Country Installation Program

Caution Caution

Never run the country installation directly in the production system. Use the development and Customizing system and transport (using BC Sets) the changes, as usual, to the quality and production system within your transport landscape.

End of the caution.

Note Note

This program can only be used to apply settings specific mainly to Financial Accounting and Logistics in your system.

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The setup of a country version in a new SAP ERP system can be accelerated with the country installation program. This tool provides an initial setup of some organizational units, such as the company code and the sales organization, for the new country. It applies automatic configuration of selected configuration settings for these organizational units. However, this tool does not perform a complete country setup. After the program has completed its run, additional activities and specific implementation work have to be carried out. For more details about how the program works, see this example.

Features

To access the Country Installation Program, in Customizing for Enterprise Structure, choose Localize Sample Organizational Units.

Selection

On the selection screen, you specify which country template you want to apply to the sample organizational units.

If you want to see what settings a particular country template contains, but without actually making the settings, you can run the report in test mode.

Output

The program applies the country template to the sample organizational units as listed below. The organizational unit most affected by the changes is the company code.

Organizational Unit	Changes Made by Program
Company code 0001	Much of the data in the global company code settings is changed. The program inserts a sample company code description, address, and VAT registration number. It also changes the document entry screen variant, field status variant, allocation indicator, chart of accounts, fiscal year variant, language, and currency. In addition, it changes the tax codes for nontaxable transactions. Caution In Customizing for Enterprise Structure under Definition Financial Accounting Define, Copy, Delete, Check Company Code Edit Company Code Data , you can see the sample company code (0001) and the company code templates (AR01, AT01, and so on). You must not attempt to use any of these as operational company codes. Instead, you must always create your own company codes as described above. End of the caution.
Controlling area 0001	Description, allocation indicator, chart of accounts, fiscal year variant, currency, primary and secondary cost elements For countries that work with the generic chart of accounts (INT), the program assigns 0001 as the controlling area. Countries that work with their own chart of accounts are assigned their own controlling area (see note below). In the case of Germany, two controlling areas are provided: DE01, for the Joint Standard Accounting System (Gemeinschaftskontenrahmen), and DE02, for the Industry Standard Accounting System (Industriekontenrahmen). Note The process for controlling areas differs from that for the other organizational units: You do not need to create copies of the controlling areas. Instead, you can work directly with the areas that are supplied. You only need to copy a controlling area if you need several of one kind (for example, if you have two companies in France and want them to use separate controlling areas – in this case, you would create a copy of FR01, use the copy for one company, and the original for the other). End of the note.
Credit control area 0001	Currency
Financial management area 0001	Fiscal year variant, language, currency
Plant 0001	Calendar, address, language
Sales organization 0001	Calendar, currency
Storage location 0001	Description
Purchasing organization 0001	Description
Shipping point 0001	Country, calendar, language
Transportation planning point 0001	Calendar

More Information

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