Country Installation Program (SAP Library

Country Installation Program

Use

You use this report to set up country-specific organizational units. You must take care when using it, as it is very powerful and overwrites a lot of important data. For this reason, you must use the report in the process described under Setup of Country-Specific Organizational Units. Furthermore:

Do not use the report if you have already changed any Customizing settings in the standard SAP System. It will not function correctly if you have.

Do not attempt to run the report in your production client, as it will overwrite the settings for all the organizational units named 0001, if you have one with that name. Run it only in your production preparation client.

Features

To access the Country Installation Program, in Customizing for Enterprise Structure, choose Country-Specific Settings ® Change Country-Specific Settings ® Country Version.

Selection

On the selection screen, you specify which country template you want to apply to the sample organizational units.

If you want to see what settings a particular country template contains, but without actually making the settings, you can run the report in test mode.

Output

The report applies the country template to the sample organizational units as listed below. The organizational unit most affected by the changes is the company code. The changes made to the other organizational units are largely cosmetic.

Organizational unit	Changes made by system
Company code 0001	Much of the data in the global company code settings is changed. The system inserts a sample company code description, address, and VAT registration number. It also changes the document entry screen variant, field status variant, allocation indicator, chart of accounts, fiscal year variant, language, and currency. In addition, it changes the tax codes for nontaxable transactions. In Customizing for Enterprise Structure under Definition ® Financial Accounting ® Define, Copy, Delete, Check Company Code ® Edit Company Code Data, you can see the sample company code (0001) and the company code templates (AR01, AT01, and so on). You must not attempt to use any of these as operational company codes. Instead, you must always create your own company codes as described above.
Controlling area 0001	Description, allocation indicator, chart of accounts, fiscal year variant, currency, primary and secondary cost elements The report assigns countries that work with the generic chart of accounts (INT) controlling area 0001. Countries that work with their own chart of accounts are assigned their own controlling area (see note below). In the case of Germany, two controlling areas are provided: DE01, for the Joint Standard Accounting System (Gemeinschaftskontenrahmen), and DE02, for the Industry Standard Accounting System (Industriekontenrahmen). Unlike the other organizational units, you do not need to create copies of the controlling areas. Instead, you can work directly with the areas that are supplied. You only need to copy a controlling area if you need more than one of one kind (for example, if you have two companies in France and want them to use separate controlling areas – in this case, you would create a copy of FR01, use the copy for one company, and the original for the other).
Credit control area 0001	Currency
Financial management area 0001	Fiscal year variant, language, currency
Plant 0001	Calendar, address, language
Sales organization 0001	Calendar, currency
Storage location 0001	Description
Purchasing organization 0001	Description
Shipping point 0001	Country, calendar, language
Transportation planning point 0001	Calendar