FM - Release Function

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

In FM, I need to release budget of commitment item by month massively. Do you know some standar 'Release' Function?

Thanks in advance.

José Luis

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

I would suggest to have a look to the FMPEP transaction.

Or you can configure the automatic release of budget posting : each time you post, the released would be automatically done.

Regards,

Helene

[noemi_diaz-benito]

Dear José Luis,

Please, review the next link where the functionality you require is available.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/f0/ca5716260211d28a430000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

In previous releases, where this functionality is not available, you can reach the almost the same result by using a different ledger for each period.

Regards, Noemí

[Former Member]

Hi Noemi,

Your suggest is to FM or BCS?

Can you help me about using a different ledger for each period with more details?

Thanks in advance,

José Luis

Edited by: José Luis Rodríguez on Apr 7, 2010 1:05 AM

Edited by: José Luis Rodríguez on Apr 7, 2010 4:41 AM

[noemi_diaz-benito]

Dear José Luis,

I meant BCS. If you are in a lower version, it's a bit more complicated...are you sure you cannot go for EHP4?.

If the answer is not, you have to create one ledger per month, and after that, you hace to customize AVC for each ledger, the result is more or less the same, but the effort is bigger.

According to SAP documentation:

User-Specific Availability Control Ledger

However, if the use of a single AVC ledger per budget category does not

meet the requirements of your organization, you can define additional

user-specific AVC ledgers. In this case, you work with a number of

parallel AVC ledgers in one FM area/fiscal year. . In each ledger, the

budget and commitment/actual data from Funds Management can be

summarized according to ledger-specific derivation strategies for

control objects and for tolerance profiles. Each document to be posted

has to pass the AVC checks of all parallel AVC ledgers.

Note that using parallel activated availability control checks can have

a negative effect on system performance. SAP recommends that you do not

use more than three or four AVC ledgers simultaneously.

So, you may activate an user-specific AVC ledger according to your

business needs, and take care so that your derivation strategies are

not too complex to impact negatively performance.

Regards, Noemí

[Former Member]

Hi Noemi,

In this enterprise, we will have SAP ECC6 EHP4, so I may try this new functionality of BCS.

Also, do you think that in FM I may have a monthly budget control using a FUND for each month? The fund is derived from posting date.

Thanks in advance for your response.

José Luis

[noemi_diaz-benito]

Hi,

I'd work with BCS new function...if you work with fund, you will have to work with another account assignment and I think that the functionality woruld be more complex to control AVC, but, of course, it depends on your project requirements.

I hope all this information has been helpful for you.

Regards, Noemí

[Former Member]

I have a doubt.

[iklovski]

Hi,

Do you have ECC 6.04, or earlier release? If you have 4th package, then you have an object 'budget period' which will allow you to manage (and release) your budget on monthly basis. If you are on earlier release, you can do as following:

Regards,

Eli