Consistency Check on Master Data/Settlement Rule 

Use

You can use this report program to conduct consistency checks (master data reconciliations) between sales orders and projects.

The check is between sales documents, billing elements, and billing element settlement rules.

Features

The following checks are possible:

Only one sales document item per sales document type may be assigned to a WBS element.

The system checks the settlement rule per the criteria you enter. You can specify the following criteria:

The system checks that the characteristics in the billing element settlement rule are consistent with other objects.

If you have selected a validation for the report program, this is triggered in the course of the check on a sales document against the relevant billing element.

For more information on the validation, go to the R/3 Library and choose Financial Accounting -> Special Ledger, chapter "Validation and Substitution".

In the selection screen, you specify the type of check to be carried out on the individual objects. The options are:

If an object exists, the system checks the consistency of the fields/characteristics selected from the sales document, billing element, and, if required, the billing element settlement rule.

If no object exists, the system displays an appropriate message. Otherwise, it moves on to the consistency check.

The relevant billing elements are always checked.

The fields/characteristics you have selected, such as business areas or profit centers, are checked in the relevant objects.
In the selection, it does not matter whether all the fields appear in the sales documents and billing elements to be checked, nor need all the characteristics appear in the relevant settlement rules.

See also: Example: Consistency Check and Validation .

Activities

When the consistency check is complete, the system outputs a log which shows, among other things, the errors and inconsistencies found. You access this by choosing Log.

You can branch from the log directly to the object affected, to scrutinize the errors and correct them as necessary.