Opening previous MM period

Hello ,
I would like to know if Previous MM period can be open .
This being a Non production system , there is no material document expected in the open period and I want to post a document which is already closed .
e.g Current open period 2009 / 10 and 2009/ 09 whereas I want to post document for period 2009 / 7 .
Please advise.

Hi,
You can use MMPI to open the Previous periods
OR
Alernatively you can also use the program RMMMINIT in SE38
But SAP does not recommends to open the previous posting periods as it will cause data inconsistency.
Be cautious while doing this.
regards,
santosh

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Open previous Posting Periods

Hi Experts,
When trying to post a good receipts I get the current error:
Posting periods only possible in 12/2011 and 11/2011. I want to post in 12/2209
How do I set the system to post in 12/2009?

Hi
Allowing Posting to the Previous Period
Prerequisites
Posting to the previous period (backposting) is allowed only if the corresponding indicator is set
in the control record. This indicator is set automatically during initialization and after each change
of period. However, it can sometimes be necessary to set it manually.
For One Company Code
1. In the Material Master [Ext.] menu, choose Other Allow posting to previous period.
The initial screen appears.
2. Enter the company code and choose Enter.
3. Set the Allow posting to previous per. indicator.
4. Save your data.
But in your case the current year is 2011 but you wanna to post to 2009.You can allow by allow posting to previous period ( i.e. one period only).
The initialization of the posting period to a previous or to any posting period may lead to the loss of the information of the inventory balances of the previous periods.The book value of the current posting period is taken as the basis also for values of the previous period in this case.
You need to take help of SAP while doing initialization by MMPI and also prog. RMMMINIT but system gives error Follow the instructions in Note 487381 before initialization.
Edited by: sunny on Dec 15, 2009 6:39 AM

Re-open the Previous posting period

hi...
we have closed the posting period for the month of 01-02(april-may) and open the 03-04(june-july)...
but now we want to open the previous posting period i.e. 01-02(april-may) again...so how could we do this..
one solution i have got is that...
1. go to OX18 delete all the assignment for that company code and plant.
2. go to OMSY and change the posting period..
3. go to OX18 and reassign the plant and company code again...
this is the right method to do that..?
will there be any -ive implications if I open the previous period by this procedure..?
or suggest me some other way to do that...
Thanks in advance

Hi
You can open Closed MM periods but be careful because SAP does recommend opening closed MM periods.
Steps are :
1) Tcode MMPI --from Tool Bar select - System - User Profile - Own Data - In parameter Tab Enter "MMPI_READ_NOTE" in parameter Field.
Try to remove assignment of plants from company code.
Now Go to -
T-Code OMSY & Set the required Period.
Re-assign Plants to Company Code & Check whether correct preriod is open thru T-Code - MMRV
Now use T-code - OMWD to Assign Valuation grouping code to Valuation area because the earlier data gets deleted when assignment of Plants was removed.
Use the transaction code OMS2 then select FERT (or any other Material Type used by your company)
Then click on the quantity and value update.
Select your plant or valuation area and put Tick Marks in Value update and Quantity update
Even check this link...Reopening the posting period that was closed
This will definitely reslove your problem.
Thanking you.

Open Previous Period

Dear All
Now My client one company code 0001 period is "092008". but this company want to enter some back entrys like period "012008"
Is it possible to change.. this company have no inventory right now.. process not yet started..
Any option available..
Please tell me the procedure..
Regards
Anand.

