Working with the Order Header as Account Assignment Object 

Use

With the standard settings, the system applies in the settlement rule the order header as the account assignment object for orders.

The system handles all costs for an order centrally and in aggregated form, independently of how the costs are composed at the order operation level. The order header contains all cost information that, as a total, is relevant for the entire order (that is, for all order operations).

Integration

The system can consider the order header as the account assignment object in the postings for Financial Accounting (FI), Controlling (CO), Materials Management (MM), and Sales and Distribution (SD).

Prerequisites

You have made the required settings for the account assignment at the header level in Customizing for Plant Management and Customer Service under Maintenance and Service Processing → Maintenance and Service Orders → Functions and Settings for Order Types→ Settlement Rule: Define Time and Creation of Distribution Rule.

Features

You can enter, plan, and post estimated costs, plan costs, and actual costs at the order header level.

Note that, per order, you can only specify one settlement rule with only one account assignment object (order header or order operation). If you have specified the order header as the account assignment object, the system deactivates all fields and functions that are connected with the order operation as an account assignment.

 

Activities

To use the functions for the order header as account assignment object, go to the SAP Easy Access screen and choose Logistics → Plant Maintenance → Maintenance Processing → Order.

In the case of an account assignment at the order header level, you can use the same functions as those for an account assignment at the operation level. For more information, see Working with Order Operations as Account Assignments.