Have you tried assigning your vendors to a single alternate payee?

Here I would also like to mention that regarding number of profit centers in a system, please consider note 217338.

Hi, There are two options: Option 1 - As mentioned by Bernhard above, you need the company code to use half periods, then it would use your configuration. Option 2 - Use an Alternative Fiscal Year Variant for tax areas with 24 periods if you...

If you are on ERP 6.0 EhP 5 or above, you can turn on the business function New General Ledger Accounting 3, and use the mass processing for impairment.

You could use it for actual data too. Example - You could calculate % bonus or commission directly in COPA using a new value field based upon actual sales coming in from other modules.- Jayesh