Characteristic that is defined by customers to enhance the master record of consolidation units.

You can define any number of attributes for the consolidation unit. You can use these attributes in some consolidation functions and in reports.

All custom attributes are of equal importance to the standard attributes of the consolidation unit.

• Country
• Company
• Business area
• Controlling area
• Profit center

You can use SAP enhancement FMC10001 to develop your own screens for maintaining the master data. These screens can contain additional fields with your own defined tables. However this enhancement requires extensive programming work by the customers. In contrast to that, you do not have to carry out programming work with the custom attributes for the consolidation unit.

You define the attributes at the beginning of Customizing for Consolidation.

You can define existing entities of other SAP components as attributes. But you can also define new entities whose technical environment (Data Dictionary, program, maintenance interface and so on) have to be generated again. You carry out the generation in Customizing.

All custom characteristics which are not marked as subassignments, can not be assigned to the characteristic consolidation unit as an attribute. The system automatically assigns the characteristics partner unit and investee to the attribute.

For characteristics which you have defined with reference to entities in another SAP component, the system offers the master data maintenance of the corresponding SAP components.

For characteristics which you have defined with a new check table, the system offers a maintenance transaction which was specially generated for this. In addition to this you can transfer values by means of a flexible upload in the system.