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  1. To append a segment to an existing Cycle, choose Append segment or Edit ® Append segment from the cycle header data.
  2. Enter a segment name and a segment description.

Note

If more than one segment exists in a cycle, choose Previous segment or Next segment to scroll through the existing segments. The system informs you if no other segment exists.

Caution

You can create up to 999 segments in a cycle.

Creating Segment Headers

  1. To define an assessment, enter an assessment cost element (= secondary cost element), or select an allocation structure (see: Assessment).
  1. Specify the sender rules for the allocation in the segment under Sender values .

    2. (see Rules for Periodic Repostings or Periodic Allocations)

  2. Enter the percentage by which the sender value is to be credited.
  3. Specify whether you want to allocate plan values in an actual allocation cycle, or actual values in a plan allocation cycle.

    4. (see Allocating Plan Values in an Actual Allocation Cycle or Allocating Actual Values in a Plan Allocation Cycle).

  4. Specify the receiver rules for the allocation in the segment under Tracing factors.

    5. (see Rules for Periodic Repostings or Periodic Allocations)

  5. If required, enter the desired scaling for the negative tracing factors.

    6. If you have not specified tracing factors as fixed amounts, fixed portions or fixed percentages , negative tracing factors may arise. This would lead to receivers being credited with negative tracing factors or iterations being canceled. There are various methods for scaling any negative tracing factors.

    (see Scaling Negative Tracing Factors)

  6. If you are using the Variable portions receiver rule , you specify the receiver tracing factor.

(see Rules for Periodic Repostings or Periodic Allocations)

Sender/Receiver Relationships

Depending on the settings you made for the sender and receiver types for each allocation type during Customizing, the system offers you different fields for the senders and receivers.

  1. For business processes, for example, the system may offer you the External value added, Internal value added, Type or Allocation type fields.

    2. If you want to use the corresponding allocation characteristics from the master data record of a business process, select the ST indicator for the appropriate field.

    To do this, you need to save the appropriate allocation characteristics in the master record.

  2. If you want to enter a group in the segment definition for a sender or a receiver, you can only create or change this group from the sender definition.

    3. - To do so, position your cursor on the group.

    - Choose Extras ® Create or change group.

    This takes you to the group maintenance for the master data. Choose Back to return to segment definition.

  3. To display information on the senders or receivers for the segment, choose Extras ® Display senders or Display receivers.

The system displays an overview of the header data for your cycle, as well as the senders or receivers.

Note

Receivers of allocations can be:

(see Structure link Account Assignment of Controlling Objects)
  1. To check the cycle you have defined, choose Formal check or Cycle ® Formal check.

The system checks the cycle with the master data.

Note

The formal check is not a complete check. It does not guarantee that you can carry out the cycle without errors. You can only check this if you start the cycle on the Cycle Processing initial screen in the Test run.

The system issues a message after the formal check to inform you whether the check was completed successfully. To view any errors, choose Extras ® Error log.
  1. Within a cycle you can lock a segment for processing by selecting the Lock indicator in the segment's header data.

    2. The system ignores this segment during the processing of the cycle.

    (see Locking Segment Cycles)

  2. Save your entries for the segment.

Note

If you go to the cycle maintenance from the cycle overview display, the system updates the tree structure and the related cycle information in the cycle overview display.

Maintaining Sender Values

Specify the sender values.

The fields offered by the R/3 System for the sender values are based on the sender rules that you entered in the segment header.

Maintaining Receiver Tracing Factors

Specify the receiver tracing factors.

The fields offered by the R/3 System for the tracing factors are based on the receiver rules that you entered in the segment header.

Maintaining Receiver Tracing Factors

Choose Receiver weighting factors to specify receiver-specific weighting factors that the system should include in the allocation.

See also

Functions Within Cycle Definition

Specifying Tracing Factors

Specifying Receiver Weighting Factors

 

 

 

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