Profit Center Assignment on material master

Hi,
We have not assigned profit centers on materials and there are line items that are going to unassigned or dummy
We are into utility industry. We have 3 Profit centers Headquarters, Water Operation and Power Operation.
We have spare parts and other materials which are used for maintaining equipment or service orders in water operation and also power operation.
So to which profit center we need to assign these materials which are procured and used for water operation and power operation.
Just not sure which of the 2 profit centers we need to assign the materials to.
Thanks,
Rajan.

Hi,
In standard you can assign one profit center in material master. But you can maintain different profit centers for same material but maintained in different plant.
In Finished goods case you can set Profit center substitution in 0KEM.
Hope this clarifies your doubt.
Regards,
Sany..

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About profit centers assignment in Material Master

Hi Frnds,
Have a doubt to clarify. As far as assigning the (Cost centers and) Profit Centers in Material Master (MM01/MM02 ) is concerned, when we look at the costing views, there we have an option only to enter a Profit Center and not a Cost Center. Can anyone suggest to me in this regards.
My doubt is: When we purchase a Raw material/ Semi finished (in short any material), it is a cost incurred to produce a Finished product, which means this has to hit some cost center, first.
And above all when a PO etc from MM are made, there the purchasing clerk punches the RELEVANT COST CENTERS, then:
what is the use of defaulting Profit center in the material master,(without actually defaulting both cost and profit centers in costing views of MM).
(ii) when a cost object (profit center) is being defaulted, why not cost center?
Coz, primarily we need to know the cost in purchasing the material, then add up all costs and OH and then arrive at a selling price, thereby arriving at PROFIT which is where profit center is highly useful.
Plz suggest
regards
sandhya

Hi,
To clarify your doubts see my response below:
1) Only Costs can be assigned to Cost Centres. i.e.Balance Sheet items cannot be assigned to Cost Centres.
2) On the other hand Balance Sheet items can be assigned to Profit Centres.
When you purchase a Raw material or Intermediate it is not a Cost at the point of Purchase but it is only a Cost at the time of Consumption, if the same is going to be inventorised. In this case it cannot be assigned to a Cost Centre as the Inventory Account which is a Balance Sheet Account is debited in FI.
Only when the Material is issued to the Production line for manufacture of a Finished product, the Cost centre will be manually assigned. Further, you cannot assign a default Cost Centre to a material , as the material can be issued & consumed by any Cost centre and thus the Cost centre will be assigned at the time of issue.
If you purchase a material and if the same is not going to be inventorised but it is a consumable material, it is assigned to a Cost Centre as the time of purchase and it will be debited to a P&L account in FI. The Cost Centre can be defaulted from the Purchase Requisition or the Purchase Order as the case maybe.
Profit centres are defaulted in the Material master, as we need to generate Profit Centre wise Financial statements and the Inventories need to be posted to Profit Centres to generate Financial statements.
Hope this clarifies your doubts.
Regards,
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Profit center assignment to material

Hi!
I have divided my profit center hierarchy in such a way - that I could easily prepare a COS profit and loss statement using them. Basically I have such profit centers like:
- Profit on sale of Goods
- Profit on sale of Materials
- Profit on sale of Service
- Costs of Production
- Other costs of sales
- Costs of Administration
As you can see I didn't reflect in this hierarchy an organization structure.
I was wondering which profit center could be used for Material master assignment... Maybe you could help me - cause I didn't have much in common with MM before.
I know that for sales order there has to be assigned one of:
- Profit on sale of Goods
- Profit on sale of Materials
- Profit on sale of Service
But I don't know whether it is OK to use them for materials master assignment. Can you suggest me some solution?
Best wishes,
Karol

Hi,
I think you can assign the following:
Costs of Production
Profit on sale of Materials
Hope this helps.
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Profit Center field in Material Master

Hi all
We have 9 plants. In 2 plants we want to do profit center field (MARC-PRCTR) mandatory in material master plant date/stor. 2 view. There is any user exit or setting required?
Please guide
Regards

Hi,
The path told in above reply is correct but making profit centre mandatory for only two plants is not possible.
You can make it mandatory for specified Material Type or you can make it mandatory while doing selected Transaction Like MM01 or MM02 etc
Regards,
Amol

