Cost Accounting Documents (CO) in the DRB (SAP Library

Cost Accounting Documents (CO) in the DRB

Use

The following object type is linked to the DRB and can therefore be displayed including any links:

Object Type with related Field Catalog and Archive Information Structure

Object Type	Archiving Objects	Field Catalog	Information Structure
Cost Accounting Document	CO_ALLO_ST	SAP_COBK_ALLO01	SAP_COBK_ALLO01
	CO_CCTR_EP	SAP_COBK_CCEP01	SAP_COBK_CCEP01
	CO_CCTR_ID	SAP_COBK_CCID01	SAP_COBK_CCID01
	CO_CCTR_PL	SAP_COBK_CCPL01	SAP_COBK_CCPL01
	CO_COSTCTR	SAP_COBK_CCTR01	SAP_COBK_CCTR01
	CO_ITEM	SAP_COBK_ITEM01	SAP_COBK_ITEM01
	CO_KSTRG	SAP_COBK_KSTR01	SAP_COBK_KSTR01
	CO_ORDER	SAP_COBK_COOR01	SAP_COBK_COOR01
	CO_PROCESS	SAP_COBK_PROC01	SAP_COBK_PROC01
	PM_ORDER	SAP_COBK_PMOR01	SAP_COBK_PMOR01
	PP_ORDER	SAP_COBK_PPOR01	SAP_COBK_PPOR01
	PR_ORDER	SAP_COBK_PRORD1	SAP_COBK_PRORD1
	PS_PROJECT	SAP_COBK_PROJ01	SAP_COBK_PROJ01
	RE_BUILDNG	SAP_COBK_REBG01	SAP_COBK_REBG01
	RE_BUSN_EN	SAP_COBK_REBE01	SAP_COBK_REBE01
	RE_MGT_CNT	SAP_COBK_REMC01	SAP_COBK_REMC01
	RE_PROPRTY	SAP_COBK_REPR01	SAP_COBK_REPR01
	RE_RNTL_AG	SAP_COBK_RERA01	SAP_COBK_RERA01
	RE_RNTL_UN	SAP_COBK_RERU01	SAP_COBK_RERU01
	RE_STLM_UN	SAP_COBK_RESU01	SAP_COBK_RESU01
	SD_VBAK	SAP_COBK_VBAK01	SAP_COBK_VBAK01
	COPA2_nnnn*	SAP_COBK_Pannnn*	SAP_COBK_Pannnn*

* where nnnn stands for the operating concern. The archiving object is generated per operating concern.

Prerequisites

To optimize the DRB functions for archived cost accounting documents, you are recommended to proceed as follows:

Determine from the above table which archiving objects you want to use.

From the above table determine the related archive information structures, and activate them.

Construct the archive information structures for the required archive files.

Integration

Handling archived cost accounting documents in the DRB is more involved than accounting documents, for example. The reason for this is the way the document lines are distributed across the archive. Cost accounting documents can be archived using differing archiving objects (such as CO_ITEM, PP_ORDER, CO_COSTCTR, SD_VBAK, ...). An additional complication is that the cost accounting documents are not archived by document number.

Example

For a posting involving a production order and a cost center, you may find that one part of the document is in a PP_ORDER archive, whilst the other part is still in the database.

Consequently it is not possible to determine with certainty which archive a cost accounting document is stored in, nor whether it is in the database or in the archive. You can only determine this for individual document lines (line items).

As the Archive Information System (AS) field catalog depends on the archiving object, several field catalogs (and therefore information structures) may be needed. To access the cost accounting document, field catalogs have been delivered that begin with SAP_COBK_.

Due to the way cost accounting documents are archived, the number of entries in the required information structures roughly equals the number of document lines. Only the number of document lines that are found in those archives for which the corresponding information structure was created are relevant.

Recommendation

You should therefore decide carefully whether you want to view archived cost accounting documents. In addition, you should only include fields REFBT, AWTYP and AWORG in the information structures if you experience runtime problems.

With cost accounting documents (as for other documents too) only the respective source document and other accounting documents are linked. The objects on which the costs are collected are not regarded as being linked to the cost accounting document. If this were not the case, you could find that the number of documents linked to an object would be so huge that it would overwhelm the capacity of the DRB.

Example

You make an FI posting involving a sales order and a cost center. This also leads to the creation of an accounting document and a cost accounting document. In this case the accounting document is the source document. The accounting document is then linked to the cost accounting document. However, there is no link (in the DRB sense) to either the sales order or the cost center.