Re: Cons Unit Hierachy

Dear Team,
I am facing problem while creating Cons Unit Hierarchy. It through the below mention message
Hierarchy R1 has more than one root node
    Message no. UGMD304
Diagnosis
    You defined hierarchy R1 with multiple root nodes. However, the
    hierarchy-defining characteristic only allows one root node per
    hierarchy.
System Response
    Processing terminated
Procedure
    Correct the hierarchy definition.
Can u pls let me now how to overcome from this
Madhu

I'm getting a feeling of deja vu here
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Cons unit change at year end

Hi : )
when performing a cons unit change at the end of the year whereby the old cons group becomes unnecessary as no cons unit is part of it in period 1/2011, do I have to delete the cons group as well from the new hierarchy starting on the 1.01.2011 or do I just delete the cons units out of this old cons group?
Also, as we will have a new cons group and cons unit hierarchy starting from the 1.01.2011 will we not be having a problem displaying period 12/2010 data come January as the hierachy then used in the queries will only have the new structure, i.e. the moved cons units sitting under the new cons group??? Our queries are currently set up to select the hierachy using the default query date...
Your views would be very much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Tanja

Thanks Dan : )
The configuration document that I received mentions to deleting the cons unit in the 1st period following the consolidation group change. So because I am divesting the cons unit in period 12/2010 I interpreted that I can delete the cons unit from the old cons group in period 1/2011 including the old cons group as there are no more cons units within it.
But this will be causing us problems in January for period 12/2010 reporting as the new hierarchy starting on 1/1/2011 that is picked by the queries due to default query date will not be have the old cons group.
So I think by what you said to leave the cons unit and cons group until the year over year reporting is finished will solve our problem.
But here is the example anyway. Maybe there is a different way:
Cons unit A is the only cons unit under Cons Group A and is divested as at 12/2010
Cons unit A is acquired into a new never before existed Cons Group C as at 12/2010
So the currently valid hierachy is valid from 01.01.2010 - 31.12.2010 with Cons unit A now residing in 2 places
In period 1/2011 I deleted Cons unit A under Cons Group A and also deleted cons Group A.
This created a new hierachy that is valid from 01.01.2011- 31.12.9999
So in I am correct in assuming that if our queries use default query date that we will have a problem trying to report on period 12/2010 data in January?
Kind regards,
Tanja

Cons unit may now post in ledger US in FY variant K4

hi,
When i run the cxcd data collection task using the data monitor i get this error message :- Cons unit 66210 may now post in ledger US in FY variant K4.
May i know the reason to this?

Hi Raj,
It's very difficult to find out the source of error only using the error message. In many consolidation error message, it does not provide sufficient information to track down the source of error.
So what you can do is to look around the possible source of error. I guess, you must check the consistency setting for the ledger, roll up method, currency and also fiscal year variant.
Have you also check the opened fiscal year?
regards,

Cons Units with diff LC and GC & Currency Translation.

Hello,
My question is regarding Currency Tanslation;
We have some cons units which has different LC and GC (Ex: EUR and USD). These cons units does not require currency translation in BCS as the group currency value coming from R/3 is already translated. If I do not include these cons units in the task the system is throwing an error in the monitor saying "Currency Trans Task cannnot be executed".
Is there a way I can configure in the method or task to ignore some cons units from Currency translation even though the local currency is different from group currency.
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Hi Anoop
Currency translation occur on LC. Check in the Cons unit master data regarding local currency and check in reported data which values are getting either LC or GC (Ex: EUR and USD)
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Document Type clearing items - "Clearing - Cons Unit" Item

We have the matrix organisational structure - both company and profit centre have the Consolidation Unit role.
We have a "Clearing - Cons Unit" clearing Item for certain document types.
Now the client wants to restrict the clearing item so that it only applies one way, i.e;
1 Company and 2 PCs is ok - therefore post a clearing item
2 Companies and 1PC is not ok - therefore we want an error / no posting to clearing item
There is no option available in the document type to make such a setting.
I tried validations per document, but when clearing is posted to in a manual document, the document is actually split into 2 documents (one per consolidation unit (combination of company/PC)) so the validation will treat both scenarios (1Co/2PCs or 1PC, 2Cos) in the same way
of course, it would be possible to validate in a separate task but we want the validation to take place at the time of entry.
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NB no urgency, no longer required at my client, interesting little challenge though.

