Assigning Company Codes (Collective Processing) 

Use

Collective processing allows you to change the company code assignments for a large quantity of profit centers, without having to change the master data individually for each profit center.

If you do not change the company code assignments in either individual processing or collective processing, a profit center is assigned to all company codes in the controlling area.

With Consolidation (EC-CS), it might be necessary to enter certain company codes. If the profit center is not assigned to a company code, the system displays an error message whenever a posting is made to that profit center.

Note that you can only assign joint venture data to the profit center for the selected company codes.

For specific information about collective processing of other master data, see Displaying/Changing Master Data (Collective Processing).

Procedure

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       1.      In the application menu, choose Master data ® Profit center ® Collective processing ® Company code assignment.

The system displays the profit center standard hierarchy. A column is inserted for each company code selected, indicating for each profit center whether or not it is assigned to the company code in question. Note than you can select no more than 20 company codes at a time. To process any further company codes, repeat the transaction.

Rather than displaying the standard hierarchy, you can display selected profit center groups instead. You can also restrict the display to selected company codes.

       2.      If there are certain company codes which you do not want to be affected by the changes you make, select the corresponding company code ID in the column header. To reverse this step, just select the company code ID again.

If you would not like any company codes to be affected by the changes you make, choose Edit ® Deselect all. If you would like all company codes to be affected by the changes you make, choose Edit ® Select all.

 means that the company code cannot be edited.

 means that the company code can be edited.

       3.      Make the required changes.

To assign individual company codes to individual profit centers, select the corresponding field by selecting it. To reverse this step, just select the field again.

To select a profit center row, choose the  icon in front of the corresponding profit center ID.

To select more than one profit center, keep the Ctrl key pressed down on your keyboard.

To select an interval of profit centers, keep the Ctrl key and Ý pressed down on your keyboard.

To select or deselect the assignment of a profit center to all company codes being edited (), select the row to which the profit center belongs and choose  or .

To display the master data for the individual profit centers, double-click  or choose .

If you want to reverse the changes you have made, choose . All company code assignments will then return to how they were the last time they were saved.

       4.      Check the company code assignments you have made. To do this, choose .

A company code assignment cannot be undone if:

the profit center has cost centers assigned to it which are contained in the company code in question

the profit center has materials assigned to it which are contained in the company code in question

       5.      Save your changes.

If you have not already checked your company code changes, the system will do this for you automatically when you save.