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This appendix explains how to check what release you are using and find and activate the relevant business functions.

How to Find and Activate CBusiness Functions

This book is illustrated with screenshots from test and demo systems on SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0. To know whether you can use the fea-tures described, it’s important to know which release you’re using and whether your organization has implemented the relevant business function (assuming it’s available in that release).

Release LevelsC.1

To find out what release you’re on, select System • Status. This will take you to the System: Status popup shown in Figure C.1.

The entry in the Component Version field tells us that this system is on SAP ECC 6.0, but not what enhancement package we’re on. To see the enhancement package, click on the icon under Component Version and scroll to the entry for the software component SAP_APPL, shown in Figure C.2. Here you can see that SAP_APPL is on Release 605, which tells us that this is equivalent to SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0.

Now that you know what release you’re using, you can check whether certain functions have been activated.

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System StatusFigureC.1

Release Level of SAP_APPLFigureC.2


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Enterprise Extensions and Business FunctionsC.2

The enterprise extensions and business functions are activated using Transaction SFW5. Normally end users don’t have access to this transaction, so you’ll have to talk to an administrator about activating the business function you need. Since the business function controls what menus are visible, what functions are active within a transaction, and what fi elds are shown, if the screen you see looks different from the one in this book, there’s a chance that you have not activated a business function (or that other business functions are active that were not switched on in our example).

Figure C.3 shows the warning message when you call Transaction SFW5.

Accessing the Switch FrameworkFigureC.3

The switch framework was used for the fi rst time in Release 4.7. You’ll fi nd the enterprise extensions in the fi rst folder. The business functions were used for the fi rst time in the context of enhancement packages for SAP ERP 6.0. If you’re using an industry-specifi c system, you’ll fi nd a third folder for industry enhancements (not active in our demo system).

Figure C.4 shows all the enterprise extensions. You’ll need to activate the fi nancials extensions (EA_FIN) to use the following functions described in this book.

Alternative Valuation Run (Chapter 7, Section 7.3.3) E

Revaluation of Consumption (Chapter 7, Section 7.3.2) E

Distribution of Usage Variances (Chapter 6, Section 6.2) E

Manually Change Actual Cost Component Split (Chapter 7, Section 7.3.2) E


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Valuated Quantity Structure (Chapter 2, Figure 2.21 and Chapter 6, Figure E

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Closing Cockpit (Chapter 12) E

Financials Extensions EA-FIN

Before activating the fi nancials extensions, make sure that you read the documentation carefully and talk with the rest of your Financials team, since EA_FIN also activates func-tions in Asset Accounting and Financial Accounting.

Enterprise ExtensionsFigureC.4

Now open up the Enterprise Business Functions folder. Figure C.5 shows some of the business functions in an enhancement package 5 system. Note that they’re much smaller than the enterprise extensions, where EA_FIN activates multiple functions in SAP ERP Financials. If multiple enhancements have been made to a business function over the course of several enhancement packages you’ll see two business functions with similar names, so FIN_ACC_LOCAL_CLOSE contains the enhancements to the Closing Cockpit in enhancement package 3, and FIN_ACC_LOCAL_CLOSE_2 contains the enhancements to the Closing Cockpit introduced in enhancement package 5 (see Chapter 12). Activating FIN_ACC_LOCAL_CLOSE_2 will automatically activate FIN_ACC_LOCAL_CLOSE.


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Business FunctionsFigureC.5

You’ll need to activate the following business functions to use certain features described in this book.

Business Function Description Reference Available

CO_ALLOCATIONS CO, allocations Chapter 6, Section 6.3

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ERP_NWBC_ROLES ERP, roles for SAP NetWeaver Business Client

Appendix A EhP5

FIN_ACC_LOCAL_CLOSE

Local close Chapter 12, Sections 12.1.9 and 12.2

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FIN_ACC_LOCAL_CLOSE_2

Local close 2 Chapter 12, Sections 12.1.9 and 12.2

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FIN_CO_CCMGMT CO, cost center management

Chapter 10, Section 10.2

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FIN_CO_COGM CO, parallel valuation of cost of goods manufactured

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FIN_CO_MSSBUA_NWBC

Roles for Manager Self-Service and business unit analysis

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FIN_GL_CI_3 New General Ledger Accounting 3


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FIN_MDM_ACC Financial master data management, charts of accounts


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FIN_MDM_ORG SAP Master Data Governance for Financials, organizational units


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FIN_MDM_SOA_CU SAP Master Data Governance for Financials, SOA chart of accounts


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FIN_MDM_SOA_ORG

SAP Master Data Governance for Financials, SOA organizational units


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FIN_REP_SIMPL_1 Reporting Financials Chapter 2, Chapter 8

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FIN_REP_SIMPL_2 Reporting Financials 2

Chapter 2, Chapter 8

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FIN_REP_SIMPL_3 Reporting Financials 3

Chapter 2, Chapter 8

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FIN_SSC_AIC_1 FI, enablement for financial shared services


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FIN_SSC_ISS_1 Internal Self-Services, enablement for fi nancial shared services


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LOG_EAM_OLC Operation account assignment


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LOG_MM_OM_1 Outsourced manufacturing in ERP operations

Chapter 6, Section 6.3.1

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LOG_MM_SIT Materials Management, Stock in transit and actual costing


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LOG_PP_PROD_ORDER_SPLIT

Enhancements for splitting of production order

Chapter 6, Section 6.3.1

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Business Function DetailsC.3

Transaction SFW5 contains links to much that will support your decision to activate a business function, including a release note, the relevant documentation, and a link to a test catalog that will guide you through how to test the new function.

Figure C.6 shows the test catalog for business function FIN_CO_COGM (discussed throughout Chapter 7). Clicking on the icons will take you into a description of how to test in your own system.

Test Catalog for Business Function FIN_CO_COGMFigureC.6


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SummaryC.4

Having read this chapter, you’ll know what to do if menus or screen fields refer-enced in the text are not visible in your system.


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