Dynamic Period Control (config for existing NON-DPC rate category)

[gcp]

Hello Experts,

We are planning to implement a DPC functionality, however, upon checking if we can reuse the existing rate category and only update the DPC value, it is not possible as the field is greyed out (in change mode). Does this mean that the idea here is to create a new rate cat and it's not possible to enable the DPC function on existing NON-DPC rate categories. Ideally, we want to avoid creating new rate cat as it has a lot of impact on existing reports and other functionalities.

Thanks,

Dimmak

[katrin_frenzel · Accepted solution]

Hello Dimmak,

Yes, you need to create new rate categories (and schemas) which is not that high effort as you can copy it from existing one. This is to avoid any troubles / inconsistencies during billing as existing billing master data were already used to bill installation without DPC. When this logic is now changed and for i.e. billing documents will be reversed, the system might not be able to determine the DPC period or doesn't find values to be back-billed (just as example).
Changing billing from non-DPC to DPC is a complete change of logic how to bill installations and will require therefore separate rate categories / schemas. This is well documented in the customizing for Dynamic Period Control.

Best regards,
Katrin
SAP Support

[gcp]

Hello Katrin,

Thanks for the clear response, appreciate it.

Cheers,

Dimmak