Operational Chart of Account in S/4HANA cloud Private cloud edition

[former_member613804]

Dear Team,

Gone through the available documentation on Chart of Accounts and thereby endedup with few points of concern specific to Private cloud.

I understood that YCOA is the standard default operative COA in coud system and cannot be replaced by customer specific COA. However, Renumbering is allowed, change of text is allowed etc.,

Will it applies only to Public Cloud.? or is it same for private edition as well?
Any Differences exists?

Would be helpful if someone could throw some light on this.!

Thanks & Regards,

[Marco_Valencia · Accepted solution]

In SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud we deliver a pre-configure chart of accounts. The idea is to standardize as much as possible so customers can accelerate the implementation and use SAP Best Practices. As you mentioned in Public Cloud customer can't be replaced it by customer specific COA, they can only do some adaptations. : https://help.sap.com/viewer/743f86e8e3d24171b53314780fffeb06/2105%20500/en-US

In SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition you have the option to build your Chart of Accounts from scratch if you want: https://help.sap.com/viewer/651d8af3ea974ad1a4d74449122c620e/2020.002/en-US/9f53c2531bb9b44ce1000000... however this will take time as you will also need to configure account determination. Customers in Private Cloud Edition can also benefit with pre-configuration using the Enterprise Management Layer for SAP S/4HANA as this provide a preconfiguration that can accelerate the implementation. As SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition has full access to IMG, you can make changes as needed.

For information about Enterprise Management Layer, please refer to this links: https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2921887 & https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3024039

[former_member613804 · Accepted solution]

Hi marco.valencia

Thankyou so much for your Prompt Response.

Gone through the NOTES suggested above, and could get few points out of them. As you mentioned that, Customers in Private Cloud Edition can also benefit with pre-configuration using the Enterprise Management Layer for SAP S/4HANA;; I would like to understand the process on how exactly the Chart of Accounts creation could be done using Enterprise Management Layer for SAP S/4HANA without doing from scratch.

It would be of great help if you can guide me to Learn/Understand this..!

[Marco_Valencia]

When enterprise management layer or Best Practices are activated in your system, the system then comes preconfigure with the YCOA + the Account determination. The details are described in the best practices explorer: https://rapid.sap.com/bp/BP_OP_ENTPR there you will see a link for COA - https://help.sap.com/viewer/1f2ae10b96f740759d66e695f953dd8f/2020%20500/en-US

The key here, you need to make a decision if you activate Best Practices, so you can see all preconfigure content.

[Marco_Valencia]

To get preconfiguration in your system (private cloud edition) you have two options:

a) Provision enterprise management layer: The system will come already with all preconfiguration. This process can be executed before system provisioning. Keep in mind that for private cloud edition customers the enterprise management layer has an additional service cost. Please refer to the notes I sent you for additional information.

b) You can activate Best Practices. This will also provide the preconfiguration you need. To look at best practices please look here: https://rapid.sap.com/bp/BP_OP_ENTPR

Hope this helps

[former_member613804]

Hi marco.valencia

Your inputs are informative and thanks for that.

of course Option "a" comes with an extra cost, but I would like to understand the basic procedural difference between "a" and "b" in the context of COA. As explained in your previous comment, I understood that option "b" facilitates to build operational COA from scratch and takes lot of time (which we typically do in On-premise). But if we choose to go with option "a", I would like to understand the procedure by which we achieve the creation of our own COA without expending that much time.

Thanks & Regards,

[Tatiana_Carvalho]

Hi! Did you figure out if it is possible to do the renumbering of YCOA accounts on the Private Cloud Edition?