hi
It is possible to re-open a previously closed period. However, it is NOT advisable to do so because the valuation data of the previous period could be affected.
In general, it is only safe to reopen a previously closed period when no material postings have been done after the period shifting to the new period.
If there has already been postings after the period shifting to the new period, reverting the period back will cause database inconsistencies in the history tables.
If you decide to proceed with this process, you can use the program RMMMINIT, but, please review the documentation of this program first!! and the check the SAP notes 487381 (for the error message that you are receiving) and the 369637 (for an explanation about the inconsistencies that will be generated.
Steps are as below;
Go to Transaction Code SE38
Enter program name RMMMINIT
Execute or press F8 function button
Enter your company code (From and To)
Enter relevant date: Say 01/03/2008 for Mar. 2008 month to be opened as of now
That means, user can post for the month of Feb 2008 as well as Mar. 2008
Refer SAP Note No. 487381 for more details.
As per SAP Notes 487381 ( If the periods are opened in advance in mmpv to again change it to current period the following process should be follow ), Go to Tcode MMPI, then go to menu bar and select system -> user profile->owndata.In that screen , under the parameters tab enter MMPI_READ_NOTE in Parameter ID field and enter, then under short description you will get Initialise period. Next Save.
Again go to MMPI enter company code, period and year and execute.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Other way of doing it is follow these steps( But try this method in Sand box Only):
1. Go to OX18, and delete the plants assigned to your CO.Cd and save.
2. Go to OMSY and change the posting period to the one u want and save.
3.Go to OX18 and assign the plants you have deleted in step 1.and save.
regards,
indranil

Open Previous period to post GR in MIGO

Hi all,
my current period in sap is 06 / 2010. but i want to post GR (MIGO) in 05/2008.
Is it possible to open 05/2008 period ?
Best Regards
pabi

Hi Pabi,
Read carefully Note 487381 - RMMMINIT: Protection against unintentionial execution and related notes.
Regards,
Eduardo

Open and close period

hi all,
i want the details about opening a period and closing a period, can we post a document which is in previous in previous period...
cheers
Amith

Hi,
No, You can not post a document which is in previous in previous period.You can post document in MM side in Current period and Curent minus one period, if set back posting allowed in MMRV.
In T.code: MMRV and you can see which period is open for ur Co.Codeand back posting is allowed or not.In MMPV close the period last period and automatically system open the new one, Its only control in MM Side.
In FI side , they use t.code: OB52 and open the period in Account Types A, K, D,M, S and specially Account Type u201C+u201D which stands for valid for all accounts type. In FI side you can open period more then two period in OB52 step.
It is possible to re-open a previously closed period. However, it is NOT advisable to do so because the valuation data of the previous period could be affected.For more read the SAP Note:487381 and 369637.
If ur working in SandBoxx u can follow the these steps but not in Production:
1. use t.code OX18, and delete the plants assigned to your CO.Cd and save.
2. use t.code OMSY and change the posting period to the one u want and save.
3.use t.code OX18 and assign the plants you have deleted in step 1.and save.
But after doing all steps, u can see all G/L assign in OBYC, will be deleted, you have assign again in OBYC.
For More Check the link:
http://e-mory.blogspot.com/2007/12/sap-mmpi-open-previous-period.html
Regards,
Biju K

How to open and close period?

Hi all,
How can I open and close Period in MM module?
thanks

Hello,
First of all read SAP Note 487381. T-code MMPI. If you don't have a backup or a request saved on development client with the previous period, you may try to modify the record on the table MARV (don't try yourself - discuss with a specialist who know your SAP system). If there isn't any records it won't be a problem!
Good Luck!

How to open already closed period in MM

Hello GURU
I have heard its porrible to open alrady closed period in MM in MMPI
But I would like to know your opinion and how exactyl this can be done?we are in 04 period now and user wnats to open period 01
thanks in advance
hana

Hello Hana,
It is possible to reopen a previously closed period. However, it isn't
advisable to do because the valuation data of the previous period could
get affected. If you decide to proceed with the process, please review
the documentation of program RMMMINIT (To see this documentation, please
do the following: SE38, RMMMINIT, and select the documentation button
and display).
Take into account the documentation of the program RMMMINIT:
"Caution
Be careful if the period used for initialization precedes the current
period in the control record for the company code since this can result
in an inconsistency between goods movements and material master segments
This is because the stock information in the material master segments is
assigned to the new current period in this case."
Please also review the note 70545 regarding the initialization
process. Although this note is NOT valid for your release, it provides
good information on the use of initialization for correction purposes.
Additionally, please review the note 369637 in this regard as well.
PLEASE FIRST PERFORM THIS IN A TEST/DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM PRIOR TO MOVING
TO PRODUCTION AS YOUR VALUATION DATA FROM PREVIOUS PERIOD WILL BE
AFFECTED. If you are satisfied with the results, then you can move it
to production.
Also see the SAP On-line documentation (http://help.sap.com):
Logistics - General (LO)
-> Logistics Basic Data (LO-MD)
-> Material Master (LO-MD-MM)
-> Period closing
In addition, as you know, please check the following note as well:
487381 - RMMMINIT: Protection against unintentionial execution
I hope this information helps you.
Regards,
Fábio Almeida
MM Consultant

Error in Opening the Posting Period.

