Central Finance for Global Business Services

[former_member712833]

Hi all,

I have a client with 4 SAP ECC instances, with different templates, that has activated a global business service that should centralize some activities on accounting, credit management and so on. The question is: would it be possible deploy S4 Central Finance to centralize operations and write back the transactions to SAP ECC instance?
For what I have read so far S4 Central Finance has been used more as dowstream system to reconcile and consolidate the financial views but not for operational activities.

Thanks in advance for your feedback

[moshenaveh]

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[sanilbhandari]

Hello fdelrocino

There are certain operational issue like Central Credit Management, Centralized payments etc which can probably be controlled from Central instance of CFIN. However, not all entries can be posted back using standard functionality. You need to be specific of what exactly you consider as part of Operations.

The below blog and the notes mentioned may be an excellent point to start your research on what is possible and what is not possible

https://blogs.sap.com/2020/02/14/different-views-on-what-is-central-finance/

Thanks & Regards

Sanil Bhandari

[former_member712833]

Thanks Sanil, really interesting