Note 211324-CJB1 Strategy for settlemnt to superior WBS.Why the disclaimer?

[former_member160248]

We have been requested by an SAP consultant to implement note 211324. However, there are many concerning statements throughout the note that present concern as to the future supportability of this function as well as possible. SAP is classifying this as an enhancement and expresses no "obligation...to maintain these enhancements" In addition, there is verbiage indicating that his can "dramatically increase the runtime of settlement" and that " the values in project reporting may be displayed incorrectly".

We are using this to resolve a problem in the settlement of investment projects which the note indicates "may make sense".

My question is whether anyone has actually installed this note. Have they had any problems and how did they mitigate the risk incurred by implementing a non-supported change?

Kind Regards,

David Carr

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Ideally your SAP consultant should suggest methods to mitigate such risks.

The note talks about multilevel settlement where you settle all your lower level WBS elements to top level (superior) WBS and then from there to exteranl obejct i.e., FXA

Refer below link on why -multilevel settlement is suitable for Investment Projects:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/4c/2273a946e611d189470000e829fbbd/content.htm

and why not in case of other projects (where direct settlement should be preferred):

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/4c/22739c46e611d189470000e829fbbd/content.htm

Had this note not been provided you can still go ahead and manually create the settlement rules but because of reasons like performance,data volume and hierarchy report inconsistencies best option is to follow the SAP recommendations.

Note helps to create the rules but the disclaimer for above reasons. If your CO/PS consultant is convinced enough go ahead and implement the note.

Regards

Sreenivas

PS: Interesting note though!