Creating Profit Centers (Individual Processing)
There are two places where you can create a profit center:
Note that you can only create a dummy profit center in Customizing (see Maintaining dummy profit centers).
Process Flow
If you want to copy the new profit center from an existing one, enter the name of the existing profit center in the Copy from box. You can copy the profit center from a different controlling area. If you do so, fields which are not controlling area-dependent will be copied to the new profit center as empty fields.
When you enter a name for a profit center, the system interprets purely numerical entries as numbers and automatically inserts leading zeros. For example, if you create a profit center 333, the system saves this as 0000000333. This has the consequence that you cannot search for this profit center using the Possible entries function by entering 3*. You can prevent this by entering at least one letter somewhere in the profit center name.
When you have created the profit center, you can divide it into several analysis periods - see
The hierarchy area is always valid for the entire period of validity. It cannot therefore be used to distinguish various analysis periods.
If the enterprise organization is active in the controlling area, you must enter a hierarchy area. However, this is overwritten as soon as the profit center is assigned to another node in the enterprise organization.
Enterprise organization assignment and the standard hierarchy derived from this always have priority over manual assignments.
On this tab page you can also see whether the profit center is defined as a dummy profit center. However, you cannot change this setting.
If you use Formula Planning, assign a template to the profit center on this tab page. The system uses this to calculate plan values for the profit center when you run Formula Planning.
With Consolidation (EC-CS), it might be necessary to enter certain company codes. If the profit center is not assigned to a company code, the system displays an error message whenever a posting is made to that profit center in EC-CS.
Note that joint venture data can only be assigned to the profit center for the company code to which it has been assigned.