Purpose

Integration between the Project System (PS) and Funds Management (FM) components enables you to monitor budget-relevant network processes.

If you are using integration between the Materials Management (MM) component and FM, this is particularly relevant to external procurement transactions and withdrawals from your own warehouse.

If you are using integration between Controlling (CO) and FM and FM-CO posting integration is active, CO transaction completion confirmation and settlement transactions also have an effect on FM.

The link between the network process and FM is established by entering an FM account assignment when you create a network. This means that the system automatically takes this account assignment from the network during subsequent processes triggered automatically by the network, such as purchase requisitions.

The assignment of the FM account assignment is entered on header level for header-assigned networks and is therefore valid for all network transactions; you have to maintain the assignment of each transaction for activity assigned networks.

You have to enter the FM account assignment manually. However, if you have maintained the relevant assignments of FM account assignment elements to Controlling objects in one of the derivation steps of your derivation strategy, the system can derive the FM account assignment from the network account assignment data, for example, from the WBS element to which the network is assigned. The FM account assignment determined with the derivation strategy then appears as a default value that cannot be overwritten.

Prerequisites

The fields for the FM account assignment elements only accept input in the network/network activity, if their field status is set as optional or required entry. You make the necessary settings in Customizing for Funds Management Government by choosing  Actual/commitments update / Integration Integration Maintain field status for assigning FM account assignments.

To allow the FM account assignment to be derived automatically in the follow-on documents in the network, you must copy to your derivation strategy the Network header assignment (Table FMZUOB) derivation step, which is provided by SAP. You make this settings in the Customizing of Funds Management Government by choosing  Master Data Assignments to Account Assignments from Other Components Choose Derivation Rules .

For further information, see the documentation for the Choose Derivation Rules IMG activity.

If you want to derive FM account assignment elements from Controlling objects, you must have defined a rule in your derivation strategy, in which the funds center and fund are assigned to the Controlling objects.

For more information on this topic, see Deriving FM Account Assignment Elements from CO Account Assignments .

SAP recommends that you derive commitment items from the G/L account or the cost element. You must also have defined an appropriate step in your derivation strategy for this derivation.

For more information on the derivation of commitment items from the G/L account, see Deriving Commitment Items from G/L Account .

If you want to integrate the order completion confirmation (activity allocation) and settlement transactions with FM, you must activate them in the Funds Management Government IMG by choosing  Actuals and Commitments Update Integration Integration with Cost and Project Controlling Choose Business Transactions for Integration .

Process Flow

With settlement, the system uses the FM account assignment from the network for the credit posting.