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 General Ledger Accounting: Preparation for the Migration to the Universal Journal Entry

 

When you migrate General Ledger Accounting to SAP Accounting 2.0 powered by SAP HANA, you need to make changes to your application configuration and also migrate master data and transaction data.

This is required because the application components General Ledger Accounting, Asset Accounting, Material Ledger, and Controlling are combined in a common data structure.

With SAP Simple Finance add-on 2.0, the SAP Reference IMG contains the structure node SAP Simple Finance Add-On for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. This node replaces the node delivered with Release 1.0.

Technical Details

Product Feature Is

Changed

Country Dependency

Valid for all countries

Software Component Version

SAP_FIN 720

Application Component

FI-GL (General Ledger Accounting)

Available As Of

SAP Accounting 2.0 (SP00) powered by SAP HANA

Additional Details

The IMG for the migration to SAP Accounting 2.0 powered by SAP HANA contains all steps necessary for a complete conversion of all data from the application components FI-GL, FI-AA, FI-AP, FI-AR, CO-OM, CO-PA, and CO-PC-ACT (Material Ledger) into the data structure of the universal journal entry.

For the conversion of data in General Ledger Accounting, you need to adjust or supplement Customizing settings and migrate transaction data. The activities for this are located in the SAP Reference IMG in the following nodes:

  • Start of the navigation path SAP Simple Finance Add-On for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA End of the navigation pathStart of the navigation path Preparations and Migration of Customizing End of the navigation pathStart of the navigation path Preparations and Migration of Customizing for the General Ledger End of the navigation path.

  • Start of the navigation path SAP Simple Finance Add-On for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA End of the navigation pathStart of the navigation path Migration End of the navigation path and

    • Migration of Cost Elements and Customizing

    • Technical Check of Transaction Data

    • Migration - Enrichment of Data

    • Migration of Line Items into New Data Structure

    • Migration of Balances

    • Complete Migration

    • Activities After Migration

Before you start with the Customizing activities for General Ledger Accounting, perform the following activities:

  • Check Customizing Settings Prior to Migration

  • Define Message Types for Posting Before and During Migration

In the activity Check Customizing Settings Prior to Migration, check whether your currency settings meet the prerequisites for a migration to SAP Accounting 2.0 powered by SAP HANA and whether the Financial Accounting documents can be converted to the new data structure. Before you install the SAP Simple Finance add-on, you need to perform this check using SAP Note 2129306Information published on SAP site.

In the IMG activity Define Message Types for Posting Before and During Migration, you can configure an error message that the system then issues to users if new postings are made before the migration has been completed. After the SAP Simple Finance add-on has been installed, all posting data must first be migrated before new postings can be made. Posting FI documents before the migration has been completed would lead to inconsistencies in the system. For this reason, when postings are made, the system checks whether the migration has been completed. The message type for postings made before or during the migration is by default "E" - error message in work area FINS_FI_MIG.

The activity Preparations and Migration of Customizing for the General Ledger comprises the following activities:

  • Activate SAP Reference IMG for Financial Accounting (New)

  • Check and Adopt Fiscal Year Variants

  • Migrate General Ledger Customizing

  • Define Settings for Journal Entry Ledger

  • Define Ledger for CO Version

  • Define Document Types for Postings in Controlling

  • Define Document Type Mapping Variants for CO Business Transactions

  • Check and Define Default Values for Postings in Controlling

  • Define Offsetting Account Determination Type

  • Define Source Ledger for Migration of Balances

  • Execute Consistency Check of General Ledger Settings

  • Activate Business Functions

The Migration node of the SAP Reference IMG contains all activities necessary for the migration of data to SAP Accounting 2.0 powered by SAP HANA. You need to have completed all migration steps successfully before you can use SAP Accounting 2.0 powered by SAP HANA productively. For more information about these activities, see the documentation for the individual activities in the system.

Note Note

You can only perform the migration when the authorization object FINS_MIG is assigned to your user.

End of the note.

The Migration node of the SAP Reference IMG contains the following subnodes and activities:

  • Partitioning of Universal Journal Entry Line Items Table. Here, you can partition the new table for the universal journal entry.

  • Regenerate CDS Views and Field Mapping

  • Migration of Cost Elements and Customizing

    • Check Consistency of G/L Accounts and Cost Elements

    • Migrate Secondary Cost Elements to Chart of Accounts

    • Display Status of Migration of Cost Elements

    • Migrate Default Account Assignments

    • Display Status of Migration of Default Account Assignments

    • Display Status of Transfer of Default Account Assignments to Customizing

    • Adopt Authorizations

    • Define Authorizations and Profiles

  • Technical Check of Transaction Data

    • Analyze Transactional Data

    • Display Status of Analysis of Transaction Data

    • Reconcile Transactional Data

    • Display Status of Technical Reconciliation of Transactional Data

  • Migration - Enrichment of Data

    • Enrich Transactional Data

    • Display Status of Enrichment of Transactional Data

    • Check of Migrated Documents

    • Display Status of Check of Migrated Documents

  • Migration of Line Items into New Data Structure

    • Migrate Accounting Documents to Universal Journal Entry Structure

    • Display Status of Document Migration to Universal Journal Entry

    • Check Migration of Accounting Documents to Universal Journal Entry

    • Display Status of Check of Accounting Document Migration

    • Migrate General Ledger Allocations

  • Migration of Balances

    • Migrate Balances

    • Display Status of Migration of Balances

    • Calculate Initial Depreciation Values

    • Check Migration of Balances

    • Monitor Check of Balances

  • Complete Migration

    • Convert Held Documents

    • Reconcile and Compare Migrated Data

    • Set Migration to Completed

  • Activities After Migration

    • Transfer Application Indexes

    • Display Status of Transfer of Application Indexes

    • Fill Due Dates in FI Documents

    • Display Status of Filling in Due Dates into FI Documents

    • Fill the Offsetting Account in FI Documents

    • Display Status of Filling the Offsetting Account in FI Documents

    • Migrate House Banks Accounts

More Information

For more information, see the Migration Guide, section Migration to SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA.