Generating an Alternative Profit Center Structure 

Use

It is necessary to generate an alternative profit center structure view if the organizational structure of your Profit Center Accounting is not identical to that of the organizational structure. If you generate this alternative profit center structure view, profit center and profit center groups can appear more than once in the organizational structure.

A controlling area contains a number of company codes. Each company code contains a "sales" cost center.

You have structured your Profit Center Accounting according to functions and want to assign all "sales" cost centers to the cross-company code "sales" profit center.

This means that the "sales" profit center must be inserted at various points in the organizational structure.

In the standard hierarchy, each profit center can be assigned to one node only. If a profit center is not explicitly assigned to just one other organizational unit of the same type in the organizational structure, an additional step is required in order to generate the standard hierarchy from the enterprise organization.

This additional step is the generation of an alternative profit center structure. In each structure view, you can assign all profit centers and profit center groups explicitly and generate the standard hierarchy from them.

Activities

·        If you want to organize your Profit Center Accounting in such a way that profit centers / profit center groups appear more than once in the organizational structure, define this in Customizing for Profit Center Accounting, under Enterprise Organization ® Enter Settings for Enterprise Organization.

To generate the alternative profit center structure view, choose .

Once you have generated the alternative profit center structure view, you cannot reverse it. Once you have activated the alternative profit center structure view, the system always calls it up when generating the profit center standard hierarchy.

The system automatically carries over changes in the enterprise organization to the alternative profit center structure view. If these changes affect the standard hierarchy, it must be regenerated.

·        You display and edit the alternative profit center structure view from the enterprise organization, by choosing Goto ® Change View...

When you generate the alternative profit center structure view from the enterprise organization, the only profit centers to be hierarchically structured are those which belong explicitly to just one other organizational unit of the same type in the assignment monitor. Profit centers and profit center groups which do not meet this criterion are offered in a list in the detail area (Multiply assigned objects). Enter these in the alternative profit center structure view using drag-and-drop. Once all profit centers are explicitly assigned, choose  to generate the profit center standard hierarchy,