Cons Unit name in UCMON different than in UCWB

Dear team,
I've a question concerning master data of cons unit . Following issue appears:
I know that cons unit is time dependent: the old cons unit name was only valid until 31.12.2009. After this date there are several entries with different valid to dates, but medium and also long name never changed afterwards.
Example:
ConsUnit --- Valid from --- Valid to - long name- medium name
3456 --- 01.12.2009 --- 31.12.2009 --- Old LE name long --- Old LE name
3456 --- 01.01.2010 --- 31.03.2010 --- The new name in long --- New name
3456 --- 01.04.2010 --- 30.04.2010 --- The new name in long --- New name
3456 --- 01.05.2010 --- 31.05.2010 --- The new name in long --- New name
3456 --- 01.06.2010 --- 31.12.9999 --- The new name in long --- New name
If I go thru ucwb --> master data --> consolidation units --> 3456, then I see the following entries:
Name
Medium: New name
Long: The new name in long
So I do see the latest valid entries in ucwb and I assumed to see the same in UCMON. But if I open ucmon for instance for period 005/2010 I see that the old name is displayed instead of the new name. Curious is that if I click on "filter unit" in ucmon that I then get the corret name in the filter menu - but only there! Unfortunately, I still get the old name in the monitor even though the filter menu shows the new name.
Do you've any suggestion how I can solve this issue or what might be the reason for the different names in UCMON and UCWB?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Best Regards,
Daniel

This sounds like a minor bug. I suggest you search SAP Notes for solution and if none is found notify SAP via customer message.

Treatment for horizontal transfer of cons unit

Hi All,
Suppose there are two cons groups-'Group A and Group B'- both in the same level in the hierarchy.
Cons Unit 1 is present in Group A.
In 6/2009, Cons unit 1 was moved from Group A to Group B. This is a horizontal move, so in Group B, 6/2009 will be the First consolidation and divested in Group B in 6/2009.
Now in 3/2010, Cons unit 1 is moved back from Group B. This is also a horizontal move, so it will be divested in Group B in 3/2010. But my question is what will be the first consolidation in Group A?
Will it be the old first consolidation date that was present for this unit in Group A historically(12/2007) or should it be changed to 3/2010.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Regards,
Mohan

Dear Mohan,
As per my analysis, In this case we need not to maintain 2007 after the transfer of LE from Group B to A in 2010 - 003.
For our further analysis it would be helpfull, If you can mention why would u need to maintain historical date (2007)in consolidation unit master data rather current date (2010)?
Thanks
Kamal
Edited by: kamal kishore on Mar 17, 2010 6:29 PM

Can Cons Group and Cons Unit hierarchies be used together?

We have Consolidation Group hierarchy defined in our BCS system. However, this hierarchy is not used for Budget data. Would it be possible to create a Consolidation Unit hierarchy in addition to the Consolidation Group hierarchy, to be used for Budget? Consolidation Group hierarchy already consists of Consolidation Units, so I wasn't sure if this was going to be possible.
I am a BW developer and have never done any development in BCS. I am asking this on behalf of a BCS user. I apologize if this question is too simple for this forum, but I would really appreciate it if someone could give me a quick answer to my question.
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Nadia

I agree with Eugene that you can have different hierarchies for different purposes.
However one caution is that if you are using consolidation of investments and/or cons group changes tasks the result will differ between the hierarchies overall unless these tasks are executed separately for each hierarchy.

EC-CS -Error G00022 while integrating Cons Units and Company in CXNT

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The question is related to EC-CS ( Enterprise controlling - Consolidation.)
While integrating the Consolidation units with Company in t code CXNT, the system gives an error message as below:
Default value to char. Partner unit does not exist for value CO from char. Dimension
Message no. G00022
Diagnosis
Default values must be maintained for the characteristic Partner unit. Numerous consolidation functions use this default value.
The characteristic Partner unit is in a compounding relationship with the characteristic Dimension and is dependent on its characteristic value. For the value CO of the independent characteristic Dimension no default value is maintained.
Procedure
Maintain for every value of the independent characteristic Dimension a default value for the characteristic Partner unit.
I don't understand the configuration missing for the above eror. Any help is appreciated.
Njoy
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Consolidation Unit Hierachy deletion

The consolidation unit is time dependant, but has many duplicate hierarchies created unwantedly over a period of time. Hence this creates confusion in parameter selection in reports.
Can the unwanted hierarchies be deleted in development and transported across? Will the deletion of whole hierarchy get sucessfully transported?
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Edited by: BCS_BPC on Mar 3, 2011 6:05 PM

Can the unwanted hierarchies be deleted in development and transported across? Will the deletion of whole hierarchy get sucessfully transported?
- Yes, to both Qs, AFAIK. But, remembering that SAP SEM-BCS has two layers: BCS itself and underlying BW, such excersize is the SAP acrobatics. Without experience it might be very dangerous in sense of damaging data.
Alternatively rather than deleting the hierarchy , can the hierarchy be put in invisible mode which will not trouble the users, which selection.
- No, no invisible mode (in full). One may try achivieng it by different visibility in BCS and BW, but it also requires experience and risky in sense of bringing inconsistency between BCS and BW.

