Commitment item differ

When executing transfer Plan from CO, and found the commitment item differ with the GL Account. Later this could cause problem when you’re using budget in FM modules. Budget will the transferred to commitment item from CO to FM module. But later, system will check the GL budget in transaction. So you get error message budget exceeded.

To solve this, check the FRC1, Allocation of Cost Element to FM Account Assignment. The commitment item in transaction FM9C are fetched from this data. Make the necessary change

Configure PO Release Strategy

Haven’t done this yet, just save the link just in case I need it later

http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=575751

Budget check when creates reservation, is it possible?

according to references I read on SAP forum and notes. It’s possible only if you’re using release ECC 6 or newer version. There’s a business function that has to be activated, find it here http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/f5/e68093501d495fbf4b48ee977cb6ba/content.htm.

As for the notes, I refer to these:

1. Note 1321375 – Materials Reservation MM and Funds Management
2. Note 1278967 – Material Reservations Generated from MRP or a PM order

Unfortunately, my company still using release 4.6C, I couldn’t tell whether it really succeeded or not

 

PS Report: The object selection does not work as expected, dynamic selection problem

When you happen to use dynamic selection when executing PS standard reports, and resulting with following symptoms:

1. The object selection does not work as expected
2. Too many/not enough objects are selected.
3. The system display objects on the list screen which should not be displayed according to the chosen selection conditions or filters.

It’s probably because the dynamic selection has not been activated yet.  It’s on the database profile, via OPTX, select the database profile you use, then tick the dynamic selection.

 

Or for full explanation perhaps you can find these notes useful:

Note 423830 – Database profile of logical database PSJ

Note 107605 – Selection in the Project Information System

Reposting between profit center

When dealing with the term “reposting”, the first thing that pop up in my mind is tcode KB11N. I recently deals with a case that required reposting transaction between profit centers, and just found out that in KB11N, I couldn’t find a column for profit center, neither in the sender part or the receiver part.

Hmm,,,,where could it be. It turns out that SAP provides quite different method for profit center reposting, using tcode 9KE0. Here is the screen capture. Put negative value for the profit center sender, and positive for the receiver. And make sure that the interval number for the document has been defined.

9KE0 - Reposting for Profit Center

2010 in review

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How to release WBS without releasing the activities under the WBS March 2010
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SAP PR number is missing

Case:

Found an activity service, status: REL (release), Reservation Relevance/Generation of Purchase Requisition: From Release, BUT the PR number is empty.

Generally, when you set Reservation Relevance/Generation of Purchase Requisition: From Release, it means that the activity will generate PR number when it’s being released. But in this case, there is no PR number, why?

Answer:

Apparently, when you release an activity service, and then change the WBS assignment of that activity, the PR number is missing in the CJ20N. Yes, it can no longer be seen in CJ20N. How to see the PR number for the activity service? We can use the ME5J report, enter the network and activity there, then we get the PR number.

I don’t know if there’s a way to prevent the PR number disappear. I haven’t really explore that much. Well, maybe because the ME5J report kinda solve my problem

PO Header Condition

Well, here’s the case:

I wanted to recreate PO in DEV, that is similar that PO in PROD. The thing is, I just can’t find the exact PO header conditions like the one in PROD. So I compare the customizing between DEV and PROD. Check the settings in m/08, everything is in the same condition. After some discussions with a friend, we found out that:

- The displayed option of PO header conditions is different for local and international vendor.

But I haven’t found where to set different PO header condition for different type of vendor, hmm….

*update on dec 2010:

The condition appears based on schema group vendor in vendor master data (MK03)

Display MK03

How to release WBS without releasing the activities under the WBS

When we create a project, define the structures, the final result is we have a combination of WBS, network, and activity structure. If in the future there’s a requirement to RELEASE a specific WBS, only the WBS, without releasing all the activity below the WBS. It is impossible to release it from the Project Builder (Cj20N), because through Project Builder the RELEASE proses is inherited to the activities which is assigned to the corresponding WBS Element. WBS Element with all the activities will be RELEASED.

So, we should user other approach to this case. We can access the WBS from t-code CJ02. Just type the tcode, input the WBS Element, and then from the top menu, select Edit -> Status -> Release. So that you sure that it’s only the WBS Element that’s being released. Check it from the Project Builder (CJ20N) you see that the activity status is remain the same. Only the WBS is being released.

Create Automatic Substitution in Project System

We use substitution to substitute certain attributes with a value. In my case I wanted to set the planning element as mandatory. There’s nowhere in the project profile customizing the setting could be made. So I use the automatic substitution instead. Using substitution, we can also set conditions where substitution will be run under.

Step to create substitution:

1. Path: Project System –> Structures –> Operative Structures –> WBS –> Maintain Substitutions  (OPSN)
2. If there’s any condition we would like to check, then put it in the Pre-requisit
3. The substitution is defined in the Substitution
4. Then finally if we want the system to run the substitution automatically, we should link this validation into each project profile in OPSA.

FYI, in 4.6C there’s only one substitution rule that can be run automatically. For in OPSA there’s only a single value of substitution rule that can be assigned.