Fund Center & Commitment Item

What is the difference between Funds Center and Commitment Item ?
Thank you
Ravi

HI
<b>Commitment Item:</b>
Commitment items represent the functional grouping of an organization within a financial management area (FM area). Commitment items classify budget transactions and business transactions affecting liquidity into revenue, expenditure, and cash balance items. You can assign budget for particular responsibility areas (funds centers) to the commitment items. Budget is used up as postings commitment items and funds centers with commitment and actual values. Funds reservations and business transactions entered in the feeder systems also affect the budget.
<b>Fund Center</b>
Organizational unit within an FM area which represents the structure of an organization (areas of responsibility, departments, projects) in the form of a hierarchy.You can assign budget to funds centers in Funds Management. Budget is used up as postings are made to funds centers with commitment and actual values. Budget is even consumed in Funds management through a reservation of funds or by business transactions entered in the feeder systems of Funds Management (such as financial accounting, materials management).Funds centers in Funds Management are arranged in hierarchies. You can define only one funds center hierarchy per FM area. There is only one top funds center in a funds center hierarchy. Every other funds center has exactly one superior funds center. A superior funds center is defined in the master record of a funds center.
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We've Activated Funds Management as per the client requirements.
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Details:
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I believe you are using Former Budgeting. Please check below if this is not the cause for your issue:
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SPRO -> Public Sector Management -> Funds Management Government -> Former Budgeting -> Availability Control -> Define Parameters for Availability Control
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2.- Add the Combination funds center/commitment item to the exemption list of AVC.
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When I excute the post closing in the CKMLCP Edit Costing Run, and the system show a error message
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The issue has to do with the integration of Material Ledger with Funds Management.
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Thanx for reply. I activated the trace but only commitment item is deriving .
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Solutions proposed by Alexey are good if FM document was created for the FI documents in question. If, however, no FM document was created, reassignment process won't help. You can try FMN0 transaction after creating a derivation rule in FMDERIVE for these documents, but I cannot confirm that it would be sucessful as FMN0 transaction is not perfect.
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Hi
Please read carefully tye warehouse concept
Excample warehouse concept II
>At PR no FM update
>At PO no FM update
>AT GR no FM update
>AT consumption on Cost center, WBS or Internal order FM is updated and AVC is checked
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F_FICA_FCD Funds Management fund
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In case of Funds Center, within transaction code FMSC (fund center master data) is available the field 'Authorization Group', the same used in the authorization rules.
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2) Authorization objects
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