Periodic Integration

Integration and Periodic Processing:

In this chapter I point out the periodic process that run across modules and the organisation structure relationships that can be defined by the setup of the periodic process. This is taking an 'integration' perspective and therefore does not include periodic processes within all modules (that is addressed on a module by module basis).

Module to Module	Process	Comment
HR-Payroll to FI & CO	Payroll Run	Posts payroll (salary, wages, expenses, bonus etc) related costs to the appropriate GL accounts and cost collectors (cost centres, projects etc).
MM to FI & CO	Inventory Revaluation	Any changes to Stock Valuations
PP to FI	Work in Process
PP to FI & CO-PA	Production Variances	Posts variances from the production (product cost) estimates or standards to the GL accounts and to Profitability Analysis if real costs are required (vs standard costs). Standard cost figures would have been used to update Stock and Cost of Goods sold figures when finished stock was issued from the production runs.
CO to CO-PA	Assessments	Allocates costs from cost centres to profitability segments
AA to FI & CO	Depreciation	Posts asset depreciation values to the GL accounts and to the owning cost centres.
FI to PCA	Profit Centre adjustment	Required if profit centres could not always be determined (as with taxes etc); same as business area adjustment
FI to PCA	Transfer of Balance Sheet Items	Posts periodic 'point in time' balances to profit centres for 'return on investment' type reporting (optional)
FI to PCA or CO-PA	Profitability Segment adjustment	Required if cash discount and exchange rate differences posted after revenue had already gone to CO-PA, is required to be in CO-PA too.
CO to FI	Reconciliation Adjustments	Only required if You have allowed the use of cost transfer or repost transactions, periodic reposting or distributions in CO and, you wish to reconcile CO to FI

Periodic Processes can also define some relationships between organisation elements. These are largely in the CO area.

Possible Organisation structure relationships in periodic processes that are not already covered in master data.
Module	Sender	Receiver	Periodic Process
CO	internal order maintenance order CO production order capital-investment order network header network activity cost object production order sales order,make-to-order production project settlement order item	G/L account cost center orders project asset network activity profitability segment sales order cost object order item	Settlement of costs and/or revenues periodically or at end of order specified by sender to one or many receivers.	See settlement configuration documentation in IMG for details and notes on restrictions
CO	one or many of : Cost centers, orders, WBS elements, and cost objects per allocation segment.	Configurable - basically single values or groups of CO objects (cost centres etc)	Cost Assessment, Distribution or Periodic reposting. This can be done for Processes (In activity based costing) too. This is not the same as activity allocation below.	See allocations configuration documentation in IMG for details and notes on restrictions
CO	Cost Centre	Cost Centres and/or Orders	Activity Allocation - passes costs on using activity quantities	See IMG - this is a large area.

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Integration and Periodic Processing: