Changing CO object assignment to existing contract objects in RE-FX

[silvathais]

In my project, the customer wants the leasing vehicles to be assigned to the CO object via the cost centres of the employee who drives the vehicle. In some cases, it can happen that the vehicle is handed over to another employee who is organisationally assigned to a different cost center. In this case, the new cost center should replace the original one as from the time of vehicle's handover.

We would therefore like to know what options we have and how best to solve this.

In my test system, this would only work by creating a new object (but it would be necessary to create a new asset and trigger a new valuation with other CO object assignment). We therefore would like to avoid this.

So, does anybody know which possibilities we have?

Could this be done by using time slices for the object in question? However I tried to devide the object's timeline in the system, but the button for this was greyed out.

I would appreciate any advice on this.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Thaís

[andre_nakratzas · Accepted solution]

Hi Nayara,

I assume you are using the contract object on the contract where you've assigned the initial cost center. In the valuation parameters tab you can create a new time slice and use the new cost center in the first account assignment field. This will actually update the asset master time-dependent tab with the new cost center using the new time slice dates.

This will only take care of the valuation postings that use the cost center. In case of any other condition types that are not valuation relevant, e.g. fuel consumption these will have to be updated separately to make sure that these expenses go to the new cost center also.

The only challenge with this scenario could be that the original cost center on the contract object belongs to a different profit center than the new cost center. This means that the original capitalization of the asset is still on this profit center and there will be no automatic pro rata transfer to the new profit center. If both cost centers have the same profit center than there is no issue, but you'll have to confirm this on your project. There is no automatic asset transfer solution in CLM as far as I'm aware that would solve this problem in the standard solution.

Regards, Andre