Maintaining Business Processes (SAP Library - Activity-Based Costing (CO-OM-ABC))

Maintaining Business Processes

Use

The following functions allow you to create, change, and display business processes.

Features

Changing Business Process Master Data

You may change basic data such as name, description, person responsible, and attributes as often as you wish..

You can change the business process currency and assignment to a node in the standard hierarchy only in certain cases (see Assignment Fields in Business Process Master Data).

Changing the assignment of the standard hierarchy to a group

You assign a business process to a hierarchy area for the entire lifetime of the business process. Therefore, changes to the assignment apply to the entire lifetime of the business process. The R/3 System does not accept the change otherwise. If you have divided the analysis into different periods, and now wish to choose the entire analysis period, then go to the dialogue box Analysis Period: Choose. There you need to either mark the entire Object interval list or simply press Enter.

Evaluations of standard hierarchies through older assignments to groups

You can only use the current assignment to evaluate the standard hierarchy through a group. To compare an evaluation from the current hierarchy with one from a previous hierarchy, save the previous group assignments as alternative hierarchies before changing the master data (that is, copy the original business process group under a new name to an alternative hierarchy).

Example

You want to transfer business process BP10 in the standard hierarchy from group S04 to group S03. If you wish to make evaluations using the old assignment even after changing the master data:

You create an alternative group name, such as S04X , for the original assignment, S04/BP10 .

You change the group assignment in the standard hierarchy by entering group S03 in the master data for business process BP10 .

For evaluations using the old group assignment, you use group S04X ; for evaluations with the current group assignment, you use group S03 in the standard hierarchy.

Assignment to alternative business processes groups

In addition to business process groups, which are subordinate nodes to standard hierarchies, you can also create alternative business process groups that do not belong to standard hierarchies. A business process can only be assigned to one hierarchy group, but to any number of alternative business process groups which can also be used to control the evaluations. The assignment to an alternative group is not done in the master data of the business process, but rather in the maintainance of the business process groups (see: Business Process Groups and Pocessing Master Data Groups).

Activities

You can create and maintain business processes in the following transactions.

in the menu of the Activity-Based Costing, using path: Master Data ® Business Process ® Individual Processing ® Business Process ® Create/Change/Display/Delete.

also see: Field in Business Process Master Record, Assignment Field in the Business Process Master Record

in the IMG for Activity-Based Costing using path: Master Data ® Business Process ® Maintain ® Business Process

also see: Maintain Business Processes

from the menu for Activity-Based Costing, go to the maintainance screen of the standard hierarchy using path: Master Data ® Standard Hierarchy ® Change/Create

also see: Maintain Business Process/Groups in the Hierarchy

in the menu for Activity-Based Costing, go to collective processing using path: Master Data ® Business Process ® Collective Processing ® Business Process ® Create/Change/Display/Delete.

also see: Change the Business Process with Collective Processing.