This section describes the settings you need to make to set up ALE distribution for Profit Center Accounting.
These settings encompass two different scenarios - Centralized Profit Center Accounting and Decentralized Profit Center Accounting. For more information on these ALE methods, see the section CA - ALE Business Process Library (CA) under ALE in Profit Center Accounting in the R/3 library.
The centralized method was already supported in Release 3.1G.
The decentralized method is supported in Release 4.5A and higher.
You need to make the basic settings and set up communication under Distribution (ALE) in the Implementation Guide (IMG).
In addition, you need to make the following setting in the IMG for Controlling:
You need to make the following settings in the IMG for Profit Center Accounting:
All the settings for Profit Center Accounting must be the same in all systems.
You can most easily achieve this by making the settings in a central system and then distributing the data to all other systems. You usually populate your local Profit Center Accounting systems with Customizing data using the transport functions.
If you do not make all the settings in one central system, you need to make sure that the settings are the same in all systems.
The distribution model determines the source systems from which the data comes. It is recommended that you define one central system for master and transaction data for each controlling area. You define the distribution model in the central system.
In the central system, you must define outbound partner profiles for each local system for each of the following message types:
| Message type | Description |
|---|---|
| PRCMAS | Profit center |
| COGRP6 | Profit center group |
| COGRP9 | Account group |
For the following message types, the inbound partner profiles need to be defined for each local system:
| Message type | Description |
|---|---|
| PRCFET | Get profit centers |
| PCROLL | Rollup |
In each local system, you must define outbound partner profiles for the central system for each of the following message types:
| Message type | Description |
|---|---|
| PRCFET | Get profit centers |
| PCROLL | Rollup |
For the following message types, you must define inbound partner profiles for the central system:
| Message type | Description |
|---|---|
| PRCMAS | Profit center |
| COGRP6 | Profit center group |
| COGRP9 | Account group |
In the central system, you must define outbound partner profiles for each local system for the following message types:
| Message type | Description | Method |
|---|---|---|
| PRCMAS | Profit center | |
| COGRP6 | Profit center group | |
| COGRP9 | Account group | |
| PRCDOC | Replicate actual line items | SaveReplica |
| PRCDOCP | Replicate plan line items | SaveReplicaPlanData |
| PRCDOCR | Cancel profit center documents | Reverse |
| PRCDOCD | Delete profit center documents | Delete |
For the following message types, you must define inbound partner profiles for each local system:
| Message type | Description | Method |
|---|---|---|
| PRCFET | Get profit centers | |
| PCROLL | Rollup | |
| PRCDOC | Replicate actual line items | SaveReplica |
| PRCDOCP | Replicate plan line items | SaveReplicaPlanData |
| PRCDOCR | Cancel profit center documents | Reverse |
| PRCDOCD | Delete profit center documents | Delete |
For the following message types, you must define outbound partner profiles for the central system in each local system:
| Message type | Description | Method |
|---|---|---|
| PRCFET | Get profit centers | |
| PCROLL | Rollup | |
| PRCDOC | Replicate actual line items | SaveReplica |
| PRCDOCP | Replicate plan line items | SaveReplicaPlanData |
| PRCDOCR | Cancel profit center documents | Reverse |
| PRCDOCD | Delete profit center documents | Delete |
For the following message types, you must define inbound partner profiles for the central system:
| Message type | Description | Method |
|---|---|---|
| PRCMAS | Profit center | |
| COGRP6 | Profit center group | |
| COGRP9 | Account group | |
| PRCDOC | Replicate actual line items | SaveReplica |
| PRCDOCP | Replicate plan line items | SaveReplicaPlanData |
| PRCDOCR | Cancel profit center documents | Reverse |
| PRCDOCD | Delete profit center documents | Delete |
If you have more than one central system, it may be necessary to send the data separately for each company code. In that case you can use the company code as a filter object for message type PCROLL in the distribution model. This allows you to send the data by company code in the centralized scenario. If you use the decentralized scenario, you need to make sure that all the data for the company codes in one controlling area is sent to the logical system of that controlling area.
If you want work items to be created when errors occur for the purpose of error handling, you need to assign the standard task TS40007915 PCROLL to a position or a workflow organizational unit.
For more information, see
Once you have set up distribution for Profit Center Accounting, you can schedule the rollup to the central system in your local systems. With decentralized profit center accounting, you perform the rollup in the corresponding master system. In this way, only summary records for profit centers which are currently contained in the system are sent. Using the standard job definition functions, you can send the IDocs automatically following period-end closing.
The master data required for using Profit Center Accounting in the local systems includes the profit center master records as well as profit center groups and account groups. The master system is solely responsible for maintenance of master data for that controlling area. For more information about distributing master data, see Master Data Distribution.