ISU Data Model

[Former Member]

Hi All

Our business wants to keep two company codes across all the SAP modules in ISU as well as SAP R/3.

is it possible to configure the following scenario : One BP> One Contact Account> TWO Contracts related Two Company Codes

I would like to know conflicts the above said scenario.

in Advance Thanks..............KK

[Former Member]

Hi,

It is a conflicting model. It does not going to work like that. Company code is at the Contract account level, invoice happens at contract account level, which mean you can not have two contract for different companies under one contract account. It is almost impossible from the finance point of view.

Possibly solution would be One BP --> Two contract accounts for each company --> one contract under each contract account. So basically one person is using service from both the companies but they are billed on different contract account he/she has.

-Anand

[alexander_breuer]

Hi,

that is not really right. There are such constructs in deregulated scenarios. For example 1 BP -> 1 CA -> 1 contract (distributor, company code=U100) and 1 contract (supplier, company code=U200). But in these scenarios the contract fields 'Service Provider' and 'Invoicing Service Provider' have to be filled.

Best regards,

Alexander

[Former Member]

I mentioned from end customer point of view. In such case you can not invoice same BP for services from two different company under one contract account.

I guess Alexander may be right from the distributor point of view, only in de-regulated though.

-Anand

[Former Member]

Hi, you can have under the same contract account contracts for different company codes, not problem about, in a previous project we had three different contract with different company codes under the same contract account without any problem.

You invoice contract account, that is correct, but the account determination is made using the data from the contract, in EK02 the key is company code, division, account determination id, main and sub-transaction, so you can have different postings depending on contract company code and division.

In the contract account you have two fields related to company code:

Company Code Group - Group of company codes that you can use to post to a contract account :

One company code group is assigned to each contract account. This defines which company codes can be used to post to a contract account.

In Customizing, a company code is assigned to each company code group; this company code is responsible for automatic payment transactions. This company code is known as the "paying company code".

Standard Company Code - Company code that is used for postings where no other company code can be determined uniquely.

I think that you can assign your two company codes to a single group of company codes and then you can create postings for both company codes. When for a payment for instance it's no possible to determine uniquely what's the contract to be posted, the payment will posted to the standard company code.

To be able to use two company codes in different contracts under the same contract account you have to define the company codes under the same company code group.

You must configure also posting area 0030 for Company Code Clearing.

Cheers,

PS: in my previous project we were in a regulated scenario and the solution was aproved by SAP.

Edited by: Elevation on Nov 4, 2008 10:21 AM

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for reply

The problem is when contract is not active, If any balance is lying in expired contract. Those scenario's how to manage incoming payments, refunds and charges?

is there any problems further?

Krishna Kumar

Edited by: KK on Nov 4, 2008 3:59 PM

[Former Member]

Hi,

in FICA the contract MOVE-OUT date is not checked for payments and things like that, the MOVE-OUT date is ISU data. Even if the MOVE-OUT was done you can still post a payment, or a charge or anythig else to that contract.

Just in case, when you have to post a payment as a credit on account, the company code defined as standard company code in the contract account will be used, but if you then do account maintenance and assign the payment to one open item related to a contract in a different company code, the receivalbles on that company code will be affected...

Cheers,

[Former Member]

Thanks a lot