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Related parties balance

Former Member
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Hi

How BCS menages with chaning Related Parties (RP) to Associated Company (AC) and vice versa and their balances.

In our case RP and AC has diffrent ID, so when AC is becoming RP than new ID value for RP is created and the same for RP when becomes AC. But the problem is how to provide reported data. Data is reported cumulative.

For example in period 01 company A reported 100 with RP1. In period 02 RP1 became AC1 so in period 04 copmany A reported 250 with AC1 (but 100 is for RP1 and should not be eliminated). Question is how does it work - BCS know that 100 is for RP1 or company A should divide balance for 100 with RP1 and 150 with AC1 ?

regards,

Pawel

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dan_sullivan
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One possibility is to create in the data model a characteristic for RP, which can then be used as a subassignment in BCS.

AC apprears to be the same as trading partner ans is therefore already provided.

In this case it will be necessary for entries to transfer balances that should be included in elimination from the old AC to the new RP.

Former Member
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Hi Pawel,

AC may be maintained in the SEM-BCS system. Or may be not. It's enough to make just one entry in the reporting period for each AC. It's not a problem to do it manually or through the FF upload.

RP, AFAIK, is not known to the system at all. And there is no a standard functionality to deal with it.

So, if you have the AC in the system (one Co ID), and the appropriate RP (the different Co ID), then, even if the solution does exist, afraid, it is going to be too complicated.

As a workaround, I see the following.

DO NOT MAINTAIN AC in the system. Just post one entry each period, as I described before.

Create some AC/RP Co codes with some attributes (might be the flag AC or RP, the alternative Co Code etc). And provide the data for such companies. It will allow you to have the AC/RP balances in the system too. Remember that they will not be consolidated (except of one entry for AC -- might be without the Co Code at all).

Hope this helps.