Creating a Segment for an Allocation Cycle (SAP Library

Creating a Segment for an Allocation Cycle

Use

To carry out an allocation, you have to define an allocation cycle. Every cycle consists of one or more segments. Within each segment, you define the sender and receiver for the segment, as well as the rules for allocating data.

Prerequisites

You chose Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® Special Purpose Ledger ® Periodic Processing and then selected the allocation type. The system displays the FI-SL: Create <Allocation Type>: Header Data screen.

Procedure

To create a segment, choose Attach segment. The system displays the FI-SL: <Allocation Type> Cycle: Segment screen.

Enter a name and description for the segment.

Set the block indicator if you want the system to temporarily ignore this segment in the allocation cycle.

When processing the allocation cycle, the system ignores this segment.

When you create an actual or plan assessment, the Assessment acct entry field is displayed. Enter the account number that will be used to accumulate data from the original sender account(s).

Choose the tab strip Segment header and enter the required data.

In Sender values, select the appropriate sender rule. You use sender rules to control how sender values are determined. For more information, see Creating Sender Values for a Segment.

To credit the sender a certain percentage rate, enter the proportionate share in % of the sender value.

The entry of a percentage rate greater than 100% is not permitted.

To assess or distribute actual/plan data to the receiver(s), set the appropriate indicator. For more information, see Allocating Plan and Actual Values.

On the Segment header tab page, under Receiver tracing factor, select the required receiver rule. You use receiver rules to control how receiver tracing bases are determined. For more information, see Creating a Receiver Tracing Factor for a Segment

Select the Senders/receivers tab and enter the required data. If you specified:

A fixed value, you only enter a value in the From field
A range of values, you only enter values in the From and To fields
A mixture of fixed values and/or ranges of values, you only enter a value in the Set field

The dimensions that were defined in Customizing for your table are displayed. For more information about how your allocations software is configured, see the steps under Allocation in the FI-SL Implementation Guide (IMG).

Choose the tab strip Sender values and enter the required Selection criteria.

Choose the Receiver tracing factor tab and enter:

Type of variable portions, if you are working with a variable receiver tracing factor.

Scale neg. tracing factors, to control the scaling that is carried out in the event of negative tracing factors for the receivers.
Required selection criteria.

Select the Rec.wght.factors tab and enter a factor to determine the number of decimal places for the weighting factor.

You can use the following additional functions on this screen:

Additional Functions

Choose	Function
Edit ® Copy segment...	Copy an existing segment to the cycle
Edit ® Delete segment	Delete the segment from the cycle
Goto ® Header data	Enter header data for the cycle
Goto ® Overview segments...	View an overview of segments contained in the cycle
Goto ® Cycle run group	Process cycles of an allocation type in parallel
Extras ® History...	View the revision history of the cycle
Extras ® Error log	Display error log
Extras ® Create set	Create a set for the segment
Extras ® Change set	Change a set used in the segment
Extras ® Display senders	Display a list of senders for the segment
Extras ® Display receivers	Display a list of receivers for the segment
Extras ® Change documents	Display change documents
Extras ® Combinations ® Senders	Change the distribution dimension(s) for the senders in the segment
Extras ® Combinations ® Receivers	Change the distribution dimension(s) for the receivers in the segment

To save the data, choose