Preparation for Consolidation
Use
When cross-company deliveries and services occur within a corporate group, internal business volume and intercompany profits arise. These are eliminated in SAP Consolidation in order to allow a cross-company display of results to profit centers.
For these eliminations, you need the partner information at the profit center level. In Customizing for Profit Center Accounting, you have two ways of ensuring that the system finds the right partner profit centers during cross-company-code processes:
If the affected companies are stored in distributed SAP systems, the system can only determine the partner profit centers using derivation.
If the affected companies are stored in a central SAP system, the system can determine the partner profit centers using derivation or by reading them. When reading the profit centers, the system accesses the origin documents and therefore supplies the exact partner information. However, this method can have a negative effect on performance. For information on how this program functions, see
Reading from Partner Profit Centers: Systematics.You can use both procedures at the same time. To start with, the system will try to determine the partner profit center using the read program. If it cannot find a partner profit center in this way, it will find one using the derivation rules.
Using the partner profit center, the system also finds the partner company and the customer or supplier master record and updates this in Profit center Accounting. This makes this information available for profit center consolidation.
Prerequisites
You are using the SAP components Sales and Distribution (SD) and Materials Management (MM).
If you are not using these modules, you have to transfer the partner profit centers from your systems to Financial Accounting in R/3.
Activities
If you want to use SAP Consolidation, make the settings for finding partner information in Customizing for Profit Center Accounting, under Preparations for Consolidation.
The settings must have been made when the relevant postings are made. The partner information cannot be found retrospectively.
For more information about the settings that you have to make, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Profit Center Accounting, under:
Derive Partner Profit Centers in Purchasing Derive Partner Profit Centers in Sales Identify Associated Companies for Reading