Change the profit center in the material master

dear All,
we need to change the profit center but the system is not letting because the is stock.
i was thinking if we issue this stock on any cost center, change the profit center and then cancel the issuing material document ...
what do you think ,,,, would this effect the accounting badly ?? if so,, please recommend other ways

tej yadav wrote:
Hi, The only solution to change the "PROFIT CENTER" for you will be to maintain message MM335 in OMT4 as a warning, then change the Profit center & again change it to error.
Are you really thinking this is the right approach?
ever thought about how the posting are made in the other modules then? We dont live on an MM island, so a solution has to cover the requirements of the connected modules as well.
if you had received stock to a material with profit center A, then value is posted to profit center A.
if you change the profit center in material master to B while you have stock, the value of earlier receipts will not move from profit center A to B, they stay at A.
The next goods issue for this material is made against the profit center B.
this results in having a postive value at profit center A (which will never go away) and having a negative value at profit center B (because you had never received to profit center B what you just issued)
Because of this you should not change the message settings.
Florian LINTNER wrote:
Hi!
>
> post the goods issue in the prior period.
> Change the profit center.
> And post a new goods entry with the date of today..
>
> regards
> flo
you cannot issue anything in the prior period if everything is already issued in the current period.
One should obtain the quantityof previous period in material master accounting view.
Finally you have to have zero stock in current and previous period before changing profit center.
How you approach this is based on the fact if the current period stock is bigger or smaller than the previous period stock.
if current period stock is bigger, then issue previous period stock with previous peiod date, and issue remaining stock in current period.
if current period stock is smaller than previous period stock, then you have to write on the delta in the current period, and subsequent issue the total stock in the previous period.
seesen_rs wrote:
Your approach is right. when we had this issue we solved through created dummy material and issue it to dummy material, change the profit center and receive it back..
>
> Both options dont affect the accounting.
Goods issue to cost center or goods movement 309 to a dummy material will both affect accounting and create accounting documents.
of course, if everything works well then you will get accounting documents with opposite value after you have changed the profit center and you write on the quantity again.

Restriction of Profit Centre assignment in Material Master

Hi folks!!
We have been using two different profit centres number ranges in material master, one with only numbers and the other one with alphabet sufix.
Now we want to stop material master creator from assigning profit centre with alphabet sufix in material master.
Please help how to do it

You can try using the Badi
BADI_MATERIAL_REF - Addition of customer-defined default data for material
for writting the logic . You can restric both alpha numeric and numeric also here .
-Hari.

Profit Center Maintaining in Material Master

Dear Friends,
One of my client has Posted a material(without maintaining Profit center in Materila master) to wrong profitcenter.
Now he is trying to maintain the correct profit center in Material master record for that material.
But system not allowing this as there is stock for that material in warehouse.
My client Requirement is,
He want to maintain the correct Profit center in Master Data without reversing the whole stock.
Can u pls tel me is it possible or not.
if it possible means kindly explain the steps.
Rgds,
Sankar D

If your client is very much strict enough to change the profit center in Material master only then you also tell him strictly that it is not possible & thats why the system is giving the error message.
Regards,
Indranil

Profit center change is material master issue in EHP7

Hi,
we are facing issue in materail master profit center change .recently upgared with ehp7 after this upgarde its not allowing to change in materail master.
i have alternative solution for this is t code OMT4 i can change message type E to W .
But my old version its allowing even though OMT4 having Message E
Please anybody help on this
Regards
Vinod

Hi Vinod,
Did you find any solution for your issue?
We need to do some mass update of profit center for a big chunk of our materials by this Dec.
Last time we tried changing the profit center we faced error MM326.
Is there an SAP note or some other solution that can be used for this case?
Thanks
Akash

Proper Profit center required for Material Master in Costing1

Dear All
We have 2 Profit center X_Pctr & Y_Pctr, while create a Material code & material code should be valid for X_Pctr, if user give
the Y_pctr the system give the error msg invalid Pctr.
Pls advise any enhancement. Is the BADI_MATERIAL_CHECK correct ?
Regards
Avijit

Profit center is linked to Plant. There can be only one to one relationship between a plant and profit center. So if you want to transact on a material on 2 different profit centers, then you need to two plants and you have create that material in these two plants.

Profit center valuation in material master

Does anyone know the table where the profit center valuation standard is stored. In MBEW I see the legal valuation standard but not the profit center valuation standard.

