SEM BCS - Consolidation Chart of Accounts

Hi all,
For the SEM-BCS implementation I am using ECC as the operational system. ECC folks are in the process of building a group chart of account in FI.
Can you suggests the work around to map group chart of account to consolidation chart of account in SEM-BCS?
Thanks in advance
RJ

I am not sure if anybody has replied you.
In SEM 4.0, You need to download the chart from R3 and then upload as hierrachy in the UCWB workbench.
In SEM.6.0, You have master data load direct from R3 and you can do the same.
Functional advice:-
Normally R3 creates operational chart of account in R3. Each account has a group account feild, if populated the mapping of operational chart to group is amintained in R3 itself.
You can upload the GL master with group chart account number and then this will obviously have the mapping for your use in BCS.
Consolidation chart of account in R3 (if its the accepted group chart) will be the same group chart which your ECC guys are preparing.
Are they using ECCS in R3??
Rgds
Samir Neji

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Dear Tulip,
breakdown category defined what kind of subitems do you want to use for the FS items (=Accounts in EC-CS). Subitems help to reduce the number of FS items and provides additional information.
All customer I know uses breakdowns for FS Items.
Please see help.sap.com , there is a definition with examples.
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Has anyone compared the features/functionalities of SAP BPC Consolidation with SEM-BCS consolidation? What are the advantages of BPC Consolidation over SEM-BCS, and vice-versa? For a brand new implementation, what is the preferred tool?
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Hi Sujoy,
In general if you are starting out with a new implementation, BPC is the recommended solution for several reasons:
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Hi Experts,
I need your valid input on this issue. We have 6 company codes and wanted to have a consolidation P&L and BS. I have implemented EC-CS and have done all the all necessary configuration and the data is flowing to EC-CS without any problems. My concern here is whether i have done right in Cons chart of accounts or not. I have created one consolidated chart of accounts in FI which as 1:1 relationship with operational coa and also copied Financial statment version. But for some reason the FSV is not copied correctly to EC-CS in FS hierarchy for example under assets->current assets->cash i just get the group as cash but it doesnt bring all the FS items or GL accounts under it, where as FI i can see all the GL accounts under cash. My question here is how to copy the same FSV from FI to EC-CS as FS hierarchy.
Since I am using 1:1 relationship between consolidated coa and operation coa, what's the best way bring all the GL accounts in FI to EC-CS as FS item including the financial statment version. I went to CX16 and transfered automatically from FSV, it just brought in the higher level groups and not the lower level FS item.
Could somebody suggest me the better way of doing it or am i doing something wrong? Another question is how does the retained earnings work, does it work the same way as FI, transfering net income/loss from p&l to BS, since the data is transfered from FI on real time update?
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Best Regards,
gj

Hi Dan,
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.
thanks
Best Regards,
gj

Urgent : Doubt in Chart of accounts & Report generating

Hi Gurus,
Hope all are doing well !!
I have a doubt in generating Balance sheet & Financial statement report for country specific COA.
The Scenario is like this:
We have 3 Company codes and all company codes are assigned with single operating chart of acconts.
In one company code there is an addtional requirement of maintaining country specific COA.
All three company codes are maintaining same Group (consolidated) chart of accounts.
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How to generate FS report for Country specific COA for the Company code along with the operating COA? And also would be helpful if you can explain me how it can also be for Group chart of account.
As per my understanding once you assign an operating COA to a co code and account determination is done, the table SKB1 (GL master co code segment)will get linked to the respective co code and you may not be able to creat data in co code segment of GL master record for another COA (Viz.Country specific COA). There is no such customisation has given to adopt this. Probably there should be some report or program need to be executed to copy the relevant table and country templates.
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Message was edited by:
sudheer Raja Gubba

In IMG, under 'Global parameters for company code', you need to mention the country chart of Accounts in one of the fields.
In the GL master, you need to fill in the Alternate Account number field with the Account from the country COA.
As for reporting,COA is one of the selection criteria for any standard report anyway.
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EC-CS - FS Items that are not assigned to Consol Chart of Accounts

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when you are in the beginning of the of the project you can generate the EC-CS FS Items out of the consolidation chart of accounts finance Financial statement.
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SEM-BCS configuration

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Hi Latha,
It is good that you are starting to learn SEM-BCS. To do that you need to have the knowledge of Business Process. Since you are FI certified understanding of Business Process should not be a problem.
Add to this, it would be better to have knowledge also in BW. As SEM-BCS is an application the storage of Data will be in BW and also the reporting.
SAP provides enough documentation, at http://help.sap.com but initially you might not understand everthing at one shot. Keep trying.
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SEM-BCS Fi requirements

