Where to maintain accounting hierarchies?

[g11600]

Hi

We are currently implementing cFin and GR. We have approx 20K cost centers defined in SAP ECC.

Business is being asked to maintain the cost center hierarchy 4 times in parallel, manually;

* GUI in SAP ECC

* GUI in S4HANA

* Fiori in S4HANA (Cost Center Hierarchy)

* Fiori in S4HANA (Consolidation Cost Center Hierarchy)

This is high overhead for business, and potential source of errors.

Have customers managed to automate any of these?

Thanks

[jack_nijssen]

hi,

Pls be informed that GR has it's own SAP FIORI Apps (versus ERP, CFIN) to upload hierarchies, such as Financial Statement Item (FSI) Hierarchy, Consolidation Unit Hierarchy...

What you could look at is the functionality of the so-called SAP S4HANA flexible hierarchies and or load the hierarchies via an external system with BAPIs / APIs.

It also depends whether you can upload all hierarchies properly in tables like SETHEADER/SETLEAF, HRRP_NODE... because often these hierarchies are structures and not tables and not the same structure across ERP, CFIN, GR.

What we also use in the CFIN system is uploading the hierarchy tables via SAP BRF+ in which we add rules. I guess you could do the same with SAP BPM.

When you implement SAP CFIN together with e.g. Magnitude then maybe you could load via SAP BODS....

Further, what you can look at if you can copy hierarchies from one environment to the other, so you upload only once and automatically fill the others.

Lastly, i believe you could also use Robotics (RPA), such as SAP Winshutle, SAP UI Path to load hierarchies into multiple systems

In other words, i would plot the technical ways that apply to your company / landscape / licenses and see which ones works best.

Jack