Optimize Your SAP ERP Financials Controlling Implementation

Shivesh Sharma has worked in the SAP Financials area for six years, for companies such as IBM, CSC, and Fujitsu Consulting. His areas of expertise include business process design, FI-AP, GL. AR, Banking, Asset Management, Funds Management, and Special Purpose Ledger.

1 SAP ERP Implementation ... 25 ... 1.1 ... Reasons for Implementing SAP ERP ... 25 ... 1.2 ... The SAP ERP Solution Stack ... 26 ... 1.3 ... Types of SAP Implementations ... 29 ... 1.4 ... SAP Implementation Methodologies ... 32 ... 1.5 ... SAP Best Practices Solution Set ... 40 ... 1.6 ... The Role of SAP ERP Financials and Controlling Consultants in SAP ERP Implementations ... 44 ... 1.7 ... Summary ... 47 2 Controlling: An Introduction ... 49 ... 2.1 ... Key Requirements for the SAP ERP Financials Solution ... 49 ... 2.2 ... SAP ERP Financials Direction: A Historical Perspective ... 52 ... 2.3 ... SAP ERP Financials: A Snapshot View ... 54 ... 2.4 ... SAP ERP Controlling Roadmap ... 58 ... 2.5 ... Summary ... 60 3 Choosing the Optimal Controlling Enterprise Structure ... 61 ... 3.1 ... Controlling Organizational Entities ... 62 ... 3.2 ... Assignment of Organizational Entities ... 66 ... 3.3 ... Key Controlling Mapping Decisions and Best Practices ... 71 ... 3.4 ... Summary ... 75 4 Controlling Business View ... 79 ... 4.1 ... Layers of Controlling Reporting ... 80 ... 4.2 ... Basic Confi guration Settings ... 82 ... 4.3 ... Basic Concepts in Controlling ... 87 ... 4.4 ... Procurement Process: Purchase Requisition to Check Writing ... 90 ... 4.5 ... Production Planning and Manufacturing Process Integration ... 93 ... 4.6 ... Managing Projects and Capital Budgeting Integration ... 93 ... 4.7 ... Plant Maintenance Integration ... 97 ... 4.8 ... Sales Order to Cash Application Process Integration ... 101 ... 4.9 ... Human Capital Management Integration ... 103 ... 4.10 ... Controlling and Finance Integration ... 107 ... 4.11 ... Summary ... 118 5 Optimizing Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and Internal Order Accounting ... 119 ... 5.1 ... Cost Element Accounting ... 120 ... 5.2 ... Cost Center Accounting ... 125 ... 5.3 ... Profit Center Accounting ... 158 ... 5.4 ... Internal Order Accounting ... 169 ... 5.5 ... Summary ... 187 6 Optimizing Capital Budgeting Using Investment Management 191 ... 6.1 ... Investment Management ... 192 ... 6.2 ... Investment Management Year End Closing ... 217 ... 6.3 ... Summary ... 222 7 Using Funds Management to Optimize Public Sector Budgeting ... 223 ... 7.1 ... Funds Management: An Introduction ... 224 ... 7.2 ... Basic Settings ... 227 ... 7.3 ... Master Data ... 235 ... 7.4 ... Budgeting ... 261 ... 7.5 ... Availability Control ... 274 ... 7.6 ... Integration/Actual and Commitment Update ... 287 ... 7.7 ... Closing Operations ... 295 ... 7.8 ... Summary ... 297 8 Optimizing Product Costing Decisions using Product Cost Controlling ... 301 ... 8.1 ... Product Cost Controlling: An Introduction ... 301 ... 8.2 ... Product Cost Planning ... 303 ... 8.3 ... Cost Object Controlling ... 321 ... 8.4 ... Actual Costing/Material Ledger (CO-PC-ACT) ... 347 ... 8.5 ... Summary ... 363 9 Optimizing Profitability Reporting Using Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) ... 367 ... 9.1 ... Profitability Analysis: An Introduction ... 368 ... 9.2 ... Operating Concern ... 372 ... 9.3 ... Master Data ... 382 ... 9.4 ... Flow of Actual Values: Integration of SD, MM, and Financial Accounting, with CO-PA ... 385 ... 9.5 ... Summary ... 401 10 ... Reporting in Financials and Controlling ... 403 ... 10.1 ... Reporting in SAP ERP Financials and Controlling ... 404 ... 10.2 ... SAP ERP Financials Reports ... 407 ... 10.3 ... Variants and Variables in Reporting ... 432 ... 10.4 ... Drilldown Reporting in SAP ERP Financials ... 436 ... 10.5 ... Summary ... 443 11 Concluding Remarks ... 445 Appendices ... 447 ... A ... Glossary and SAP Abbreviations ... 449 ... B ... Bibliography ... 453 ... C ... The Author ... 455