Hi all,
We are planning to work with SEM-BCS (Consolidation). Is there any requeriment or condition that you have to take care or implement in FI module regarding customizing? We are not using New-GL and the sap version is ECC 6.0.
Any help on this topic will be very usefull.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Lionel

Yu need to d any custme r config setting in R/3 fr cnslidating.
Yu would be ding consolidating from BW to BCS Where yu t run the data stream t lad the data nce the BCS design has done.
For Customizing...
SEM-BCS
Transaction Codes
SEM BCS T-Codes
For BCS
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/f5/e16f3a53dee246e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm
Edited by: Prasad B on Aug 20, 2008 1:42 AM

Preparation for Consolidation in SEM-BCS.

Hello All,
Im implementing SEM - BCS (BW-based). I have the following versions:
- R/3: SAP ECC 6.0
- BW: 7.0
- SEM: 6.0
What do I have to customize in R/3 in order to extract the correct data to BW?
Do I have to do all the customization in transaction SPRO (Enterprise Controlling -> Integration: Preparation for Consolidation)?
I know that I have to create the companies and assign them to the company codes. I also have to create group chart of accounts and assign it to the transactional chart of accounts.
Can I do this in the account master data or do I have to have a Financial Statement Version for the Group?
Is it necessary to maintain Transaction Types for Consolidation?
Do I have to customize the Consolidation Staging Ledger and extract the data from here to BW?
I think I have to customize all this, but because all this transactions are in EC-CS customizing and I want to implement SEM - BCS (in BW), Im not sure if this is the right path.
Can anyone help me?
Regards,
Helena

Helena Coelho wrote:Helena Coelho wrote:Helena Coelho wrote:Helena Coelho wrote:
GANSHA,
what you are telling me is:
- I don´t have to do the customization in ECC. The only thing I have to do is, identify the tables and extract the data I need to BW.
But this way, how does the system know, which postings are from group companies or not?
The company code in R/3 is equivalent to company (consolidation unit role) in BCS. The Group companies are created in BCS and the companies in BCS are under those group companies.
If I were you, I would check whether Fiscal Year Variant is same across all company codes in R/3. I would also check whether parallel currencies are activated or not. Non-activation of parallel currency is not issue, but I will try to understand what are all the currencies involved and the currency translation flow.
I have created the companies in ECC in order to fill the "Trading Partner" field in the master data ( vendor, customer and G/L accounts) and to use on FI postings.
Yes, you have taken the right steps.
I have created the transaction types in ECC in order to use them on FI postings.
None of this is necessary? I dont have all the company codes in SAP, some of the data will be uploaded to BW by file.
The transaction types in ECC are different from the transaction types (also known as Movement Types) in BCS. You will continue to maintain the FI transaction types.
Regarding the chart of accounts, I dont have a group chart of accounts. For what I understand theres two ways:
- creating a group chart of accounts in ECC and in BW will be available as part of the GL account master data
or
- creating Financial statement items for consolidation in ECC, Build a Financial Statement Version for the Group (linking the operational chart of accounts to the consolidation items).
I think, this is the only way for me to use the consolidation staging ledger (totals table GLT3)? Or am I wrong?
What you are telling me is that I dont have to do this in ECC, but in BCS customizing?
Im confused ... please help me!!!
Helena
In your ECC, whether GLT3 table is activated? In many clients' companies, GLT3 table is not activated. The GL totals data is available in BSEG table.
If you do not have Group COA/ Group GL accounts maintained now, there are many ways to get GL totals data with Group GL level info added. You have already mentioned the steps.
One more method is create a custom mapping table of Operational GL accounts with Group GL accounts outside R/3 (to be maintained as part of BW) and make your R/3 GL totals data to flow thru this table, so that the final data in BW is available in both operational GL accounts and Group GL accounts. Developers will be able to help you.
Edited by: GANSHA on Jan 11, 2008 8:39 AM

Consolidation multiple operational chart of accounts

am on a consolidation project and I have the following scenario.
There are about 25 companies spread across the globe.
The requirement is only legal consolidation.
But unfortunately they dont use global chart of accounts. Out of 25 company codes 20 companies use CoA A and the rest of the CoA B. Had it been a single CoA it would have been a straight forward implementation. SInce it involves two CoAs I would like to know how to go further on this. I know BIW based BCS can handle this. But when it comes to the question of real life implementation every one is tight lipped. Appreciate if anyone could throw some light on this.

