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[BijayKumarBarik]

Hi SAP Gurus,

I am working in ECC 6.0,

I have a problem now ............

I have two posting period open ( Current one & curent minus one) now ,lets example June(06) and May(05), so I can post all the GR and Invoice in June and May month only. Now I want to post few Invoices and GR's in February and March Month...............How I will do it.

I tried with OMSY,MMRV and MMPV,,But not clear about.

Can you tell me the steps to proceed further and complete the posting on february and march.

Thanking you in advance,

B2K

[Former Member]

Hi,

Do you want the back periods to be open along with the current periods. If so, then its difficult to do. this is because at a time you can keep three periods open. One the curent period, rest two are the previous and post period.

So if you want to post anything on back period then you have to open the period by transaction code: MMPI.

After making all the entries, you close the periods again to move to current period.

Regards

[BijayKumarBarik]

Hello Mr.Mukesh,

I want to post only in March and February not current period and march.Now My period is open 06, So I can post in 05(may) and 06(June)

So as you are guiding ,I will follow these steps.

1.MMPI : I will open period February(02) and march(03),and post my GR's and invoices,

2.MMPV : Again I will open current Posting periods ie......(06),

So not required to go to T.Code: OMSY,

Following these steps, any problems will be there???

Can you write complete steps to proceed.

With Regards,

B2K

[Former Member]

Hi,

You MUST NOT try to open periods earlier than the previous period.

MMPI is a special Initialise transaction and is not designed to open old periods, it is designed for special situations ONLY.

There should be no financial reason why you MUST open these earlier periods. You will find a financial workaround that can be used instead of trying to do this.

You can have only TWO periods open at any one time (Not three as mentioned in an earlier reply).

So please find another option other than opening these earlier periods.

Steve B

[BijayKumarBarik]

Hi Mr.Steve,

So its not possible to post GR's and Invoice's in March month or February month?

Now only June (06)period is open.I do not want three periods to open.My objective is post some GR's and Invoice's in March and February.

Then how is it possible post if the above is the scenario's

If possible , let me know the steps.

Regards,

B2K

[Former Member]

Hi B2K,

first of all business best practice is to close all transaction in month end, if not at exterme cases one or two days delayed.

how are you getting a requriement to post very much back previous periods, this has to be handled with FI postings just check with them for any possiblities.

Regards

[BijayKumarBarik]

Hi Mr Ranganath,

So not possible to post My Invoices and GR's in March and February Months as My Current period is JUNE.

So no process for above scenario's.

Regards,

B2K

[Former Member]

Hi,

Unfortunately yes, this is correct, you cannot post anything to any period earlier that the previous period.

Steve B

[BijayKumarBarik]

Hi Mr.Steve,

There are method to do so,but I am not clear.........

Just we have to close current period and start ur required period in MMPI and then system will ask some note number and we have execute it.Then we have to go SU01 and for the user we have to active it.We may have to run some program, but by running some program, we may lost some data.So I am not clear about the process.

Can u explain pl.

With Regards,

B2K

[BijayKumarBarik]

Hi Mr.Steve,

So no solutions for the above scenario.

With Regards,

B2K

[Former Member]

Hi,

MMPI is used to INITIALISE the period. This is used for the very first period that you will be posting to when you start using the company code in SAP for the first time.

The notes that you have seen are workarounds for resetting the INITIAL period if mistakes have been made.

In your case, no mistakes have been made and so MMPI is NOT appropriate.

Surely there is no major disater if you cannot post these to the correct month? It would be far better to account for these than to try to break a very important SAP rule, just to correct a historical posting?

Are you financial people stating that they ABSOLUTELY MUST post these to a historical month? I think that you need to tell them that this is definitely NOT recommended in SAP and is best thought of as being impossible. (even though there APPEARS to be an option, this should not be used)

Steve

[BijayKumarBarik]

Hi Mr.Steve,

My Problem still not solved.Hope I will find an answer.If Not I will try to post in F-43 all my Invoice in february month, But do not know what I will do all my GR's and SES's.

Requirements are to post all SES"s, GR"s and Invoices in February Month.Do not know ,how to proceed with.

With Regards,

Biju K