Activate Commitments Management - SAP Documentation

Activate Commitments Management

You activate commitments management:

For each controlling area from a chosen fiscal year

For orders per order type

For cost centers per cost center type

Note Note

If Commitments Management is activated in the controlling area, then it is automatically activated at the same time for projects.

End of the note.

Activating Commitments Management for Controlling Area

In Customizing under	Choose the following:
Controlling Cost Center Accounting Commitments and Funds Commitments	Activate Commitments Management .
Controlling Internal Orders Commitments and Funds Commitments	Activate Commitments Management .
Project System Costs	Activate Project Management in Controlling Area

Activate Commitments Management and save your entries.

Activating Commitments Management for Order Types

In Customizing, chose Controlling Internal Orders Define Order Types .
Activate Commitments Management and save your entries.

Activate Commitments Management for Cost Center Types (Default Value for Cost Centers)

In Customizing, choose Controlling Cost Center Accounting Master Data Cost Centers Maintain Cost Center Types .
In the cost center category that you want to activate commitments management for, deselect the commitments-lock indicator. Save your entries.
You activated commitments management for the selected cost element. The setting is used as a default value for cost centers that are to be created. You can change the setting if required.

Activating Commitments Management for Cost Centers

Choose Financials Controlling Cost Center Accounting Master data Cost center Individual processing Create/Change.
Choose Master data.
Choose Control
If you require the system to update commitments to the cost center, do not select the Commitments update lock indicator