Hierarchy
BBPCRM (Software Component) BBPCRM⤷
CRM (Application Component) Customer Relationship Management⤷
CRM_APPLICATION (Package) All CRM Components Without Special Structure Packages⤷
KE1C (Package) Customizing for Profit Center Accounting
IMG Activity
| ID | SIMG_CFMENUORK18KEO | Derive Representative Materials |
| Transaction Code | S_ALR_87004010 | IMG Activity: SIMG_CFMENUORK18KEO |
| Created on | 19981222 | |
| Customizing Attributes | SIMG_CFMENUORK18KEO | Derive Representative Materials |
| Customizing Activity | SIMG_CFMENUORK18KEO | Derive representative materials |
Document
| Document Class | SIMG | Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs. |
| Document Name | SIMG_CFMENUORK18KEO |
In this activity, you maintain derivation rules which help to find representative materials for individual materials or for intervals of materials.
You can derive a representative material from one of the source fields below, or from a combination of these fields:
- Controlling area
- Company code
- Valuation area
Requirements
You have performed the two activities
Activate Representative Materials and
Choose Representative Materials.
Activities
By combining these source fields, you can determine a sequence of derivation steps. To do this, enter Edit -> Choose or Edit -> Create Step
Under Goto -> Maintain rule values you can maintain several derivation rules per derivation step, which the system will process in succession. As soon as a default profit center is found for a derivation rule, the system will add this profit center and will cease processing derivation rules.
It is possible that not all characteristics are set in all postings. If the system does not find a default for a posting in any of the rule values contained in the derivation step, it skips to the next derivation step.
Example
You assign materials 4711 to 4721 to the representative material 4711.
Recommendation
Remember that complex derivation strategies can lead to significantly longer program runtimes.
To ensure the consistency of the representative materials, you should make the assignments at the controlling area level.
Further notes
If you have activated the key figure Display error message for a derivation step under Edit -> Choose on the tab page characteristics, a warning will appear if no rule value is maintained for the current posting. The derivation step will then be ended, and other existing derivation steps will cease to process. To avoid this, enter a rule value for every combination of source values you use.
On the same tab page, you can make a setting so that rule values can be maintained with validity date. This allows you, for example, to deactivate values temporarily for testing purposes without having to delete them.
For more information about maintenance of derivation rules, see the section Profitability analysis (CO-PA) in the SAP Library, under Characteristic derivation.
Notes on Transport
You have to transport derivation rules manually. Choose Extras -> Transport.
Business Attributes
| ASAP Roadmap ID | 203 | Establish Master Data |
| Mandatory / Optional | 2 | Optional activity |
| Critical / Non-Critical | 1 | Critical |
| Country-Dependency | A | Valid for all countries |
Assigned Application Components
| Documentation Object Class | Documentation Object Name | Current line number | Application Component | Application Component Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIMG | SIMG_CFMENUORK18KEO | 0 | ALR0002191 | Master Data |
Maintenance Objects
| Maintenance object type | C | Customizing Object |
| Assigned objects | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customizing Object | Object Type | Transaction Code | Sub-object | Do not Summarize | Skip Subset Dialog Box | Description for multiple selections |
| KEDR | T - Individual transaction object | 8KEO | 1 | Assign representative material |
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20010906 |
| SAP Release Created in |