2 cons units - Comp & PC

Hi guys,
I have Company set up as a Consolidation Unit...Also need to set up Profit Center as Consolidation Unit
1) Is this the right method...why if no
2) if yes, then what are the steps to implement it
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raf,
I said that it's completely dependant on your requirements.
In general:
If you have a requirement to have balance sheet for two ConsUntits simultaneously: for companies and profit centers, then, probably, you may go for a matrix consolidation. It will allow you to make consolidation for two dimensions at once, without reconciliation.
But it's difficult to set up, maintain and use.
If you need for PC just a P&L, then you'd better go for PC as a subassignment.
It's also true if you have two teams of people responsible for legal and management consolidation. In this case, for the sake of authorization, you may use two separate data bases, without a matrix.
That's in general.

SEM-BCS: Need to limit execution of Task to Particular Cons. Unit

Hi! All,
I have reclass that is limited to certain company code say 1000 that I define in Method. However, when the same task in Monitor for any other company code say 4312, the system runs the reclass and gives an Error message like Error in Cons Unit Processing - You have set up cross-consolidation unit reclassification. You want to reclassify data from one consolidation unit to another. An error occurred in this process. This error prevents the documents involved from being saved. How can I limit the Reclass task from being performed by 4312The monitor shows this task for all cons. Units...
Thanks for your input.
Regards,
Victor

Hi Victor,
How do you limited a reclass to a particular company code?

SEM-BCS: Cons Group Field Required for Inter-Unit Elimination

Hi!
I need help.
I need to use document type for manual postings that allows me to indicate the cons group field.
I understand the PL10 is cons unit dependent only and not cons group.
I know that PL12 allows cons group posting.
But from what I understand PL12 is not captured in the inter-unit elimation task.
Is there other way?
Appreciate response.

Hi Adam and Eugene,
Thanks for the helpful response.
However I want my manual entries related to inter-unit elimination to reflect in one cons group only, considering that we have different hierarchies in our system.
The manual entries related to I/U elimation is basically an adjustment to the intercompany accounts. The purpose of my manual entries is to minimize the value of the difference of my intercompany accounts.
for example: (before interunit elimination)
Company A has intercompany accounts receivable of 100 USD with trading partner Company B
However, Company B recorded 50 USD intercompany payable with trading partner Company A. Company B has understated figure of 50 USd
To manually adjust in the BCS system, I'll post in Company B debit inventory and credit intercompany payable 50 with trading partner Company A.
Question is I want my adjusting entries to relfect only at the top hierarchy (one cons group) and not at the other cons group
Is there a way?
Please advice.
Thank you so much

Cons profit center

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I assign company and cons profit center to the cons unit characteristic role in the databasis.
And then in the master data of cons profit center, i create hierachy , cons profit center group,cons profit center. But the hierarchy of profit centers doesnt appear in the consolidation monitor. It works for hierarchy of company (it appears in the consolidation monitor). Do i miss something?
Note : I dont want to use the combination of cons unit. I just want to have 2 versions in the same consolidation area. one version for company hierarchy and the other version for profit center hierarchy.
Thanks in advance.

In the usual matrix ConsArea hierarchies are switched by chosing the upper level (icon of hierarchy itself) in the 1st column - right click - Swap Characteristic with ... and select another ConsUnits hierarchy.
But, in my experience without setting of ConsUnits combination the hierarchy of units do not appear in the monitor at all.
You may have as many hierarchies of ConsUnits as you want.
But to have not linked (by setting combinations) hierarchies of units in case of matrix do not have any sense for me at all. You'll not be able to post entries to both units at ones. Moreover, only one units is currency-bearing.
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Thanks again. I did figured it out and i was able to post the retaining earning account. Simultenously I was trying to post a reclassification and i am getting error message GK897 (Auto posting item 0000330000 contains wrong value (cons unit 000000000000003200). Basically in the reclassification rule, i specified the percentage rate in further settings and in trigger i had given the P&L retained earning account, source as RE account and destination as another FS item. The reason behind doing this to take certain percentage of RE account and to reclassify to another account. but im getting this error message, im not sure what i am missing here.
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