Profit Center & COGS

Hi,
In the marketing documents the Profit Center & COGS Profit Center are auto populated while selecting the item. The problem is COGS Profit Center is wrong..
I think, The profit center codes are from the UDF's of Business Partner & Item master data.
I am not able to find how this profit centers are auto populated since there is no formatted search linked for these two fields.
The items are set GL account by account groups, the expense/revenue are not the same as the auto populated profit centers.
Am I missing something? Is there any where the Profit center can be linked to the item?
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Mohan

Hi Jim/Eric,
Thanks for your replies..
As for as I am aware, you can setup the Profit Centre to auto populate in 2 ways,
1. Setup the profit centre at G/L account level. Profit Centre linked to the Revenue account of the Item (set at Item Group level in my case)...In the revenue account Change the account type to Sales or Expenditure and click the distribution rule and assign the profit centre.
2. Setup the profit centre as UDF, Using the formatted search query and selecting the auto refresh option populate the UDFu2019s
I have checked these options, in my case revenue account and COGS (set at Item Group level in my case) the distribution rule check box is NOT selected. In AR Invoice a formatted search is NOT linked either..if I press SHIFTF2 or SHIFTCtrl+F2 (a user-defined value is not setup)
Any other suggestions?
Regards,
Mohan

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