On June 35 members of the SAP Controlling Community gathered for a webinar on SAP S/4HANA Finance – From Batch to Real-Time presented by Janet Salmon and Birgit Oettinger, SAP SE.
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On June 35 members of the SAP Controlling Community gathered for a webinar on SAP S/4HANA Finance – From Batch to Real-Time presented by Janet Salmon and Birgit Oettinger, SAP SE.
Over the last seven weeks expert Tom King has shared detailed information on SAP activity types . This blog post provides a recap and link to each post in the series.
Tip 100 from 100 Things You Should Know About Controlling with SAP (2nd Ed) by John Jordan:
You can reference SAP Note 552486 for answers to frequently asked questions about Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC). Process orders provide you with extra functionality, such as phases and process instructions for process industries.
The Online Service System (OSS) contains a database of useful information and advice on fixes for SAP system issues, consulting notes, and frequently asked questions. OSS Note 552486 contains advice on 14 SAP Controlling frequently asked questions. In this tip, we'll discuss how to access OSS Note 552486 adn we'll go over the note's first couple of questions and answers.
Activity type posting with category 5 (Target=actual allocation) works similarly to the category 2 activity type, but does not require an indirect activity allocation cycle in order to post the activity.
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Category 4 activity types do not allow any sort of allocation. They are manually posted like category 1 and category 3 activity types. The activity stays in the cost center. Why have an activity type that cannot allocate costs between cost objects? Isn’t that the main purpose of the activity type?
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The main takeaway from category 2 type activities in previous blogs is that the quantity of activity posted is calculated based on information derived from receiver cost objects.
What if you do know how much activity should be posted, but don’t want to manually determine how to allocate the posting to other cost objects? That is where category 3 (manual entry, indirect allocation) activity types come in.
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In previous blogs, we examined how to automate activity type postings with the indirect activity allocation cycle and category 2 activity types. We posted a statistical key figure to receiver cost centers to calculate the sender activity type quantities. This required some manual postings for the statistical key figure, but the calculation of the activity type quantity and the actual postings were automatic.
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Category 2 activity types are for indirect determination and indirect allocation.