Transfer from Sales and Distribution 

Use

As explained in the section Assigning Sales Orders, the assignment of a sales order to a profit center is passed from the sales order to the delivery note and then on to the billing document. The change in stock if posted to the profit center upon goods issue.

Prerequisites

If account‑based Profitability Analysis (CO‑PA) is active in your system, the G/L account for changes in stock must be defined as a cost element.

If account‑based CO‑PA is not active, you must define this account as a profit and loss account. The system still ensures that the goods issue posting is passed on to the profit center. If you define the account as a cost element, you must specify a true account assignment object in Controlling (such as a cost center or order). In this case, the data is posted to the profit center to which that CO object is assigned.

Features

The following data is transferred from bills and debit and credit memos to Profit Center Accounting.

Revenues

Sales deductions (shipping, discounts etc.)

Accruals (e.g. from rebate agreements)

The profit center is assigned at the item level of the sales order. As a default, the system proposes the profit center of the material in the supplier plant. If you require a different assignment, you have the following choices:

·        You can define your own substitution rules for profit center determination

·        You can enter the profit center manually

If there is a CO account assignment, the profit center is always derived from this object.

The Financial Accounting document and the profit center document are supplied from the original document in SD via the same interface.

See also Example: Transfer from Sales and Distribution .

You can summarize items in Financial Accounting which have the same account number, but this data is not summarized if the profit centers differ. This makes it possible to reconcile the FI document with the profit center document.