Quick Migration for Basic Scenario 

Purpose

This section describes quick migration on the basis of a simple scenario. If you do not require parallel accounting or document splitting, the migration of existing SAP data in Financial Accounting does not demand a great amount of effort.

SAP also recommends in this case that the migration is performed within the framework of a project because such a project ensures sufficient confrontation with the various aspects of migration. In any case, you should first familiarize yourself with the procedure in a test system so that the affected areas (user department and consultants) obtain an estimation for the events involved.

Process Flow

You must perform the following activities for the migration:

●      Set up Customizing of New General Ledger Accounting

●      Set up Customizing for the migration

●      Perform closing operations and close the old fiscal year incl. balance carryforward

●      Start the migration

●      Create worklists

●      Transfer open items with posting date falling before the current fiscal year. You build general ledger line items and set the balance total of these open items in period 0 (balance carryforward) of the current fiscal year in the new totals table.

●      Transfer balance carryforward of G/L accounts not managed on an open item basis.

●      Transfer all documents (all G/L accounts) of current fiscal year and set balances in new tables according to their respective periods.

●      Where applicable, perform manual reposting (splitting) of balance carryforward to desired dimensions not contained in the table for classic General Ledger Accounting, GLT0 (such as profit center).

●      Activate New General Ledger Accounting

●      End the migration

You find all of these activities in the process tree of the New GL Migration Cockpit. In this way, the process tree serves as a step-by-step guide to the migration.

In the following sections, the standard tables FAGLFLEXT and FAGLFLEXA are used to represent the tables for New General Ledger Accounting. Industry-specific standard tables (FMGLFLEXT, FMGLFLEXA) are used by public sector customers.