Time-Dependency of Enterprise Organizations (SAP Library - Master Data in Cost Center Accounting (CO-OM-CCA))

Time-Dependency of Enterprise Organizations

Use

You can change the enterprise organization per specific date. This enables you to display past, present, and future organizational structures of an enterprise.

Note however that this time-based facility is not used in all SAP application components that are connected to the enterprise organization. In accounting for example, organizational units such as the company code or controlling area are not time-dependent. In the case of cost centers, the period is the only time factor of relevance. For each application, you can enter the time at which the changes to the organizational structure in question are to take effect.

Features

Validity of Organizational Units and Assignments

A key date and preview period is set for processing the enterprise organization.

When you call this up for the first time, the following are standard settings:

Today's date is set as the key date which you can change as required.
A preview period of one year is set, which you can change as required.

The next time that you call this function up, the entries you selected for the key date and the preview period are set.

If you create a new organizational unit in the overview area then:

The validity of the organizational unit starts with the set key date.

You can bring this forward in the detail area.

The assignment in the organizational unit starts with the set key date.

You can end the assignment if it should only have a limited validity.

If you are looking for organizational units in the search area, the system selects all those that are possible, for which the set key date and preview period apply, and displays them in the selection area.
In the structure tree in the overview area objects are indicated with if their validity or assignment does not begin until the preview period. Objects are indicated with if their validity or assignment ends in the preview period.

Note

Assignments usually become valid on the selected key date. Alternatively you can use a dialog box to enter any validity dates required when you assign organizational units (see Activating/Deactivating Timeframe Query).

Transferring Changes in The Enterprise Organization in Organizational Structures

The changes you make to the enterprise organization are immediately transferred to the organizational plan in Human Resources (HR).

For the cost centers or profit center standard hierarchy, you can specify when and how changes in the enterprise organization are to be transferred to the appropriate standard hierarchy. You can also generate additional alternative hierarchies (for planning purposes for example).

For more information, see Customizing for the corresponding application and choose Enterprise Organization ® Generate Standard Hierarchy or Alternative Hierarchy.

In Customizing for Cost Center Accounting or Profit Center Accounting, you can specify a range of fiscal years within which the system ensures that the standard hierarchy is complete. Complete means here that all cost centers or profit centers that are valid for all or part of this period (according to the start or end date) are contained in the standard hierarchy.

For more information, see Customizing for the corresponding application by choosing Enterprise Organization ® Enter Settings for Enterprise Organization.

Note

You can also generate the standard or alternative hierarchy from the application, by choosing Enterprise organization ® Generate.

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

You make changes to your enterprise organization on 12/20/1998.

In the first instance you generated your standard hierarchy on 09/14/1998. It follows that the standard hierarchy contains the previous status of the enterprise organization. To enable these changes to be incorporated in planning, you can generate an alternative hierarchy that contains the latest version of the enterprise organization as of 12/20/1998. At the start of the new fiscal year, you can then replace the standard hierarchy with the more up-to-date alternative hierarchy.

In the second instance you generated your standard hierarchy on 01/01/1999. It follows that the standard hierarchy contains the new status of the enterprise organization. If you need to be able to access the previous version of the standard hierarchy, you can generate an alternative hierarchy containing the old status of the enterprise organization prior to 12/20/1998.