Decimal Places rounding changes -Impact

[Former Member]

Hi Team ,

For addressing a requirement - request help for the below points on Display : Decimal places and Conversion : Decimal pl. rounding at CUNI :

1. As per standard SAP design for the Unit of Measure GAL -gallon, US , Decimal pl. rounding is Zero . If we need to update decimal places rounding as for example 3 , what kind of impact will be there . Does any of the sap programmes have the units /decimals hard coded ? If so how can we get the impact of change of this arrived at ?? creating a new UOM  copying GAL would be a suitable solution ?

2. We understand that the change of the Decimal pl. rounding at conversion and Decimal places at Display should go  hand in hand . If we change at decimal pl rounding then we need to get the same done at display also . 

Thanks ,

MK

[marianoc]

Hi MK,

You can maintain the decimal places rounding for you unit of measures.

Sap is prepeared to work with all the unit of measures, with or without decimal places.

Check this note for more info related to unit of measures:

362932
- Conversion with proportion/product units

I don't think SAP is going to be hardcoaded.  You could have this issue with your custom program.

I am not sure if I understand your second point. If you are asking if the decimal places and the decimal places for rounding should be the same, it is not necessary. Anyway, as you can see massively in T006, in most of the cases, units with 2 decimal places, has 2 decimal places for rounding, or 3 and 3, etc..

Kind Regards,

Mariano

[Caetano]

Hi MK

Technically speaking, you can change the decimal places rounding of an unit. Creating a new unit as a copy may be very painful, espcially if there are materials and master data already using this unit. It's a very complex procedure to change the unit of an existing material.

Also, it is very difficult to measure the impact of such change, since the unit of measure is used in almost every component/application area and there are thousands of programs using units of measures.

The only way to validate the change is to make it on a test system and ask your users to check if the process is correct, paying especial attention to the unit rounding and quantities.

BR

Caetano