined tolerance limits below and above the budget.

For more information, see Availability Control.

The system displays the funds commitment as a commitment in the information system for the account assignment objects. For more information, see Commitments Management.

You can archive the documents for funds commitment. For more information on archiving, see: CA - Archiving Application Data.

Prerequisites

To process the funds commitment, you need the corresponding authorizations for each document type from the K_KMOB_DCT authorization object.

Features

Funds commitment includes the following single activities:

Creating Funds Commitments

You create a funds commitment as a marked document, which contains:

Data in the document header, that is valid for the entire document
At least one funds commitment item that contains the actual data on the funds commitment.

Changing Funds Commitments

You can change the funds commitment as well as enter more items for funds commitment.

Reducing Funds Commitments

When you manually reduce a funds commitment, you enter the reduction amount for the funds commitment item. You use the open amount to determine the reduction amount. The reduction amount is always the difference between the funds commitment amount, and the total of the partial amounts already reduced. The reduction amount must not be greater than the open amount.

You can:

Reduce one funds commitment
You can reduce the items for one marked document by specifying the document number for a funds commitment.
Reduce more than one funds commitment
You can reduce the items in marked documents for more than one funds commitment when you are in a list.

Calling Up Reduction History

Reduction reference
For information purposes, you can make reference to a follow-up document (such as, order, purchase order, FI document) through which the actual costs will be or have been incurred.

To enter a reduction reference for reduction documents already entered, choose Edit ® Reduction references in the reduction history.

To enter reduction references for the current reduction document, choose Extras ® Reduction references from the list screen or detail screen.

Reversing reduction references
You can reverse individual reduction postings. Place the cursor on a reduction document in the reduction history, and choose Reverse. The system indicates the reduction document in the STO column as reversed.

Evaluations Of Funds Commitment Documents In The Information System