FI-GL (New), Profit Ctr Reorganization and Segment Reports 
Technical Name of Business Function |
FIN_GL_REORG_1 |
Type of Business Function |
Enterprise Business Function |
Available From |
SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 (SAP_APPL 605) |
Technical Usage |
Central Applications (of which SAP_APPL is relevant) |
Application Component |
FI-GL (New) FI-AA Other application components with objects for which you want to change the profit center assignments during the profit center reorganization (see details below) |
Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition |
For segment reporting for fixed assets in new General Ledger Accounting: Business Function Reporting Financials 3 (FIN_REP_SIMPL_3) |
You can use this business function to portray the reassignment of profit centers in new General Ledger Accounting (Profit Center Reorganization).
A change to the profit center structure is generally triggered by a management decision. The profit center reorganization assists you in dividing up, combining, and replacing profit centers. A change to the profit center structure necessitates a change to the assignment of profit centers to objects (such as materials, orders, purchase orders, or sales orders).
This often entails changing thousands of objects and making corresponding adjustment postings. With the profit center reorganization, this business function provides a standard process for this.
You can use this standard process to change the profit center assignment on a key date in the future. Profit center reporting can be performed consistently in new General Ledger Accounting both before as well as after changes to profit center assignments. Objects affected by the reorganization (such as materials and orders) are reassigned and their stocks or balances are transferred in new General Ledger Accounting. All steps are logged and are therefore verifiable.
Furthermore, you can use this business function in Asset Accounting as well as in new General Ledger Accounting to create asset reports at the profit center or segment level.
Integration
You can use the reorganization to change the profit center assignments of objects from different application components (such as FI-AA, CO, or SD). For a detailed list of the objects that can be reorganized, see below.
Prerequisites
For you to be able to use this business function, the following criteria must be met:
You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:
Type of Component
Component
Required for the Following Features Only
Software Component
SAP_APPL 605
Technical Component
NetWeaver Portal 7.02 or
NetWeaver Business Client
Portal Content
If you use the NetWeaver Portal:
Business Package for Reorganization Management 1.50
Work center pool role 1.50 of Business Package for Common Parts
Reorganization
You have set up and activated the application component General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (New).
You have activated this business function FI-GL (New), Profit Ctr Reorganization and Segment Reports (FIN_GL_REORG_1).
In Customizing for the Reorganization, you have activated the reorganization plan type Profit Center.
You need to activate segment reporting for assets separately in Customizing for Asset Accounting.
Segment reporting for fixed assets must be activated and set up before the reorganization of fixed assets is possible.
To be able to use segment reporting for fixed assets in new General Ledger Accounting, you need to have activated the business function Reporting Financials 3 (FIN_REP_SIMPL_3) and the related portal content.
For more information, see Reporting Financials 3.
For the profit center reorganization, you need to perform additional preparatory activities as well as make the necessary Customizing settings.
For information on this, see the release note FIN_GL_REORG_1: Profit Ctr Reorganization and Segment Reports (New).
The reorganization is available as a Web Dynpro application in the portal as well as in the NetWeaver Business Client.
To be able to use the reorganization in the portal, you need to have installed the following business package: Business Package for Reorganization Management 1.50.
For more information on using the reorganization in the portal and in the NetWeaver Business Client, see the release note FIN_GL_REORG_1: Profit Ctr Reorganization and Segment Reports (New).
Features
Reorganization
Roles
The reorganization supports the following users with their tasks:
The Reorganization Manager is responsible for the entire reorganization project. He or she creates the reorganization plan and performs the steps for generating the object lists (that is, determining the objects involved), for reassignment, and for performing transfers on the basis of specifications made by object owners in the system. The reorganization manager ends the reorganization by closing the reorganization plan.
The Object Owner assigns the new profit centers to the objects in his or her area of responsibility. The reorganization manager cannot make any further changes to these assignments during reassignment and transfer postings.
