Period 4 is still closed in Financial Accounting or in Controlling (except for planning processes).

You make the necessary considerations for planning the reorganization, ensure that the prerequisites are met, and make the Customizing settings (see Prerequisites and Customizing Settings for the Reorganization).

Where necessary, you create new profit centers.

(1) The reorganization manager creates a reorganization plan.

You create a new time slot with a changed profit center for the affected cost center (see Reorganization of Cost Centers).

These changes to cost centers need to have been made before the period-end closing activities (see the section "Execution: Part 1" below).

(2) The reorganization manager generates the object lists.

(3) The reorganization manager assigns the objects to the object owners.

(4) The object owners specify which new profit centers need to be assigned to their objects. The applies especially to cost objects because it would otherwise not be possible to determine the profit center for postings to the new period and such postings would be rejected.

Period 4 can be opened. This can also happen before April 1.

The closing activities for period 3 are performed (including determination of the WIP balances, depreciation, settlement, and assessment).

The period-end closing activities must be completed before the reassignment.

In the case of new objects for which postings to the prior period (here: period 3) are still expected, you continue to create such objects with the old profit center.

In the case of new objects for which no postings to the prior period are expected, such objects can be assigned with the new profit center. This applies to objects with a validity date on or after April 1, for example.

(2) You generate the object lists repeatedly so that any new objects to be created are also included in the reorganization.

The system uses the object lists to redirect cost-relevant postings to the new profit centers.

Any balances that arise in period 4 on the "incorrect" profit center (that is, the old profit center) are posted subsequently by the system to the "correct" profit center (that is, the new profit center).

You close period 3 in Financial Accounting as well as in Controlling (for business transactions).

After period 3 has been closed, you should not create any more objects with the old profit center.

(2-4) You generate the object lists for the last time.

The system continues to redirect cost-relevant postings.

(5) The reorganization manager performs the reassignment from within the reorganization plan, applying the assignments made by the object owners.

(6) From within the reorganization plan, the reorganization manager starts the balance transfers for objects that have already been reassigned.

(5+6) If errors occurred, the reorganization manager ensures that the causes of these errors are resolved and performs the reassignment and transfer postings again.

(7) During the reassignment and the transfer postings, the system runs consistency checks and logs the results.

(8) The reorganization manager closes the reorganization plan.

If you want to report in costing-based Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) using the characteristic Profit Center, you need to run the program Subsequent Posting of Reorganization-Relevant Billing Docs to CO-PA (FAGL_R_COPA_CORRECT). During a profit center reorganization, billing documents are not reassigned. In the case of billing documents that you have already transferred to Profitability Analysis with the original profit center, you can use this program to subsequently post such billing documents with the profit centers that are valid after reorganization.

Check the results of the reorganization using the logs and transfer posting documents as well as any summary reports.

All other processes are performed as usual, the only difference being that the new profit center assignments are now applied.

If necessary, you can perform additional reorganizations in the controlling area.