SAP ABAP IMG Activity SIMG_CFMENUORKSKR01 (Maintain Summarization)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_FIN (Software Component) SAP_FIN
   ⤷ CO-OM-ABC (Application Component) Activity-Based Costing
     ⤷ KABC (Package) Cost Accounting: Activity-Based Costing
IMG Activity
ID SIMG_CFMENUORKSKR01 Maintain Summarization  
Transaction Code S_ALR_87001033   IMG Activity: SIMG_CFMENUORKSKR01 
Created on 19981222    
Customizing Attributes SIMG_CFMENUORKSKR01   Maintain Summarization 
Customizing Activity SIMG_CFMENUORKSKR01   Maintain Summarization 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name SIMG_CFMENUORKSKR01    

In this IMG activity you define one or more optional summarizations of cost center transaction data.

Summarization involves combining transaction data in a controlling area at cost center group level. This summarized cost center group data is updated as an additional data group in the totals records tables.

Summarization makes totals records available for Report Writer reports. This significantly shortens report runtimes for each summarization level reached, in comparison to using totals records according to subordinate cost centers.

User-defined reports must be created for evaluation. Sample reports can be found in library 1RU.

When executing summarization, the SAP system summarizes data for the cost center groups entered or for a subordinate area. As cost center group, the highest standard hierarchy node can be selected, or the highest node of an alternative hierarchy. The hierarchy areas are summarized in steps from bottom to top. Due to technical reasons, each node must be assigned a representative cost center in master data maintenance.

Recommendation

Decide carefully whether you want to create an extract of report data or execute a summarization. Summarization generates far more additional data than creating an extract does.

  • If you require few reports, it is far better to save the reports for the entire cost center hierarchy periodically in the background, and then to use extracts online. This also spares you the work of defining new summarization reports.
  • If you work with many reports defined on the spur of the moment and want access to the entire cost center standard hierarchy, you should use summarization.

Activities

  1. Define the necessary cost center standard hierarchies from a Controlling standpoint, if these do not yet exist.
  2. Create cost centers to use as representative cost centers, if these do not yet exist.

    Lock the representative cost centers against manual postings.

    An organizational simplification results if you name the cost centers similarly to the cost center groups.

  3. In cost center group maintenance or in report information for the standard hierarchy (Extras -> Report info), use the indicator to mark the representative cost center as "representative value".

    Note that at the time of maintaining the field "Representative value" the system will test only when set to Master data check whether the cost center exists in the controlling area.

  4. Enter the cost center group for summarization.
  5. Maintain the following settings:
  6. Check whether the available standard summarization reports meet your requirements.

    To create a user-defined summarization report, see User-Defined Reports.

Note on transport

For the transport of summarizations, an individual function is available in the IMG under General Controlling.

Further information

For more information, see the SAP Library under Financials -> Controlling -> Cost Center Accounting -> Information System -> Cost Center Summarizations.

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 207   Establish Reporting 
Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-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_CFMENUORKSKR01 0 HLA0001395 Cost Center Summarization 
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
KR01 T - Individual transaction object KR01 01 Create summarization 
KR02 T - Individual transaction object KR02 CCA Change summarization 
KS01 T - Individual transaction object KS01 CCA4 Create Summarization Cost Center 
KSH1 T - Individual transaction object KSH1 CCA1 Create Cost Center Group 
KSH1 T - Individual transaction object KSH2 16 Change Cost Center Group 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  19981222 
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