Business Transaction Group

All business transactions are assigned to a transaction group in availability control.

You can define an action that the system is to execute if a transaction were to use too many assigned funds.

For more information, see Availability Control Actions .

For the following transaction groups, you can define tolerance limits for different actions in each budget profile. To do so, in Customizing:

  • For internal orders, choose Start of the navigation path Controlling Next navigation step Internal Orders Next navigation step Budgeting and Availability Control Next navigation step Define Tolerance Limits for Availability Control Next navigation step . End of the navigation path

  • For projects, choose Project SystemÕ Costs Õ Budget Õ Define Tolerance Limits .

  • All transaction groups

    This general transaction group simplifies entry and is useful if you do not want to define separate tolerance limits for every transaction group.

    If a tolerance limit is defined for all transaction groups , you can still define a limit for one transaction group. This limit takes precedence before the "general" tolerance limit. The tolerance level and action defined for all transaction groups are ignored if additional entries are available for a specified transaction group.

  • Purchase Requisition

  • Purchase order

  • Project Orders

    During planning for a project order, changes to the residual order plan are checked. The system also uses this transaction group to check the assignment and dependency of an order/network that already has assigned values.

Note Note

Postings to project orders are checked in the relevant transaction group, for example a purchase order from a project order is checked in the purchase order transaction group.

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  • Goods withdrawal

  • Financial Accounting document

    For postings in Financial Accounting

  • Controlling Document

    For postings in Cost Accounting.

  • Budgeting

    During the project, it is possible that the budget may be reduced, even though assigned funds already exist in the project. You require this transaction group to enable availability control to take into any account retrospective budget changes.

    If this causes the assigned funds to exceed the tolerance limit of availability control, the system refers you to the error log when you check or save the budget. The log contains warnings or error messages issued by the system when the tolerance level was exceeded.

  • Funds reservation (manual commitment)

  • Fixed prices in project