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Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

FIN_GL_DISTR_SCEN_1

Type of Business Function

Enterprise business function

Available As Of

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)

Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition

Not relevant

This business function provides you with an ALE distribution scenario for new General Ledger Accounting.

In a system landscape with distributed production systems (such as a central FI system as a receiver system with local Logistics systems as sender systems), you can transfer FI documents individually or grouped together in aggregated form. In the case of aggregated document transfer, the system collects business transactions of the same type, summarizes them in an aggregated document, and transfers this aggregated document to the receiver system. Transferring documents in aggregated form reduces the data volume considerably, thereby improving performance.

The new distribution scenario replaces the previously used distribution scenarios for Financial Accounting.

Integration

You activate the new distribution scenario for a specific company code. Once you have activated the new distribution scenario for a company code and the same receiver system is set up with the old distribution scenario for that company code, only the IDoc of the new distribution scenario is generated. Otherwise, you can continue to use the old distribution scenario as before.

Prerequisites

For you to be able to use the business function, the following criteria must be met:

  • 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 605

  • You have set up the General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (New) application component. In this way, new General Ledger Accounting is active.

  • You have activated this business function FI-GL (New), Transfer of Totals and Single Documents in Distributed Systems (FIN_GL_DISTR_SCEN_1).

For more information on the Customizing settings for the individual functions, see the release note FIN_GL_DISTR_SCEN_1: Transfer of Totals and Single Documents in Distributed Systems (New).

Features

You specify which documents are transferred individually and which are transferred in aggregated form by using the corresponding indicator in the account master record. When this indicator is set, all documents that contain that account are transferred individually. Similarly, all documents containing taxes are transferred individually. Furthermore, you can specify additional criteria for the single document transfer.

With the single document transfer, document splitting information is also transferred to the receiver system.

All documents that have not been transferred individually are collected and can be transferred in an aggregated document. With the aggregated document transfer, as many single documents as possible are summarized in an aggregated document and then transferred as one document.

The single document transfer is performed automatically at the time of posting. You have to start the transfer of aggregated documents explicitly from the menu.

To compare the transferred documents with the transaction figures at the ledger level, you can use the existing reconciliation report Compare Documents / Transaction Figures, which you start in the central system. To check the totals of the transferred documents at the account level in the receiver system and to display any variances, you can use the reconciliation report Compare Documents from Totals Document Transfer.

You can reverse a transfer run for aggregated documents. You can control the reversal with the reconciliation report Compare Documents from Totals Document Transfer.

The new basic type FAGLDT01 belongs to the new distribution scenario. There are the following new message types:

  • FAGLDT01 for single document transfer, and

  • FAGLST01 for aggregated document transfer

There are various Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) available for the new distribution scenario in the sender and receiver systems (such as for appending customer fields to the IDoc). These BAdIs correspond to the customer exits of the old distribution scenarios. We recommend using the BAdIs for the new distribution scenario.

More Information

For more information about each function, see the SAP Library under   SAP ERP Central Component   Accounting   Financial Accounting   General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL) (New)   Tools   Document Transfer Using ALE (FI-GL (New))  .