PAPM Allocation function

[former_member712334]

Dear all,

I am new to PAPM, I have to set up a business case where I have to allocate amounts from a group of profit center to several other profit center groups.

Can anyone tell me which Hana table I can use ?
I created a profit center hierarchy and several cost centers (my client doesn’t use profit centers for the imputations, but cost centers).

How can I allocate the costs from my group of profit centers (sender) to my receivers ?
my structure is as follow

Hierarchy A

Profit center hierarchy1

Profit center groupA : Receiver

Profit centerA

Cost center

Profit center groupB : Receiver

Profit centerB1

Cost center

Profit centerB2

Cost Center

Profit center groupC : Sender

Profit centerC

Cost center
I thought about creating model views on ACDOCA and hierarchy tables.

However, The fields are not the same between the two tables.

Can anyone help please,

Many thanks in adva

[former_member713148]

Hi Naima,

Were you able to achieve this in PaPM? Please suggest. We need to consider CC Grouping and GL Grouping for allocation. How can this be done?

Example as below,

I have - Assume Receiver is CC G1.

a. 2 Cost Center Groups CC G1 & CC G2 having 2 cost centers respectively.

b.GL Group GL G1, having 4 GL Accounts.

Sender CC G1 CC1 GL1 GL G1 CC2 GL2 CC G2 CC3 GL3 CC4 GL4

now, sender should become as follow

Sender Receiver CC G2, GL G1 CC G1

i.e it should take all combination of respective CC & GL group then allocate to receiver.

CC3,GL1 CC G1 CC3,GL2 CC G1 CC3,GL3 CC G1 CC3,GL4 CC G1 CC4,GL1 CC G1 CC4,GL2 CC G1 CC4,GL3 CC G1 CC4,GL4 CC G1

[alex_marasigan]

Dear Naima,

Good day.

We wish to ask for more information on how do you want your allocation to work.

Please find below clarifications/questions for us to help you.

1. Is my understanding correct that for your sender table you wish to use an ACDOCA (from S4 System) table?
2. The output of the allocation is to be written again on S4/HANA?
3. What do you mean by "manage an allocation on a hierarchy based in PAPM"?

May we request for an example if possible, with input and output tables (with rules of the hierarchy) so that we could recommend a proper solution.

Awaiting your feedback.

Thank you and best regards,

Alex

[former_member712334]

Hi

Thanks for your answer. Actually, I knew all of that.

I wanted to know how to manage an allocation on a hierarchy base in PaPM (my sender table is ACDOCA, my client wants the data from S/4) so as when the allocation is made in PaPM and data is posted back to S/4 HANA or ECC it is posted following the hierarchy.

Many thanks

[alex_marasigan]

H Naima,

Good day.

When configuring an allocation function, you are not limited to only use Hana tables for your sender and receiver, instead, you may use model tables as your sender and receiver. you may follow this link on how to create a model table. (https://help.sap.com/viewer/56471df1959f4cfd9e3bf7a6d2d5be42/3.11/en-US/74e067f811f44d89b16b9f230cdb7633.html).

You may allocate records from the sender in two ways;

1. direct allocation - which allocates records from sender to receiver with the same characteristics and;

2. indirect allocation - which allocates records from sender according to distribution criteria.

For more information on the allocation function please follow the link below https://help.sap.com/viewer/56471df1959f4cfd9e3bf7a6d2d5be42/3.11/en-US/a243683a584544e0a4198654e6a3...

Hope this helps.

Thank you and best regards,

Alex