Hi All,
The Current period in the system is 10 2009.
The Previous period in the system is 09 2009.
When trying to open the posting period 11 2009 ( through MMPV ), system throws an error saying "The specified year 2009 is not the current calendar year" and then a log is issued.
Can anybody help me in this. Please...
Any help is appreciated.
Edited by: Himanshu Bhusan Sahoo on Apr 12, 2010 11:45 AM

Thanks Everybody for your help. It was resolved.
The Periods in the Fiscal Year Variant (Z1 is my case) were not maintained for the Calendar Year 2009.
Maintenance was done in SPRO in the following path ( Financial Accounting/ Financial Accounting Global Settings/Fiscal Year/ Maintain Fiscal Year Variant (Maintain Shortened Fisc. Year) ).
And after this I could close and open the periods in the system.
Thank you all for the help.

Re-opening of Closed period

Hi,
I have closed current period 02/2011 and previous period 01/2011 in MMPV.
Now I need to re-open the current period 02/2011.
I checked in TCode: MMRV,
It's showing as Current Period : 02/2011
Previous Period: 01/2011.
As in MMPV, if current period is showing as 02/2011,then what could be reason for postings not happening in this period.
Please provide some solution for this.
I do not have access rights to change the period in OMSY and also to OB52.

Hi Arun,
In MMRV, I have already checked the check box for Allow postings for the previous period.With this am able to do postings for the period 01/2011.
But posting is not possible for 02/2011.
In OB52, the period is given as 12/2011 - 01/2011.
Thanks,
Nirmala

To open the closing period...

Hi all,
To reverse the period, is there is any other way other than following methods.
Note that no transaction is done.
1.Reassignment of Plant
2.To run SAP note initialization (MM_PI_Note)
If we remove Plant it makes some problem and for running SAP notes we need Basis and abaper help.
Any other solution is there...
Thnks & Regards
SAP MM User

Hi
It is possible to re-open a previously closed period. However, it is NOT advisable to do so because the valuation data of the previous period could be affected.
In general, it is only safe to reopen a previously closed period when no material postings have been done after the period shifting to the new period.
If there has already been postings after the period shifting to the new period, reverting the period back will cause database inconsistencies in the history tables.
If you decide to proceed with this process, you can use the program RMMMINIT, but, please review the documentation of this program first!! and the check the SAP notes 487381 (for the error message that you are receiving) and the 369637 (for an explanation about the inconsistencies that will be generated.
Regards,
Raman

Open and Close periods/Fiscal years

Dear All
We are in the process of FM-BCS implementation, we observed thre is transaction code (FMOPER) for open the Budget periods. This is working for Budget workbech (FBMM) only. But at the time of Actual Postings even period is not open in FMOPER system is allowing for actual postings.
Kindly suggest where we can control actual postings through period open/cose option in FM-BCS.
Thanks in advance
Rao

