Customization Phase - GL

SAP Simple Finance

CUSTOMIZATION PHASE GENERAL LEDGER

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Migration Phases

Project Data Post

Installation Customizing
Preparation Migration Processing

- Quite similar to the ASAP methodology

- But not as large as we are only looking at Simple Finance
- It is almost like migrating from Classic GL to New GL in terms of scope, with added
functionalities of HANA

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Customization Phase
Customizing General Ledger Accounting
Customizing Asset Accounting (New)
Customizing Controlling (Account-based CO-PA)

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Customizing General Ledger Accounting

Activate New GL
Go to T-code: SE38

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Customizing General Ledger Accounting..

You need to go through
these 11 activities for
GL configuration.
Some activities might
be optional depending
on your configurations.

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1. Check and Adopt Fiscal Year Variants

Fiscal year Variants have to be the same for all company codes
under one Controlling Area

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2. Migrate General Ledger Customizing

You migrate the
following configs for
General Ledgers:
Company code
assignments
Currency settings
Fiscal year variant
Open period variant
Settings for real-time
integration of CO-FI

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3. Define Settings for Ledgers and Currency Types

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4. Define Ledger for CO Version

Assign the ledgers to the company codes
Assign the leading ledger and any other ledgers (if required)
Assign the ledger for CO (usually its 0L which is the leading ledger)

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5. Define Document Types for Postings in

Controlling
Create new Document Type for
postings in Controlling
Or use the sample one provided
CO

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6. Define Document Type Mapping Variants

for CO Business Transactions
Set a mapping variant that maps CO business transactions to Doc Types
Must be done for all CO actual posting transactions
You can use the sample one or copy it to create your own

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7. Check and Define Default Values for

Postings in Controlling
You have to assign the mapping variant in step 6 to the company codes in use
This step is done to ensure for transactions like interfaces where they do not
allow you to enter a document type. So this will default the document type
for the transactions. As per our example in previous slides, the doc type is
CO

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8. Define Offsetting Account Determination

Type
You define how the system determines the offsetting account
Recommended by SAP As case 2, but including line items.

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9. Define Currency Settings for Migration

You can skip this step
If you do want to create click on Edit from Menu and Select New Entries

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10. Define Source Ledger for Migration of

Balances
You can define the source ledger here
Also you can define the target ledger (if required)
Define the company code(s) which are applicable
Define starting fiscal year

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11. Execute Consistency Check of General

Ledger Settings
The configuration settings for the ledgers are checked
After you run, there should not be any errors reported

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Activate Business Functions

You need to activate the business functions which are required for SFIN
FIN_GL_CI_1
Drilldown reports for profit centers, segments
FIN_GL_CI_2 Authorization checks for profit centers
FIN_GL_CI_3 Validation for Account Assignment combinations, etc.

Then transport this to the Test and Production clients

You can request BASIS to perform this activity (T-code SFW5)

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Recap
Customizing General Ledger Accounting is quite simple.. just follow
the tasks in the SPRO menu step-by-step
All the changes should be in a transport request and must be
transported to other systems (QAS, PRD)
All the years postings should be migrated to Simple Finance

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