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C How to Find and Activate Business Functions

Controlling with SAP® ERP: Business User Guideby Janet Salmon

“The step-by-step guide for all your CO tasks!”

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This appendix explains how to check what release you are using and find and activate the relevant business functions.

This book is illustrated with screenshots from test and demo systems on

EHP 7 for SAP ERP 6.0. To know whether you can use the features described,

it’s important to know which release you’re using and whether your organi-

zation has implemented the relevant business function (assuming it’s avail-

able in that release).

Release Levels

To find out what release you’re on, select System • Status. This will take you

to the System: Status popup shown in Figure C.1.

The entry in the Component Version field tells us that this system is on EHP 7

for SAP ERP 6.0. Because an enhancement package generally comprises

multiple software packages, you should then check the entries for SAP_APPL

(all releases) and SAP_FIN (from EHP 7), because these contain the code for

controlling modules. To do this, click on the icon under Component Version

and scroll to the entries for the software components SAP_APPL and SAP_FIN,

shown in Figure C.2. Here you can see that both SAP_APPL and SAP_FIN are on

Release 617 (the SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA release). You’ll also notice

the SP-Level, which is important when you are checking whether legal

changes or some of the SAP HANA-related enhancements that we discussed

in Chapter 13 are available in your system.


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Now that you know what software release you’re using, you can check

whether certain functions have been activated.

Figure C.1 System Status


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Figure C.2 Release Level of SAP_APPL and SAP_FIN

Enterprise Extensions and Business Functions

The enterprise extensions and business functions are activated using

Transaction SFW5. Normally, end users don’t have change access to this

transaction, but many organizations allow their users to display the entries.

You’ll have to talk to an administrator about activating the business func-

tion you need, but if you have display authorization, do your homework

first. Because the business function controls what menus are visible, what

functions are active within a transaction, and what fields are shown, if the

screen you see looks different from the one in this book there’s a chance

that you have not activated a business function (or that other business

functions are active that were not switched on in our example).

Figure C.3 shows the warning message you will see when you call Transac-

tion SFW5 unless you have administrator rights.

Figure C.3 Message about Accessing the Switch Framework

The switch framework was used for the first time in Release 4.7. You’ll find

the enterprise extensions in the first folder. The business functions were


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used for the first time in the context of enhancement packages for SAP ERP

6.0. If you’re using an industry-specific system, you’ll find a third folder for

industry enhancements (not active in our demo system).

Figure C.4 shows all the enterprise extensions. You’ll need to activate the

financials extensions (EA_FIN) to use the following functions described in

this book:

� Alternative Valuation Run (Chapter 7, Section 7.3.3)

� Revaluation of Consumption (Chapter 7, Section 7.3.2)

� Distribution of Usage Variances (Chapter 6, Section 6.2)

� Manually Change Actual Cost Component Split (Chapter 7, Section 7.3.2)

� Valuated Quantity Structure (Chapter 2, Figure 2.31 and Chapter 6, Figure

6.23)

� Closing Cockpit (Chapter 12)

Financials Extensions EA_FIN

Before activating the financials extensions, make sure that you read the docu-

mentation carefully and talk with the rest of your Financials team, because EA_FIN also activates functions in Asset Accounting and Financial Accounting.

Figure C.4 Enterprise Extensions


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Now open up the Enterprise Business Functions folder. Figure C.5 shows

some of the business functions in an EHP 7 system. Note that they’re much

smaller than the enterprise extensions—for example, EA_FIN activates mul-

tiple functions in SAP ERP Financials. If multiple enhancements have been

made to a business function over the course of several enhancement pack-

ages, then you’ll see multiple business functions with similar names, so FIN_

ACC_LOCAL_CLOSE contains the enhancements to the Closing Cockpit in EHP 3,

FIN_ACC_LOCAL_CLOSE_2 contains the enhancements to the Closing Cockpit

introduced in EHP 5, and FIN_ACC_LOCAL_CLOSE_3 contains the enhancements

to the Closing Cockpit introduced in EHP 6 (see Chapter 12). Activating FIN_

ACC_LOCAL_CLOSE_3 will automatically activate FIN_ACC_LOCAL_CLOSE and FIN_ACC_

LOCAL_CLOSE_2.

