ECC 6.

0 VS S 4 HANA

Key Points
1. Customer Business Partner (Customer Business Partner roles)
2. Account determination (VKOA – Provisions is in ECC and Accruals in S 4 HANA)
3. Parallel ledger accounting ( ECC- Leading and Non-Leading ledger S4H- Standard
and Extended ledger)
4. House bank (ECC- House bank and Account ID and S4H manage banks and
Manage Bank account apps)
5. Vendor- Business Partner (Vendor Business Partner roles)
6. OKB9 Vs Cost element Master data
a. In ECC
b. In S 4 HANA
c. After Migration ECC to S 4 HANA
7. GL master data and Cost element master data
a. In ECC- Both are different – Create either manually or automatically
b. In S4H- There is no separate C E master data- Instead GL master includes CE also
c. GL account Type is new to S4H
d. Cost element master data was removed in S4H
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1. Customer-Business Partner (Customer Business Partner roles)

 In S4H Both customer and Vendor treated as Business Partners
 In ECC We are maintaining customer master data separately that too each module wise (FD01, VD01 and
XD01- Centrally)
 In S4H these are clubbed together and maintained Business partner roles through this we can segregate
roles as per business partner (T.code: BP )
 In S4H, if you are creating BP as customer we will select
o 000000 – Business Partner (Gen.)
o FLCU00 – Customer (Fin. Accounting)
o FLCU01 – Customer (Sales org.)

2. Account determination (VKOA – Provisions is in ECC and Accruals in S 4

HANA)
 In S4H they gave extra combinations in assign GL Accounts
S 4 HANA (1809) ECC

 Nomenclature was changed for Provision account stead of this Accruals account.

3. Parallel ledger accounting ( ECC- Leading and Non-Leading ledger S4H-

Standard and Extended ledger)
 In ECC Parallel ledger accounting
1. Leading Ledger Ex: 0L
2. NON – Leading ledger Ex: MI-MIS Reporting, IF- IFRS Reporting and etc.
 In S4H Parallel ledger account
1. Standard ledger (Leading Ledger) Ex: 0L
2. Standard ledger (NON- Leading ledger) Ex: MI-MIS Reporting, IF- IFRS Reporting and etc.
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3. Extension Ledger
 In S4H we post transaction in 0L (Leading ledger)

4. House bank (ECC- House bank and Account ID and S4H manage banks and
Manage Bank account apps)
 In ECC House bank and account ID we maintain in SAP itself with T.code: FI12
 In S4H (1610) Manages banks and Manage bank account apps maintaining with Fiori (T.code: FI12_HBANK)
 In S4H (1809) again reusing ECC House bank and account ID concept, Because Business people not accepting
the changes, who are using SAP application S4H. (T.code :FI12)

5. Vendor- Business Partner (Vendor Business Partner roles)

 In ECC Vendor Master data maintained separately each module wise or cross module
 In S4H Vendor master data is converted to Business partner with Business partners roles, in BP no need to
give link between vendor and customer when organisation having business in both ways.
 Business partner roles for Vendor : 1. 000000 – Business Partner (Gen.), 2. FLVN01 – Supplier, 3. FLVN00 –
Supplier (Fin. Accounting)

6. OKB9 Vs Cost element Master data

o In ECC – Cost element master data was maintained separately (KA01), Here we have option give
default cost center and OKB9 also.
o In S 4 HANA – Cost element master data maintained GL master data itself, for this changes made in
GL master data with G/L account type; 1. N- Non- Operating Expense or Income, 2. P – Primary Costs
or Revenue, 3. S- Secondary costs, 4. X- Balance sheet Account.
o In S4H we have option only one i.e. OKB9.
o After Migration ECC to S 4 HANA – While migration to S4 HANA System Automatically adjust the
configuration for OKB9.
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7.GL master data and Cost element master data

e. In ECC- Both are different – Create either manually or automatically
f. In S4H- There is no separate C E master data- Instead GL master includes CE also
g. GL account Type is new to S4H
h. Cost element master data was removed in S4H
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