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 Distribution of Funds Management

Use

When Funds Management transaction data is distributed, the following special conditions apply.

Prerequisites

You are familiar with product data replication (PDR). For more information, see Master Data Distribution .

Features

Distribution of Commitment Documents

When earmarked funds are posted in Funds Management, or purchase requisitions and purchase orders are posted in Materials Management, commitment values are generated, which are updated in Funds Management.

You can distribute the posted commitment values from one system (for example, a local system) to another (for example, a central system) using ALE technology (IDoc FMOBL01).

In this process, the generated commitment values, and not the original documents (such as the earmarked funds, purchase orders, or purchase requisitions), are transferred to the partner system.

Distribution of Funds Management Documents

When requests are posted in Funds Management or invoices are posted in Financial Accounting, the actual values are generated or updated in Funds Management.

You can distribute the posted actual values from one system (for example, a local system) to another (for example, a central system) using ALE technology (IDoc FMHHM01).

Unlike commitment documents, the actual documents generated in the original system are transferred to the partner system.

After the documents have been transferred, the referenced documents generated in the other modules (for example, Controlling or Financial Accounting documents) can be displayed.

Only the Financial Accounting documents generated by the request documents, and not the request documents themselves, are transferred.

Distributing Budget Documents

To distribute budget documents from the central system to a remote system using ALE, the following prerequisites must be met:

  • You have defined the following additional fields for funds centers using the SAP enhancement FMMD0009 (transaction CMOD):

    • Local Funds Center

      You can use this indicator to specify that the funds center concerned is intended for use in a remote system.

    • Logical System

      You specify the central system for funds centers that are used in the central system only.

      You specify the relevant decentralized system for funds centers that are to be used in decentralized systems.

  • You have defined a derivation rule for distributing budget documents using the standard transaction FMCUDERIVALE.

    Enter all funds centers that are identified as local as source fields. The target fields are the relevant local funds centers and their logical systems.

The system can use the funds center data that has been enhanced in this way to determine whether a derivation rule exists and to trigger a corresponding distribution for budget documents.