Dan
<b>Appreciate your comments on this which will add value</b>.
Yes. It is not a straight forward implementation but not too complex. There are more than one way to tackle this issue. But my solution is based on maintenance perspective since there will be regular addition of GL accounts. You have also not mentioned whether your client has Group chart of accounts in place. I assume that you dont have group chart of accounts and only operational chart of accounts in place for these two sets of companies.
Solution 1. At the time of extracting the data from R/3 table you can map it to a group chart of accounts in transfer rules.
Solution 2 You can also do a mapping between operational chart of accounts and group chart of accounts when you are mapping between source data basis and data basis.
Solution 3 You can create look up table (Ztable) separately containing the following fields
name of the chart of accounts, operational GL accounts and group chart of accounts. When the data extracted from R/3 data will look ino this table and group account number will be populated based on this mapping table.
I would recommend this since this easier to maintenance since users need not go into BIW or SEM whenever a new account is added into R/3 side.
Hope this gives you some idea. Pl let me know if you have more questions.

Concept of Integrated Consolidation Unit of SEM BCS

HI Experts,
I'm now in the SEM BCS 4.0 and BW 3.5 implementation. Previously I was the ECCS specialist and before the FI and AM specialist.
Now I'm in SEM BCS implementation.
I have one question in connection to the integrated consolidation unit. As the reference, I take the concept of this using the ECCS.
As you might know, the creation of integrated consolidation unit for using realtime update method in ECCS, is pulled from FI company ID.
Meanings if I set the configuration properly, I can pull out the company master data as the consolidation unit master data in consolidation monitor.
Now, in SEM BCS, I want to do the same thing. I mean, off course I can create company ID in R/3 and then create the consolidation unit manually using UCWB. But this scenario can create inconsistency, and I also think this is not the right concept of doing integration between R/3 and SEM BCS.
My question is : what is the concept of this master data integration, and what is the proper way to do it?
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regards,
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Hi Halim,
You need to build properly your data basis in data model.
Assign your company to a consolidation unit role:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sem350bw/helpdata/en/dd/f3783bcfef4a2de10000000a114084/frameset.htm
I sent to you the file concerning BCS that you asked for in another thread.
Best regards,
Eugene

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In one scenario there are three company codes and all the three are using the same chart of accounts as operational COA. My question is for consolidation purpose it is necessary to maintain the same COA as group COA and assign it operational COA? Thanks in advance.
Srinivas.

Hi Adi,
Thanks for the reply. Is it compulsory that we have to maintain a group COA for consolidation purpose? even though all the three company codes uses the same operatinal COA. If it is cumpulsory, in OB13 can we maintain the operational COA as Consolidated/Group chart of a/c? In our case for ex:OCOA.
Regards,
Srinivas

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Hi all,
I am newbie in SEM-BCS and implementing BW-based BCS. Our situation is as follows.
Situation
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   Every company consists of at least two business areas in R/3.
- we have sales transaction in FI among companies.
requirement
- we need consolidated F/S in whole consolidation group and consolidated F/S in Business area level.
actually, we are planning to make the consolidation unit in company level.
Do we have to break down consolidation unit in business area? or just breakdown category solves our requirement?
If we have sales transaction even between business areas within certain company, do we have to make it in business area?

Following are the answer to your questions
Q:   What to do for using this cube in BCS?
A:    Add the business area to the cube. Generate the data basis and the business area gets added to all ODS/DSO , virtual cube.
Suggestion: To avoid deleting the Profit center cube, since you can reduce the complication.
Q:   Is it the problem about DATA BASIS Role?
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Q:   Is there some materials to solve this situation?
A:   Refer the matrix consolidation material in help.sap.com from BCS portion. As per SAP literature any relevant object can be made as second consolidation unit such as business area, functional area etc. Dont fear. Once you start it the issue will be resolved in few days.
Expected complication:
If you are going to make business area as subassignment then it is simple. But if you are making business area as Consolidation unit, go for partner business area in cube.
Ensure with your BI consultant that all BCS messages are addressed in BI infoobject for business area specifically.
Things can get complicated only if we allow for it get complicated. But you are doing great.. Keep posted.. Good luck.!!!..

Group chart of account assign consolidation report

Hi All,
Group chart of account assign consolidation report is throwing error in SAP. Kindly please let me know the process.
Thanks...
Saravana
Edited by: saravana j on Jan 6, 2010 8:00 AM
Edited by: saravana j on Jan 6, 2010 9:03 AM

Hi,
1. chart of accounts--> common set of accounts.
2. Group of acts--> group chart of acts.
Generally we use common set of acts.
For common set of A/c-->OB13.
For A/C groups>OBD4>new entries> give your chart of A/C, A/C group, name, from A/C and to A/c> SAVE.
Assigning company code to chart of accounts-->OB62.
Thanks.
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