Significance of Division category and its configuration

[Former Member]

Hi Eveyone,

I wanted to know the Significance of division category. If I have four divisions viz Electricity, Water, Heating and Gas, can I assign all these divisions to a single division category? What will be the impact of it?

Secondly I did not get the configuration setting for Division category.

Regards

Santosh

[former_member215295]

Hi Santosh,

You can put electricity, gas, water everything under one division bu tthats not the best practice to be followed.

To determine the GL you will be using division , account determination for the charges to get posted.

Division 1 electricity ; Account determination residential customer will be going to GL 100000

Division 2 gas ; Account determination residential customer will be going to GL 200000 and there are lot more other things involved.

thanks,

VR

[former_member190606]

As mentioned, it is advisable to have multiple divisions since having multiple divisions give you a lot of flexibility which you cant have if you use a single division. Following are the advantages i can think of :

1)you can assign different GLs for different divisions

2)you can assign different tax rates for different divisions

3)you can assign different dunning procedure and so late payment surcharges for different divisions

as far as division categories are concerned i think its best practice to have different divisions assigned to different division categs.

hope that helps!

Regards,

Adil Kapadia

[Former Member]

Hi Guys

Are you referring to "Division" or to "Division Category"?

I am going to create different "Divisions" for Electricity, Water, Gas and Heating.

But I want to allocate them to a single division category.

Want to know implication of it on the functionality and process.

Regards

Santosh

[Former Member]

In short answer is NO.....................

You need separate division category for different division to create device. This help you to differentiate the division and and help in maintaining master data neat and clean..

There are some rules to follow for best practice and this is one of them.

And more likely if your organization structure indicates different divison then you should have different category to follow the hierarchy as well.

GG

[former_member811801]

Hi,

You can create & allocate division category to division in the below mentioned spro path

Utility --> Basic Setting --> Allocate division to division category

Its standard industry practice to create sepearte division & allocate it to seperate division category for gas , electricity & water.

Regards

Sachin

[Former Member]

Hi,

At the below mentioned spro path, we can allocate the division to a division category.

Utility --> Basic Setting --> Allocate division to division category

But do we have a IMG setting for create division category?

Regards

Santosh

[william_eastman]

Santosh:

No you cannot create division categories - they are supplied by SAP. For utilities they should be fully realized. They impact many other areas of the system functionality, which is why you cannot create your own. They are defined as domain SPARTYP.

If for some reason, the supplied values are insufficient, then you should create a development request.

regards,

bill.

[Former Member]

Thanks All for the response.