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 Generating an Alternative Profit Center Structure

Use

It is necessary to generate an alternative profit center structure view if your Profit Center Accounting is organized in such a way that it does not run along the same lines as the organizational structure. In other words, a profit center or a profit center group appears more than once in the organizational structure.

Example Example

A controlling area contains a number of company codes. Each company code contains a "sales" cost center.

You have structured your Profit Center Accounting according to functions and want to assign the cross-company code "sales" profit center to all "sales" cost centers.

This means that you need to insert the "sales" profit center at various points in the organizational structure.

End of the example.

In the standard hierarchy, each profit center can be assigned to one node only. If a profit center is not explicitly assigned to just one other organizational unit of the same type in the organizational structure, an additional step is required to generate the standard hierarchy from the enterprise organization.

This additional step is the generation of an alternative profit center structure view. In each structure view, you can assign all profit centers or profit center groups explicitly and generate the standard hierarchy from them.

Activities

  • If you want to organize your Profit Center Accounting in such a way that profit centers or profit center groups appear more than once in the organizational structure, define this in Customizing for Profit Center Accounting under Start of the navigation path Enterprise Organization Next navigation step Enter Settings for Enterprise Organization End of the navigation path .

    To generate the alternative profit center structure view, choose .

    Caution Caution

    Once you have generated the alternative profit center structure view, you cannot reverse it. Once you have activated the alternative profit center structure view, the system always calls it up when generating the profit center standard hierarchy.

    The system automatically carries over changes in the enterprise organization to the alternative profit center structure view. If these changes affect the standard hierarchy, it must be regenerated.

    End of the caution.

  • You display and maintain the alternative profit center structure view from the enterprise organization, by choosing Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Change View... End of the navigation path

    When you generate the alternative profit center structure view from the enterprise organization, the only profit centers to be hierarchically structured are those that belong explicitly to just one other organizational unit of the same type in the assignment monitor. Profit centers and profit center groups that do not meet this criterion are offered in a list in the detail area ( Multiply Assigned Objects ). Incorporate these into the alternative profit center structure view using drag and drop. Once all profit centers are explicitly assigned, choose to generate the profit center standard hierarchy,