Figure C.5 Business Functions

You’ll need to activate the business functions shown in Table C.1 to use cer-

tain features described in this book.


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Business Function Description Reference Available

CO_ALLOCATIONS CO, allocations Chapter 6, Section 6.3 EHP 4

ERP_NWBC_ROLES SAP ERP, roles for SAP

NetWeaver Business

Client

Appendix A EHP 5

FIN_ACC_LOCAL_CLOS Local close Chapter 12, Section 12.1.9

and Section 12.2

EHP 3

FIN_ACC_LOCAL_CLOSE_2 Local close 2 Chapter 12, Section 12.1.9

and Section 12.2

EHP 5

FIN_ACC_LOCAL_CLOSE_3 Local close 3 Chapter 12, Section 12.1.9

and Section 12.2

EHP 6

FIN_CO_CCMGMT CO, cost center man-

agement

Chapter 3, Section 3.3.1,

Chapter 5, Section 5.2.2 and

5.2.3,

Chapter 10, Section 10.2.2

EHP 6

FIN_CO_CCPLAN CO, cost center plan-

ning

Chapter 5, Section 5.1.2,


EHP 6

FIN_CO_COGM CO, parallel valuation

of cost of goods manu-

factured

Chapter 7 EHP 5

FIN_CO_MSSBUA_NWBC Roles for Manager Self-

Service and business

unit analysis

Appendix A EHP 5

FIN_CO_ORPLAN CO, order planning Chapter 5, Section 5.1.2,


EHP 6

FIN_GL_CI_3 New General Ledger

Accounting 3

Chapter 3, Section 3.1 EHP 5

FIN_MDM_ACC Financial master data

management, charts

of accounts (obsolete)


FIN_MDM_ORG SAP Master Data Gov-

ernance for Financials,

organizational units


Table C.1 Business Functions and Where to Find a Description of their Use


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FIN_MDM_SOA_CU SAP Master Data Gov-


SOA chart of accounts


FIN_MDM_SOA_ORG SAP Master Data Gov-


SOA organizational

units


FIN_REP_SIMPL_1 Reporting Financials Chapter 2, Chapter 8 EHP 3

FIN_REP_SIMPL_2 Reporting Financials 2 Chapter 2, Chapter 8 EHP 4



FIN_SSC_AIC_1 FI, enablement for

financial shared ser-

vices


FIN_SSC_ISS_1 Internal Self-Services,

enablement for finan-

cial shared services


LOG_EAM_OLC Operation account

assignment

Chapter 6, Section 6.3.5 EHP 5

LOG_MM_OM_1 Outsourced manufac-

turing in ERP opera-

tions


LOG_MM_SIT Materials Manage-

ment, stock in transit,

and actual costing


LOG_PP_PROD_ORDER_SPLIT

Enhancements for

splitting of production

order


FINS_CO_ICO_PROC_ENH_101

Intercompany Process

Enhancements 1

Chapter 14, Section 14.3.3 SAP S/4HANA

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Business Function Description Reference Available

Table C.1 Business Functions and Where to Find a Description of their Use (Cont.)


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Business Function Details

Transaction SFW5 contains links to much that will support your decision to

activate a business function, including a release note, the relevant docu-

mentation, and a link to a test catalog that will guide you through how to

test the new function.

Figure C.6 shows the test catalog for business function FIN_CO_COGM (dis-

cussed throughout Chapter 7). Clicking on the icons will take you into a

description of how to test in your own system.

Figure C.6 Test Catalog for Business Function FIN_CO_COGM

Summary

After reading this appendix, you’ll know what to do if menus or screen

fields referenced in the text are not visible in your system.

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