Static Fund Center and Commitment Item

[Former Member]

Dear All,

We have recently implemented Funds Management in our organisation and there are a few issues due to corrections in the account assignment derivation data by the user.

We have a derivation strategy that gets the Funds Center and Commitment Item values from the GL/Cost Center combination.

Now, the user frequently changes the cost center as there is little clarity with regards to which cost center should the assigned costs go to.

Now when the user enters the Cost Center and the GL the first time, the FC and CI get populated in the PR - fine till now...But when before saving the PR, he changes the cost center, the new assignment does not get picked up. The budget consumption too happens in the old fund center and commitment item corresponding to the first entered cost center / gl combination.

We ran a trace and we found that the trace has the new cost center in it, but the old funds center and commitment item, with the explanation that "None of the target fields are to be derived."

We have given account assignment as changeable in the cost center (K) account assignment. And the FC and CI are in the optional mode with the account assignment.

Is there any way by which the FC and CI value gets picked based on the latest changes and not on the last held data ? Or any user exit that might get the values from the FMDERIVE each time the data is entered and the return key hit ?

Thanks and Regards,

Wy.

[Former Member]

Hi, hope in derivation rule you set option Overwrite with new value?

[Former Member]

Dear Aleksey,

Yes, the overwrite value is set for the cost-center GL account derivation.

Thanks and Regards,

Wy.

[Former Member]

Hi. Try note 1330498

[Former Member]

Hi Aleksey,

Thanks for the note !

Looks like the note was implemented already for a previous storage location-based development.

We have now made a change to the existing path - the existing FC/CI values are deleted first and the new values picked from FMDERIVE everytime we hit 'ENTER' or 'SAVE'.

This way, every change to the PR has the FMDERIVE check, and the values are indirectly refreshed this way.

Not sure if this is the right path, but could not find a better alternative to account for the innumerable corrections to the purchasing documents that take place at our organisation.

Regards,

Wy.

[Former Member]

Delete the value of FC/CI everytime the RETURN or SAVE is done