Fund and Fund center auto update in Asset master data?

[atif_amin]

hello Experts,

We have made derivation rule using asset class, cost center & posting date as source fields as required to fulfill client's requirement. While creating asset master data, fund & fund center is not auto populated when cost center is entered. This is because we have not yet given posting date but when acquisition is made for that asset then asset master data should be populated with fund and fund center. I have run the scenario but asset master data is not updated. Is there any check to activate for this? or I have to manually update asset master data?

Please guide me in this matter.

Regards,

Atif

[iklovski]

Hi,

I'm not quite sure why 'posting date' is listed in your source fields. What logic do you base on this field?

Anyway, as you saw by yourself, you cannot expect the system trigger this rule during master data creation. Further, during acquisition, derivation would work for logistic/financial document and not for already posted master data. You should exclude 'posting date' from the rule, which is responsible for master data.

Regards,

Eli

[atif_amin]

Hi Eli,

We have created funds as Capex-jan, Capex-feb etc. To derive Capex-jan, we have used posting date in derivation rules, which is as follows:

Asset class + cost center + posting date = Fund + fund center + commitment item

Fund is derived using posting date, which we checked by activating trace.

Now we are facing an issue when we tested a scenario. Asset master data is not updated with fund and fund center after acquisition. I understand that derivation would work for logistic/financial document but is there any solution for this so that fund and fund center is updated in asset master data when acquisition is made?

Regards,

Atif amin

[iklovski]

No. Putting posting date in the business rule won't trigger it during asset master creation, the only event (+ modification, of course) upon which FM assignment could be updated in the asset master data. Posting an acquisition could not serve as triggering event.

Think of reading asset master data and taking some other date field, but coming from asset and which is filled upon creation. You can access the master data using FMDT_READ_MD_ASSET funciton, for example.