Process Flow
The reorganization manager creates a reorganization plan. This is where the reorganization date is specified. The reorganization date occurs in the future, is the start date of a posting period of the leading ledger, and is also the start date of the reorganization period. The reorganization also contains the controlling area and the assignment of new to old profit centers. In the next step, the reorganization manager starts object list generation from within the reorganization plan. When generating the object list, the system looks for the objects (such as materials or WBS elements) that are affected by the profit center reorganization and to which a new profit center needs to be assigned. These objects are entered in the object lists belonging to the object owners. An object list serves as a worklist for an object owner. Before the reorganization period is opened, the object owners need to store the new profit center assignments in the system.
Once the previous period (including any assessments, settlements, and so on) has been closed, the reorganization manager performs thereassignment from within the reorganization plan. This changes the profit centers stored in the master data of the objects determined in the previous step. The system determines any dependent objects for successfully reassigned objects that have imparted the profit center and reassigns such dependent objects in the same way. This ensures in particular that floating processes (such as the clearing of any open items) are diverted to the new profit centers.
Then, from within the reorganization plan, the reorganization manager starts the balance transfers for objects that have already been reassigned. This enables balances to be displayed consistently for key dates at the profit center level. Transfer postings are made in new General Ledger Accounting. In the case of fixed assets, the system performs an integrated transfer posting (in new General Ledger Accounting as well as in Asset Accounting). The system logs all affected objects, their old and new assignment, and the relevant object owner. It also logs the transferred balances for each object. Separate consolidation transaction types can be used to see the transferred balances in totals reports in new General Ledger Accounting.
For a more detailed introduction, see Profit Center Reorganization.
For more information about the process flow of the reorganization, see Reorganization Process.
Objects that Can Be Organized
The following object types that have profit centers in their master data record are reassigned consistently: Fixed asset, material, purchase order, sales document (such as sales order or contract), cost center, cost object, WBS element, network, network activity, internal order, accrual order, CO production order, product cost collector, QM order, PP production order, service and maintenance order, process order, payable, and receivable.
During the transfer of the balances of the affected objects, the system only transfers balances that can be assigned directly to the affected objects. The following balance sheet items are reorganized:
Fixed assets
Inventory (raw materials, work in process, finished products)
Receivables from goods and services
Payables from goods and services
In the profit and loss (P&L) statement, no transfer postings are made. In the case of cost-relevant transactions, the following applies: Provided that the P&L line items contain a cost object carrying a profit center, the system makes postings to the new profit center in the reorganization period in the P&L statement; in the prior period, the system makes postings to the old profit center.
For more information, see:
Reorganization of Materials and Purchase Orders
Reorganization of WIP and SD Objects
Reorganization of Cost Centers
Reorganization of Fixed Assets
Reorganization of Receivables and Payables
Segment Reporting for Fixed Assets
You can specify the account assignment objects Profit Center and Segment in the master data of the fixed assets. (You use a corresponding program to derive the profit center or segment for fixed assets already present in the system as well).
This enables you to create asset reports at the profit center or segment level.
In Asset Accounting, you can create various reports at the profit center or segment level.
In new General Ledger Accounting, you can create an aggregated report on changes in tangible assets. In the report, the values are cumulated on the basis of the G/L accounts. The report is provided via POWL technology.
For more information, see the application documentation:
For new General Ledger Accounting under
SAP ERP Central Component 
Accounting Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (New) Reporting Financial Statements Segment Reporting for Fixed Assets 
(for the report itself, see Aggregated Report on Changes in Tangible Fixed Assets)For Asset Accounting under
SAP ERP Central Component Accounting Financial Accounting Asset Accounting (FI-AA) Information System Standard Reports Segment Reporting for Fixed Assets (for the reports themselves, see Segment Reports and Profit Center Reports)
More Information
For a detailed list of the new functions delivered with this business function as well as information on the Customizing settings, see the central release note FIN_GL_REORG_1: Profit Ctr Reorganization and Segment Reports (New) as well as the detailed release notes accessible from this central release note.
For detailed documentation on the individual functions of new General Ledger Accounting, see the SAP Library under
SAP ERP Central Component Accounting Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (New) .There is a business function corresponding to this business function in Public Sector Management (PSM), allowing you to reassign account assignments in Funds Management. For more information on this PSM business function, see PSM, Reassignment with New General Ledger Accounting.