3638627 - Activate Mandatory Profit Center Document Splitting Characteristic after go-live

Before Go-live it is important to set up document splitting characteristics correctly as described in the SAP Help Portal documentation Document Splitting Characteristics

In exceptional circumstances only it may be possible to activate the Mandatory field of the Profit Center Document Splitting characteristic after go-live.

SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition

If you want to activate the Mandatory field of the Profit Center Document Splitting characteristic after go-live, you need to contact your CSM, D-CSM, PDM or Product and Engineering Solution Architect to get support.

Please check carefully if you need profit center-based reporting. This change will increase your data volume.

Before contacting your CSM, D-CSM, PDM or Product and Engineering Solution Architect to get support

the following steps must be taken:

1. Check open line items with "blank" profit center.
   All open line items should have the profit center maintained correctly; therefore, identify any open line items with a blank profit center. You can use the app “Display Line Items in General Ledger” (app ID F2217). Reverse these open line items and repost them with the correct profit center.
   It will not be possible to run follow-on processes on these items after the “Mandatory” flag is set. Therefore, this step is mandatory.
   
   
2. Bring balances to zero before the change.
   You must bring the balances per Fiscal Year, Company Code, Ledger, Profit Center for all local currencies (company code currency, group currency, 3rd local currency if configured) to zero before the change.
   You can use the app "Display G/L Account Balances" (app ID F0707A) to check the balances. It will not be possible to clear these balances after the “Mandatory” flag is set.
   To bring the balances to zero you must perform an offsetting posting in all local currencies (company code currency, group currency, 3rd local currency if configured) for the different combinations of Fiscal Year, Company Code, Ledger, Profit Center.
   
   

After the above steps have been taken and confirmation from your CSM, D-CSM, PDM or Product and Engineering Solution Architect that the change request is accepted, agreement to the following procedure must be confirmed:

a. SAP modifies the settings to <Zero Balance = True> and <Mandatory = True> in the Development system. The corresponding transport request is not yet released.

b. The customer stops all bookings (including operational/ logistic processes) in the production system.

c. The customer re-checks that the prerequisites from steps 1 and 2 are still fulfilled in Production (no open line items with a blank profit center and zero balances per Fiscal Year/ Company Code/ Ledger/ Profit Center in all local currencies). If needed, the customer posts one or more manual documents to bring the balances to zero.

d. Customer transports to P-system: The customer releases the transport request from point a. and imports it into the P-system, on their own responsibility, ensuring that all prerequisites are met at the time of import.

e. The customer resumes the booking processes in the production system.

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