I can give you some information but not everything. I have gone through the deployment of material ledger using 3 valuations, but not the ones you are using. We used Local, Group and Group at Group. All 3 are at actual costing. What this means is that the local currency is the currency in the country where the plant exists. The group valuation is a straight conversion to US dollars from the local currency based on the currency conversion tables M and P rates. Note that both of these first two currencies can include intercompany profit if reflected on the transferring sales order between companies. The Group at Group is the US dollar conversion without the intercompany profit. We find this works for our business.
The other thing about material ledger is that you need to have a standard cost estimate so that material ledger can keep track of the cos component structure. The way it works is as follows:
Say the standard estimate shows labor=$100, materials=$200 and overhead=$300 for a total cost of $600. All transactions in the month using this material use the $600 standard. Now, when material ledger is run at month end, the PUP (periodc unit price) is calculated and let us assume the PUP values are labor=$150, materials=$250, overhead=$350 for a total PUP of $750. Material ledger already has tables with the details of the standard components against every transaction. Now it will apply the remaining adjustments totalling $150 to the proper cost components for COPA purposes. This is pushed to COPA using transaction KE27. Think of it like this...Actual cost is equal to standard ($600) plus/minus variances ($150).
Therefore, you always should have a standard cost estimate when using material ledger. At least that is my usage and understanding. I hope I provided useful information for you in some way.
David

Can we assign the same profit center to diff costcenter master data

hi all
can we assign the same profit center to diff costcenter master data
what are the impacts in control parameters for actual and plan dat a
Thanks
MvNr

Hello,
There is no need that you should have the profit center and cost center one to one relation.
You can assign number of profit centers to a cost center. Meaning that the same profit center can be used in different cost center master data. Whenever, you make posting to cost center, the same will be flown to profit center.
For example when you post actual line items, it will update GLPCA and GLPCT in profit center accounting.
Regards,
Ravi

Profit center assignment to company codes

Hello,
We have a a scenario wherein our plants are our profit centers.
As these plants belong to a particular company code,the profit centers need to be assigned to only the company to which their plants belong.
Is this a correct statement or will there be any scenario which would require us to assign a profit center to multiple company codes.
Any input is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Vikas

It is my understanding that I can assign my profit center to any company code as long as all those company codes fall under one controlling area.
I am looking for scenarios wherein given the set up we have ( plant as a profit center) if there would be any need to assign a profit center to multiple company codes.
If plant were not set up as profit centers and for example if Product groups(highest node in the product hierarchy) is the basis for defining profit centers then it would be necessary to assign this profit center to all company codes in which the material belonging to that particluar product group exists.
I am looking for scenarios where a plant is a profit center and since material belongs to a plant isnt it enough to assign this profit center to the company code to which this plant belongs to or are there any scenarios within the given setup which would necessiate the assignment of this profit center to multiple company codes.
Any input is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Vikas

Changes to Profit center assigned to cost center

Hi
We have a scnario in which the profit center assigned to the cost center master has to be changed. We have been advised also to change the validity period of the same from the date of change of the profit center .However, the cost center has been used to for some data postings with the old profit center maintained in the cost center master. Now my query is:
1. What is the impact of changing the profit center in cost center master? In our case, some data has been posted to the cost center when the old profit center was maintained.
2. Why should we change the validity period of the cost center after changing the profit center assigned to the cost center?
3. Also, what is the way to transfer the entries which have been posted to the old profit center to the new profit center?
Regards
Sanil Bhandari

hi,
1) The impact of profit center is more in the cost center. when ever we assign profit center to cost center. the cost will be updated automatically. so there is no direct posting in profit center only statstical posting are generated.
2) second one when we want to create profit center first chek it out profit center valid and upto. if same is not maintained in creation of cost center . so u must have to change the validity periods
3) i am not sure this one i thing 7KEH OR 1KEF TC is there any way tommorow i will give the answer this questions.
if my answers are wrong plz correct and replay to my id [email protected]
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Userexit for populate profit center entry without material in T.code CORO.

Hi guru's
we are running T.code. CORO.. we want to populate profit center entry without material. can any one tell me the exact user-exit used for this and . can you tell me the procedure how to find the specific userexit trigger at that point while we are running any T.code.
Thanks in Advance..
GSANA
user exist in PP for transaction code CORO-process order without matl code to populate profit center entry, can u plz find out that & send it to me..

Thank you all for your valuable input.
Srinivasa, your suggestion is very good, especially when calculation of variances/WIP is required. But again as there is no cost relevant material where the WIP/Variances will be settled during settlement process?
1) PP need to create process order without material because changeover cost should not be charged to either material and capacity hours are consumed during changeover. 2) CO need to identify the cost of changeover which should be charged to cost center. So far we have achieved both of these two objectives by the following activities:
Creation of Process Order without material using CORO T.Code say 3 hours of changeover occurred we create order with quantity of 3 Hours. And confirmation of activities quantity 3 using COR6N so cost center is credited by 3 x rate per hour. As there is a separate Process Order type for Changeover we can identify changeover quantity and cost in a given period.
After contributors feedback in this thread I have come to conclusion that I don't need to assign Settlement Profile and PA Structure to Changeover Process Order type. So no need to run Process Order settlement. As there is no specific required for Changeover WIP/Variances as well.

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