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Use

When an enterprise sells a large portion of the asset portfolio (such as a plant or a building), it is necessary to post the retirement of all the individual assets which make up the whole. Since the number of assets involved can be extremely high, the FI-AA component makes it possible to carry out the retirement using mass posting.

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In order to carry out a mass retirement, you need the “normal” authorization for asset transactions, as well as authorization for the authorization object A_PERI_BUK (authorization for periodic processing) with activity 40. This authorization is contained in the standard profile A_ALL.

Process Flow

The selection of the assets involved and the basic procedure for mass retirement is carried out using the same functions as a mass change to asset master data. You use a work list (refer to Mass Changes to Master Data). When you create a worklist for mass retirement, you have to enter the purpose as either “retirement with revenue” or “retirement without revenue (scrapping).” You also have to make these entries needed for posting the mass retirement:

·        Posting date

·        Transaction Type

·        Revenue and type of revenue distribution

The rest of the procedure for mass retirement corresponds to the procedure for a mass change (refer to Mass Changes to Master Data).

Revenue Distribution

The revenue for the assets sold can be distributed to the affected assets in one of the following ways:

·        Proportional to the book value of the affected assets

·        Proportional to the acquisition and production costs of the assets

·        Individually using a customer enhancement project (or manually)

The name of the enhancement project is WFOB0001. For more information, see Revenue Distribution for Mass Retirement.

Manual Distribution of Revenue

In worklists for individual distribution of revenue, you also have the option of entering the revenue individually for each asset while you are processing the worklist (Change revenue distribution). In this case, you do not need customer enhancement project WFOB0001. The revenue determined by the system for each asset is then initially zero. You can manually change this value to the value you want.

You can change a worklist to allow individual distribution of revenue after the worklist has already been created. Choose Edit ® Change header. In addition, you can manually change the total revenue at the same time. When you save the worklist, the system recalculates the revenue for each asset based on the type of revenue distribution.

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It is also possible to carry out mass retirement (like mass changes to master data) using Workflow. Using this method provides you with an opportunity for additional checks by other members of your enterprise. For more information, see Workflow Scenarios in Applications

The workflow scenario “Mass retirement” is active as soon as a user is assigned to the standard activity “Correct worklist” (FI‑AA Customizing under Preparing for Production Startup ® Management of Authorizations). On the other hand, you have to make sure that this activity is not assigned to a user, if you do not want to use workflow and instead plan to use the procedure described above.

 

 

 

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