Definition of Reporting Options (Bibliothèque R/3 - Enterprise Modelling

Definition of Reporting Options

Definition

Reports and evaluations created in R/3 are generally structured by organizational unit.

Use

When you define the organizational structure, you must bear in mind that the different organizational units in R/3 provide very different reporting options.

Reports on these elements	Are based on:
Company codes Companies Subgroups	External reporting requirements (balance sheet, profit and loss statements)
Controlling areas	Cost structure of the enterprise subgroups.
Operating concerns	Results structure of the market segments that are supplied with products or services.

Summarizing information in Logistics and Accounting is based on three information flows:

Accounting (internally)
Information created automatically during business processes can be summarized within accounting.

Clearing open items in accounts receivable can affect the payment history details of certain customers.

Logistics
Within Logistics, information flows deal mainly with data on quantities, volumes or times.

Material withdrawals for a customer order from a storage bin affect the information on the availability of that material.

Cross-application
Value-relevant information from Logistics (material stock, orders, revenue, and so on) must be transferred to the Accounting system, so that you can then extract information of strategic importance – for example, balance sheets or profitability analyses. This is made possible using cross-application information flows. This information flow process is controlled by allocating organizational units in Logistics to organizational units in Accounting.

From the assignment of a plant to a company code, you can find out the G/L accounts within a business unit or legal entity to which material stock changes within the plant are to be posted.

The Logistics data is then linked to the Accounting data.

In profitability analysis, cost information transferred from cost center accounting is merged with information on sales revenues. Using this information you can determine the contribution margin of individual market segments.