Unlock CO internal Order

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I have a few qns on internal Orders:

1. If i collectively process (KOK4) all CO internal orders of a particular order type , and unlock all these orders :

what exactly will i be doing? I mean - can these orders be flagged for deletion now that they are unlocked?

2. Also - whats the functional reason for locking an internal order?

3. Can I unlock and flag delete an internal order without causing any FI impact on orders which have been created way back in the past - say 2 or 3 fiscal year previously?

Thanks,

Janani

[Former Member]

Hi,

Good evening and greetings,

Hope you would have gone through SAP OSS note.

Answer to your question no.2

The functional reason for locking an internal order is to restrict posting to the internal order...In an ideal SAP scenario, the internal order can act as replacement to Project System module if the same is not implemented...The budgets are worked out Internal Order level and controlled through posting the actual cost to the internal order and once the actual touches the budgetted value it will not allow any posting to internal order...I can give you a scenario, say for example it is planned to build a shed for production operations and i have budget of £10000 for the same...the actual cost starts flowing into the internal order and in the middle of construction, if the management decides to hold the construction for reasons, they would temporarily block the internal so that nobody can place a purchase order or goods receipt or any other process on the same and once they decide to go ahead with the construction again they would unlock the same and go ahead with production...this is the functional reason for the same.

Answer to question no.3

Ideally speaking there cannot be a scenario where we can have an impact between FI and CO on account of internal order as you cannot post any accounting entry with the Internal Order as Additional Account Assignment object if it is blocked for posting.

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Ramesh Padmanabhan

[Former Member]

Hello Janani,

Interesting question! the functional background...

a. Internal order as we know is one of the cost objects at the time of postings in FI. This is to track the expenses and analyse for internal reporting.

b. the reason we create an internal order is to track impact of the costs because of some special occurrence. supposing i want to track the costs on a TRADE FAIR., then i create it as an internal order.

c. now, when the purpose i would have to lock it, or else what would happen is the accountants would be still posting to the wrong cost object.

this functionally would be wrong., because the internal order should stop receiving costs. hence to prevent this mishappenning we can lock it.

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Anantha

[Former Member]

By locking the Internal Order, no transactions, including payroll, will be allowed to process against the Internal Order.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Good afternoon and greetings,

Please go through the following SAP OSS Note

Note 182140 - Internal order: Deleting the logical system

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Ramesh Padmanabhan