Comparing Cost Center in ME23N and Goods Receipt document

Question

Hi,
I do not have much functional knowledge in MM and I want to clarify following queries.
I have to build a report that displays the Purchase order value and goods receipt value by cost center ( in the same output screen).
In tcode ME23N of ECC, for any Purchase order item , we can display cost center in Account Assignment tab.( Same appears in table EKKN.)
Also, in the purchase order History tab of ME23N, we can check GR ( Goods redeipt ) and IR ( invoice receipt )documents. ( This GR and IR information is stored in table EKBE.)
My first query is :
if a PO item has cost center 'C1' associated with this ( in account assignment tab of ME23N), can it be possible that goods receipt document for that PO item has different cost center than C1.
i.e. is it mandatory that goods receipt ( GR ) document has the same cost center as that of corresponding purchase order item ?
While posting the goods receipt, is it possible to edit the cost center in GR document so that after posting GR, PO item shows cost center C1 but GR document shows cost center C2 for that PO item.
My second query is :
If above scenario is possible, then there must be a table that holds the cost center infomation for a GR document. I would appreciate if anyone can share the table name.
( like we have EKKN for storing cost center of Purchase order item ).
Thanks,
Tarun Brijwani.
Edited by: Tarun Brijwani on Jul 6, 2011 11:25 PM
Edited by: Tarun Brijwani on Jul 6, 2011 11:27 PM

Answer 1

Dear Tarun,
Below is the answer to your query:-
My first query is :
if a PO item has cost center 'C1' associated with this ( in account assignment tab of ME23N), can it be possible that goods receipt document for that PO item has different cost center than C1.
Not Possible
i.e. is it mandatory that goods receipt ( GR ) document has the same cost center as that of corresponding purchase order item ?
Yes
While posting the goods receipt, is it possible to edit the cost center in GR document so that after posting GR, PO item shows cost center C1 but GR document shows cost center C2 for that PO item.
No
My second query is :
If above scenario is possible, then there must be a table that holds the cost center infomation for a GR document. I would appreciate if anyone can share the table name.
( like we have EKKN for storing cost center of Purchase order item ).
Not possible to have 2 cost center per line item and the cost center per lin item must be same with the cost center when you do MIGO. As a result of that, there is no table where it can store 2 cost center for each line item. Unless you are creating a service PO line item where it required sharing of cost center for the particular services or even asset.
Thank you
Regards
Leonard Tan
Edited by: Leonard Tan on Aug 22, 2011 3:31 AM