Assign GL accounts to the product categories

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

We are on 4.0, and classic scenario.

We are facing a problem regarding finding the relevant G/L account on behalf of a product category in SRM.

Example:

For product category 10101500, the user should have the possibility for assigning G/L account:

29000000

29000001

29000002

In our system a user creates a shopping cart. The user choose a product category, 10101500, on behalf of this product category, the user should have the possibility for choosing the different G/L accounts, 29000000, 29000001 or 29000002. When the user has the different G/L accounts on screen, the user can choose the relevant one into the shopping cart. Are there any experts who have worked with this kind of issue?

Best regards Kim

[laurent_burtaire]

Hello Kim,

Process you are describing is not standard.

If you look at following path in SPRO:

SAP Implementation Guide -> Supplier Relationship Management -> SRM Server -> Cross-Application Basic Settings -> Account Assignment -> Define G/L Account for Product Categoriey and Account Assignment Category

you will see that G/L Account number is assigned to one product category ID with one system source (for product category) and one account assignment category.

So, the only way to be able to select different G/L account number for same product category is to give for each G/L account a different account assignment category.

Nevertheless, this has to be checked to know:

1- if it can work technically in SRM,

2- but especially if Controlling functional team agrees.

An alternative solution would be to use BAdI BBP_DETERMINE_ACCT: instead of giving choice to user to select himself G/L account, determine directly G/L value according to functional rule(s) given by Controlling team.

Regards.

Laurent.