Activity Groups for AVC

Definition

Activity groups “bundle” different posting transactions and facilitate the assignment of posting-specific tolerance limits. Some classifications of commitment/actual postings in activity groups are, for example, the value type. or the CO business transaction.

Example Example

For example, the values types 54 (invoice) and 57 (payment) of the component Financial Accounting are combined in activity group 40 (actual postings).

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Use

You need activity groups in order to properly set posting-specific tolerance limits in tolerance profiles . You can define one or a number of tolerance limits and the system activities resulting from them per activity group, if the specified tolerance limit is exceeded.

Caution Caution

Activity groups only classify posting transactions for the assignment of specific tolerance limits. But they do not, for instance, determine which value types are updated in an availability control ledger.

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SAP delivers a range of predefined activity groups. You can also define additional user-specific activity groups.

Overview of activity groups delivered by SAP

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All groups

10

Earmarked funds

15

Forecast of revenues

20

Purchase requisition

30

Purchase order

40

Actual posting

60

Controlling posting

70

Trips

80

Payroll

90

Posted budget

95

Preposted budget

Integration

SAP delivers a predefined derivation strategy which is used to assign commitment/actual postings to one of the above activity groups.

You can change this derivation strategy as required, for example, by assigning posting transactions to user-specific activity groups.

Note Note

Note that the activity groups 90 (posted budget) and 95 (preposted budget) for checking budget data are not included in the derivation strategy. Their assignments in the availability control ledger are preset.

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See also:

You can find more information on activity groups and maintaining the derivation strategy in the Customizing of Funds Management under Start of the navigation path Budget Control System BCS Next navigation step Availability Control Next navigation step Activity Groups End of the navigation path

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