Hi Rao,
You need to be aware of all the impact of the use of PBET (Period-Based Encumbrance Tracking) before activating it in transaction OF39. This is not a simple change, it impacts all your integrated postings that come from all other areas (FI, CO, MM, SD) into FM.
You cannot use any FM update date other than the POSTING date when PBET is active.
One common error when you activate PBET is FI_E050 - Posting date/period 00/00/0000 is earlier than existing
date/period 00/00/0000.
If you want updating to take place on the delivery date, you must return profile to Fiscal Year Based (non-PBET) updating.
This step will also eliminate the error FI_E050.
Part of the basic PBET logic, aims at recording a detailed change history of every single document in FM.
For more details on this, please also refer to the program documentation and chapter Public Sector Management -> Funds Management -> Recording Actual and Commitment Data -> Period-Based Encumbrance Tracking.
The standard functionality when PBET is active is to use the system date as the FM posting date. However, you do have 3 options to overwrite this:
Document Creation:
1.- Version Management (PR/PO)
2.- FM updating date is the document posting date.
Document Change:
1.- System use FM_TRANS_DATE date as FM updatign date, if this date is not filled, system use system date as FM updating date.
If customer want to change this logic, the FM updating date is decided by one of the following three steps, in order shown.
- Version Management (PR/PO): Posting date of version
- Transaction FMOD to override the update date by user
- Activate user exit EXIT_SAPLFMFA_004 so that a popup screen is
displayed that permits entering the FM posting date, you could
manually set the date found in the document header to a later date.
- you could manually set the date found in the document header to a
later date (System date SY_DATUM).
PBET is Periodic-based encumbrance tracking and it is a function that monitors encumbrances per period, with a change record issued for each change made within a period. This function belongs to Funds Management Area (PSM-FM).
If PBET is active, system does not allow posting to a date earlier than the present date, you will receive error FI_E050 in case this is not satisfied. Follow are two comments form the code which indicate same:
"No new dates can be earlier than the original or new account assignment line items".
"Ensure that new fm update dates are not older than original date or if a change, this change must be latest date in document"
To use or not to use PBET is customer decision and this impact that the period is verified more strictly than without PBET. Maybe you should consider with your consultant if using PBET is the best solution for your business processes.
Best Regards,
Vanessa.

OPEN\CLOSE POSTING PERIOD

Hi everyone,
I'm working on a system with different company code, each company code has a posting period variant.
My question is:
Is there the possibility (by tcode 'OB52') that more users can, at the same time, open\close posting periods related to them posting period variant?
In practice, my customer asks me:
AT THE SAME TIME: - user x (company X) modifies posting periods of PPV '001' and user y (company Y) modifies posting periods of PPV '002'...
Is it possible???
thank you in advance..

Hi Jason,
Probably I may not recommend this. These are most critical activities. We do not the dependency of the tables. Meaning that the table could be linked to many other tables and fields in database. This may end up in data integrity issues.
These are not the activities that we should do on a daily basis. Normally we open and close the period on a monthly basis and open this screen for few minutes or so. I would suggest first user can go and change and then he come back and the second person may change.
Since this a very critical activity, anything wrong would impact all other modules, as the data is moving from all other modules to FI.
Therefore, I would only recommend one by one to change OB52 OR give the authority to a centralized person in order to open and close the periods.
Regards,
Ravi

Authorization check for Open and Close Periods ( OB52)

Dear Experts,
We have created ZOB52 for Opening and closing periods. This is replica of Tcode: OB52 with some other developments that we required. Here for resticting user I had tried authorization Object: F_BKPF_BUP for particular company code wise posting. This was however not working. Kindly suggest.

Hi,
The last column in OB52 - AuGr (Authorization Group) helps you in restricitng certain users to use a posting period. This field is freely definable.
If only a limited set of users is to be able to post in a particular posting period, proceed as follows:
Add the posting period authorization (authorization object F_BKPF_BUP) to the authorizations of the selected users. Assign an authorization group (e.g. '0001').
In OB52, in the row with the account type '+', enter the period(s) whose use is to be restricted in the first period, those which are available to all users in the second period, and the authorization group (e.g. '0001') in the last column.
For company code wise restrictions, you should have a seperate posting period variant for each company code.
Edited by: Michael Gerard Leo on Jan 12, 2010 2:55 PM
Edited by: Michael Gerard Leo on Jan 12, 2010 3:01 PM

Is there a way we can open/close posting periods on a "per day" basis?

Hi SAP gurus,
Is there a way we can open/close posting periods on a per day basis?
It is not possible in OB52 since it only has control per period and not per day.
Will assign points for suggestions. =) Thanks!

Hii
In standard SAP there is not such functionality where u can do these kind of configuration...it is at least for a month that is through OB52.
If u still wants this functionality it is through the validation.
u need to create the validation for that company code and thn u can use this functionality....
hope it helps u
reward points if helpful
sejal singh

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