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Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

FIN_GL_ERR_CORR

Type of Business Function

Enterprise business function

Available As Of

SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0

Technical Usage

Central Applications (of which SAP_APPL is relevant)

Application Component

General Ledger Accounting (New) and Classic General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL)

Required Business Function

Not relevant

You can use this business function to correct FI documents from feeder systems. You can correct individual documents manually, or you can correct mass documents. The data for can come from SAP systems or non-SAP systems. There is a predefined interface that you can use to integrate the systems into the Error Correction System.

Integration

Prerequisites

  • You have installed the following components as of the specified version (or higher):

    Type of Component

    Component

    Only Needed for the Following Functions

    Software component

    SAP_APPL 6.05

    BI Content

    SAP NetWeaver 7.0 BI Content Add-On 5 SP01

Depending on the functions that you want to use, you have set up the General Ledger Accounting (New) (FI-GL (New)) application component or the classic General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) application component.

Features

Posting of FI Documents

This function contains the following options for posting FI documents in the target system:

  • ECS direct input

  • Direct input

  • BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_CREATE

  • The enterprise service AccountingDocumentERPBulkNotification_In

Incorrect postings are handled in different ways. For example, the system creates an ECS item, which it converts into an FI document after you have corrected the document manually.

Mapping data from a feeder system to an SAP target system

You can use this function to map data from feeder systems to the Error Correction System, and continue processing the data in the Error Correction System.

Mass correction

You can use this function to correct FI documents in mass processing, and to correct individual documents manually.

Reversal

You can use this function to reverse incorrect FI documents and to delete the ECS items that were generated.

Document splitting

You can use this function to split documents that have more than 990 line items into multiple documents.

More Information

For a detailed list of the new and changed functions, see the release information FIN_GL_ERR_CORR: Error Correction System (New)

For more information about each function, see SAP Library under   SAP ERP Central Component   Accounting   Financial Accounting   General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (New)   Business Transactions   Post   G/L Account Posting   Error Correction and Suspense Accounting  .