Integration with Other Components 

The following components are integrated into Flexible Real Estate Management:

·         Financial Accounting (FI) handles the creation of all required financial statements (see Integration with Financial Accounting below).

·         Controlling (CO) provides a planning and control instrument for all quantity and values flows in Real Estate Management. Controlling also supports general cost accounting procedures from absorption costing to activity-based costing.

·         Plant Maintenance (PM) and Customer Service (CS) help you plan and implement scheduled and non-scheduled maintenance work, reconstruction, or new development in the Real Estate area (for more information, see Integration with Plant Maintenance (PM)) .

·         Materials Management (MM) facilitates purchase order processing of materials as part of planned repair tasks related to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, as well as general building maintenance.

·         Project System (PS) assists with planning complex maintenance and investment projects, while taking constant risk factors into account (see also Integration with Plant Maintenance (PM)).

·         Asset Accounting (FI-AA) manages the valuation of fixed assets from an accounting point of view (see Integration with Asset Accounting below).

·         Document Management SAP Records Management (BC-SRV-RM), Document Management (CA-DMS),and optical archiving (BC-SRV-ARL) give you an overview of all documents and correspondence associated with business processes (see Integration of SAP Records Management below).

 

Integration with Financial Accounting (FI)

Accounting in Flexible Real Estate Management (RE-FX) is integrated with the Financial Accounting (FI) component. This component is the prerequisite for accounting functions in RE-FX. All postings and financial transactions with contracting parties take place in Financial Accounting.

§         For more information about accounting in RE-FX, see Accounting (RE-FX).

§         For more information on integration of new General Ledger Accounting with RE-FX, see Integration with New General Ledger Accounting.

 

Integration with Asset Accounting, Controlling, and Project System

On the Assignments tab page in master data processing, you can create or assign fixed assets, CO orders, and projects for all object types for which you have allowed this in Customizing.

For more information about assignment, see Creating and Assigning External Objects from RE-FX.

 

You can display the assigned objects in reporting. To see the CO values or asset values of these objects, you can use BW reporting.

The Controlling (CO) component is the prerequisite if you want to use this integration for the master data of real estate objects. Using CO, you can execute manual CO planning on real estate objects and settle the costs incurred on real estate objects to other CO objects or other real estate objects (CO settlement).

For more information, see Controlling.

 

Integration of SAP Records Management and Document Management

SAP Records Management (BC-SRV-RM) is available for document management. SAP Records Management is a standard solution for electronic record management. It allows you to flexibly define record structures (= record models), for example, your own specific structure for a tenant record.

The connection to RE-FX means that exactly one record can be automatically created for each real estate object (BE, PR, BU, RO, AO, REC). In the standard system, there is one record model for each object type. However, using a BAdI implementation, you can specify any record model for creating a record. You can jump directly from the RE Navigator to the record.

For more information, see Record Management Using SAP Records Management.

For more information about document management, see Document Management in RE-FX.