Financial Planning: Validation Rules blocking input for unassigned member

[sebassmit]

Hi community,

Please have a look at the following case and let me know if you have a suggestion or work-around for this!

Case

We have a classic account Financial Planning model with several dimensions: Profit Center, Cost Center, G/L Account (account dimensions), Date. Also, we configured Validation Rules for this model and would like to start planning and ultimately export the financial planning data to S/4 HANA. Planners should be able to plan data at any level, meaning that it should be possible to enter data at Profit Center level (set Cost Center to unassigned) and Cost Center level (select a Cost Center and its corresponding Profit Center). Validation rules check whether the selected level is a valid combination based on the Profit Center property in the Cost Center dimension.

The way Validation Rules determine whether unassigned is a valid combination is described as follows.

Meaning that an unassigned Cost Center is considered valid combination with a Profit Center, if there is existing combination with any other Cost Center for that certain Profit Center.

Problem

When we are planning data at Profit Center level, we have some Profit Centers that have no underlying Cost Center. Thus, the Validation Rules do not allow input. We were surprised by this, but SAP Support informed us that this designed behavior of the Validation Rules. We are looking for a workaround to be able to plan at Profit Center level while the validation rules are active.

Not sure about the following but it is possible to export data from SAC to S/4 HANA that is published to a Profit Center and unassigned Cost Center. EDIT: Confirmed by the comments.

[Susanne_Helbig]

Dear sebastian_smit,

it's possible to export plan data from SAC to ACDOCP table in S/4HANA with cost center = unassigned.
Please follow the instructions in Exporting Plan Data to SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud | SAP Help Portal, shared by Mastan.

Best regards
Susanne

[sebassmit]

Hello susannehelbig,

Thank you for reaching out!

My problem is with entering data on an unassigned Cost Center since my Validation Rules are blocking the input. This is caused by the design of validation rules. We were able to export data on Cost Center unassigned though.

Kind regards,

Sebastian

[scontran01]

We need to validate input at cost center level by controlling legal entity and profit center with a validation based in cost center and in parallel to validate input at wbs level by controlling legal entity and profit center with a validation based on wbs. Let’s say: respecting classi sap data model. The problem is that sac do not accept two rules to validate legal entity and profit center . How can sac support opex planning avoiding user to input wrong combinations? Create dedicated separated models is not one Solution because we need total opex in one single place. thanks stefano