Reassign An SAP 4.7 Company Code

[Former Member]

We are closing down a country company code(A) and  merging all the Sales activities  into another country company code(B).

We would like to continue to keep the original country(A) Sales Organization activity separate in the other country company code(B).

Is it possible to Re assign the Sales Organization from one company to another.? 

We would leave ALL exiting financial transaction in the original company(A),  Only New FI transactions would be

posted to the other country company(B) with the Re-assigned Sales Organization.

We also understand that we can’t use the existing Plant codes and would need to create and assign  new
Plant codes.

What is the SAP Best Practice for this situation?  Any documentation links would be helpful.

A similar question  is for the Purchase Organization?

What is the SAP Best Practice for this situation?

Any documentation links would be helpful.

[Former Member]

Hello Gerald,

We are in same situation as yours as stated in your query.. We are trying to carve out a new company code for sales only function as of Oct1st'2015, and are pondering at two options mentioned below:

1. Create a new sales org and assign to new company code, and extend all the master data needed and convert open transactions

2. Change the assignment of Old Sales Org to New Company code (avoid extension of master data), and continue transacting; With potential Transaction inconsistency and reporting hassles..

Curious to know, which way your team went for providing the solution, and if SAP SLO suggested an alternate approach.

Appreciate your response!

Regards

Sagar Lagisetti

[Jensen]

Hello Sagar,

the previous answers already provide most of the information. The SAP product SAP LT does not provide an E2E solution for your request as  you look for a key-date-based solution: data to be transformed/transferred with reference to a key-date, leaving the history unchanged.

Pls. find much more Information about the product SAP LT and its possibilities here:

SAP Landscape Transformation | SAP Support Portal

If you look for detailled Consulting regarding your request, you are welcome to contact the SAP SLO Consulting Group: slo.consulting@sap.com

More Information about SAP Consulting Services in the SLO area:

www.service.sap.com/dms , pls. click on "Leverage Scenarios for buy, sell and restructure"

Best regards,

Heike Jensen

SAP SE, AGS SLO Product management

[Former Member]

Hello Sagar,

Has your company in the meantime taken a decision? Because we also looked into your second option. From an effort perspective it sounds quite attractive.

Regards,

Michael Schmenger

[former_member413267]

Hello,

basically it is possible to reassign a Sales Organization, Purchasing Organization or even plant from one company code to another. This is exactly what happens if you would apply the company code merge scenario which is available in SAP LT.

But if you would (technically) merge those company codes with SAP LT it would look like it has always been only one company code. You would not see the history until a certain key date in the “old” company code (A). So this would contradict to your requirement that you would like to leave all FI transactional data in the old company code.

Nevertheless there are other transformation approaches which could fit better to the requirements you wrote. But from my perspective there is not one Best Practice which usually fits. There are many influencing factors which require a customer & project individual evaluation.

Best Regards

Sascha Löffler

[Former Member]

Hello Gerald,

This seems to be a use case for the company code carve out solution in the SAP LT.

Whichever Org units you do not want to delete assign it to a new company code  Or exclude from the deletion. Note no. 1462004 can give you further details about this solution.

Thanks and Regards,

Tanu Mithal