Transfering Cost from one WBS to Other while retaining CE

Question

Dear Gurus,
My client requires to transfer cost from 1WBS of a project to several WBS's. We maintain different CoCd's for all the projects. Client also wants Fi document to keep track of the transaction, hence he has reject option of Manual reposting.
My requirement is as under, (for eg.)
WBSA CE(111) to WBS1 (CE111) amt 123
WBSA CE(222) to WBS2 (CE222) amt 655
WBSA CE(333) to WBS3 (CE333) amt 998
WBSA CE(444) to WBS4 (CE444) amt 456
WBSA CE(555) to WBS5 (CE555) amt 124
WBSA CE(666) to WBS6 (CE666) amt 564
WBS's 1-6 may or may not be from same project.
but in reality when I test settlement rule for 1st transaction, I realized a behavior of settlement rule as belows,
Cost 123 in WBSA CE(111)  went to WBS1 but proportionally splitted to various CE's i.e. CE111= 5.2,CE111= 27.6,CE111= 42,CE111= 19.2,CE111= 5.2,CE111= 23.8.
Please assist.
Manish

Answer 1

Hi once more ...
i will try to elaborate based on your example...
please use transaction OKEU to create source structure.
Create (for example) 1 source structure (ex ZZ) with
6 different assignments
(ex assignment 1 for cost element 111
assignment 2 for cost element 222
assignment 3 for cost element 333
assignment 4 for cost element 444
assignment 5 for cost element 555
assignment 6 for cost element 666)
Then you have to maintain the settlement rule of your sender wbs element WBSA and create 6 different segments as you may probably have done already.
Be careful when entering the settlement rule use F8 button to go to Settlement parameters and insert the source structure ZZ that you have created.
Then in each of the the assignments fill in the appropriate Source assignment field: in the example it will be
WBS1 assignment 1 for cost element 111 ->Source Assignment 1
WBS2 assignment 2 for cost element 222 ->Source Assignment 2
WBS3 assignment 3 for cost element 333 ->Source Assignment 3
WBS4 assignment 4 for cost element 444 ->Source Assignment 4
WBS5 assignment 5 for cost element 555 ->Source Assignment 5
WBS6 assignment 6 for cost element 666 ->Source Assignment 6...
This way the system will not take proportionally from each cost element the amount but will only look for the cost elements
you have specified.
If you have more cost elements in your wbs WBSA (sender) that you don't want to settle then create an assignment 7 with the rest of the cost elements that will not be settled.
Run the settlement to see the results (CJ88,CJ8G)
Try it and let me know for your findings....
Pan
Edited by: Panagiotis Papaspyridakos on Apr 7, 2010 4:50 PM