Closing Cockpit

Use

The Closing Cockpit enables you to create a structured interface for executing transactions and programs that form part of complex processes, such as closing processes. The structural layout supports processes within an organizational structure, such as within the company code, as well as scenarios affecting multiple organizational structures.

The Closing Cockpit can be used as a tool in the following cases, in particular if:

  • Activities recur periodically.

  • More than one person responsible is involved.

  • The activities are performed within a process that has a fixed chronological sequence or is determined by dependencies.

  • The activities need to be supported by a shared, uniform interface for all involved.

  • The status of all periodic activities needs to be documented and made transparent and available for all involved.

The Closing Cockpit enables you to optimize your process flows by using its event-driven organization of activities, its overview and monitoring options, as well as its analysis tools, all of which cover the entire process.

Integration

You can easily accomplish all closing tasks within a single ERP system.

If you nevertheless want to run the tasks of Closing Cockpit in multiple systems, you also can connect the SAP Central Process Scheduling application by Redwood to the Closing Cockpit application. This enables you to centrally execute and control the closing process in a distributed system landscape. Closing Cockpit contains the connectivity options required for this.

Note Note

This is an additional function that is only available when you have implemented SAP Central Process Scheduling (CPS). SAP CPS is not a part of SAP ERP. However, Closing Cockpit provides a connection to SAP CPS.

For more information about the use, availability, and features of SAP Central Process Scheduling, go to SAP Service Marketplace and see the Master Guide for SAP enhancement package 3 for SAP ERP 6.0, or go to the Internet address service.sap.com/process-scheduling.

End of the note.

Processing of task lists in Closing Cockpit is not only available in ABAP environments, but also as a Web application in SAP NetWeaver Portal or SAP NetWeaver Business Client. For more information about the Web application of Closing Cockpit, see the documentation for the Business Package for Closing Cockpit 1.51.

Prerequisites

Features

To support the closing process, the Closing Cockpit offers the following structural objects:

  • Hierarchies for displaying the organizational objects involved in the closing process

  • A task list template based on the organizational structure

  • A detail view of the characteristic values of the individual hierarchy levels used in the task list template

  • Task lists that are derived from the task list template

  • A list display in which all tasks to be managed or executed from the respective task list are made available for processing or for monitoring task progress

    A monitor that shows a graphical representation of the critical paths as well as the processing periods and processing sequence with their respective dependencies This function is also available in a Gantt diagram in the Web application.

  • Detailed information for analyzing the technical settings of tasks as well as background programs (spool, job log information)

  • Dependencies for displaying the conditions representing a prerequisite for processing the individual tasks

  • Connection options to SAP Central Process Scheduling, provided this has been implemented. See the note in the Integration section.

Alternatively, you can launch Closing Cockpit within a Web application. You can perform the following activities in the ABAP environment or in the Web application:

  • You can use the transaction Closing Cockpit (Manage Templates and Task Lists) (CLOCOC) to create the task list templates and task lists, and to release the task lists. Alternatively, you can use transaction CLOCOT for editing and releasing task lists.

  • You can use either the classic Closing Cockpit transaction (CLOCO) or the Closing Cockpit Web application to edit and execute the task lists.

More Information

For more information about configuring the Closing Cockpit, see the lower-level documentation structure on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com -> ERP Central Component Enhancement Package 5 -> SAP ERP Central Component -> Accounting -> Financial Accounting -> General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (New) -> Periodic Processing -> Closing Operations -> Closing Cockpit.