Revision History
1. All GL Accounts will need to be Profit Center relevant. Field Status Groups
will need to be modified to make profit center required in all Balance
sheet accounts.
a. Changed field status group Z005, Z008, Z009 and Z011 to make
profit center required field. The remaining field status groups do
not need any change because cost object will derive profit centers
automatically.
b. Created a new fields status group Z007 (Trading partner required &
Profit center optional) for automatic inter-company clearing account
(240050) in all company codes.
c. Created a new field status group Z006 (Profit center optional) and
derive default profit center from FAGL3KEH transaction table.
Example is ICA Rollover account 259900 in all company codes.
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6. Check validation rules defined for certain project types using GL account
sets.
8. Check substitution rules and see whether it can be deleted or need some
changes.
9. Make sure that one company to one company code relationship exists for
inter-company transactions. It is a prerequisite for New GL.
10.Have gone through the financial statement groups with the users and
decided that profit center is needed at all financial statement levels. It is
also decided that to use a profit center (currently one profit center is
defined per company code) belong to the company code for document
splitting and existing production interfaces.
11.As part of blue printing, we identified programs that uses GLT0, GLPCA
and GLPCT tables and those programs will be changed to utilize New GL
tables.
12.It is important to make sure that partner profit center field is populated
for intra-company transactions.
13.As part of blue print session, it is decided by the users that we will use
auto clearing account in SAP New GL, so that every document will be
balanced at profit center level. This will help Centex in the future, in case
the division bank accounts are combined to a few.
14. Test and validate all scenarios mentioned in the unit test script. These
scenarios are used in production (SAP) today. New processes defined as
part of ACE Financials will be tested as part ACE financials integration
testing phase.
15. It is decided to deactivate classic GL after the end of fiscal year 2009. So
transactions will be posted only to the new GL tables from fiscal year
2010.
16. Use document type “YF” to post both vendor and customer in one FI
document using an offsetting balance sheet account. System will use the
profit center from the offset account and move it to the open item line
item.
18.Create migration plan for each fiscal year variant and execute steps
mentioned in the cockpit.
19.SAP will perform scenario validation in unit testing phase and test
validation at the end of second integration test cycle.
21.User will sign off on migration validation at the end of cycle 3 and
production cutover. They will compare the GL balance before and after
migration activities.