Transport Settings for Activity-Based Costing (SAP Library

Transport Settings for Activity-Based Costing

In this IMG activity you transport the system settings for Activity-Based Costing (CO-ABC) to a target system. The transport objects are dependent on the area and are divided into organization, master data, planning, template and actual postings.

The SAP System places the selected objects in a correction request. Using the transport functions you then move the data to the target system.

The following settings can be transported.

Organization

Controlling area settings

Versions

Master data

Business processes

Business process standard hierarchy

Business process characteristics

Business process groups

Time-based fields

Long text (SAPScript)

Statistical key figures

Statistical key figure (master data)

Statistical key figure groups

Planning

Planner profiles

Distribution keys

Planning layout

Transfer statistical key figures in plan from LIS to Business processes

Transfer statistical key figures in plan from LIS to Cost objects

Plan allocation cycles (with or without the groups used)

Cycles/Periodic reposting

Cycles/Distribution process

Cycles/Assessment process

Cycles/Indirect activity allocation process

Templates

Functions/Parameters of all environments

Templates and/or function trees per environment

Functions and parameters are transported for all environments if the corresponding flag is set.

You can specify whether templates and/or function trees should be transported for each environment.

Actual postings

Transfer statistical key figure in actual from LIS to bus. process

Transfer statistical key figure in actual from LIS to cost object

Actual allocation cycles (with or without the groups used)

Cycles/Periodic reposting

Cycles/Distributoin process

Cycles/Assessment process

Cycles/Indirect activity allocation process

Specific to CO-ABC are the system settings for:

controlling area

master data

cycles in plan and actual (except periodic reposting)

transfer of statistical key figures in plan and actual

templates (system settings for cost center templates can be edited in Transfer template settings.

All other CO-ABC system settings can be transported with the steps given in the section "Transport system settings".

Note

Generate Template

Templates must be generated after a transport before you can work with them.

Automatic Generation: The SAP System generates the template coding automatically when you use a template for the first time after the transport in an allocation. The disadvantage of this is that the template allocation requires more time.

Manual Generation: SAP recommends that you generate templates manually. This is more time efficient than the automatic generation during the template allocation. For more information, see the Application help for Activity-Based Costing using path Template -> Edit Template -> More ways to edit templates .

Recommendation

Transport the following objects together to avoid inconsistencies in the target system:

Business process standard hierarchy and master data

Activities

1. Determine what data you wish to transport.

2. Choose the corresponding controlling area.

3. Choose the data that corresponds to the order for each tab index.

a) Set the flag for the data that should be used.

b) Select the data with function "Include in request" for the correction request, or use function "Remove from request" to remove data from the correction request.

You can only remove data from the correction request if it has not yet been released to a transport request.

4. Process the next tab index.

Further notes

For more information on the processing change requests, see the SAP Library under BC - Basis Components -> Change and Transport System (BC-CTS) -> Change and Transport System - Overview -> Transactions and Tools in the CTS -> Change and Transport Organizer -> Workbench Organizer as well as -> Transport Organizer.