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Financials 2013 Tip #2: Inter/intra-company configuration options in SAP

by Allison Martin

January 28, 2013

Looking for inter/intra-company configuration options in SAP? Well look no further!!

Enjoy this quick tip from Manish Dharnidharka, a Director at PwC’s presentation at Financials2013 in Las Vegas this spring : A step-by-step guide to leveraging inter- and intra-companyprocessing in SAP General Ledger”

Review a Sample Org Structure

As shown in the sample org structure below we have three company codes and multiple profit center/segments We will use this structure to show various inter/intra-company configuration options in

SAP

Option 1 – Configured between company code 3900 and 4900

The system can be configured to create an accounting entry which automatically

generates inter-company clearing lines with the GL account during inter-companytransactions

The clearing line items will have the trading partner field filled with the partner companycode information

Option 2 – Configured between company codes 4900 and 5900

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The system can be configured to post to customer (A/R) for inter-company debit linesand vendor (A/P) for inter-company credit lines

Customer and vendor lines will have the trading partner field filled with the partnercompany code information

Option 1 – Inter-Company Clearing Lines – OBYA GL Account 194000 – Inter-company clearing account is created and used in this

configuration per the screen below Between company code 3900 and 4900

Option 1 – Resulting Accounting Entry

As you can see from the previous slide the inter-company line in each of the company

codes had the trading partner field auto populated

To achieve this create one-to-one relationship of company code and company

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Option 1 – Trading Partner

As you can see from the previous slide the inter-company line in each of the companycodes had the trading partner field auto populated

To achieve this create one-to-one relationship of company code and company

Option 2 – Inter-Company with Vendors and Customers

Inter-company customers and vendors are created for each pair of company codes (e.g., between company code 4900 and 5900)

As a best practice use a naming convention that helps identify inter-company customersand vendors

Assign the relevant trading partner in the master data of customer and vendor

Execute transaction code OBYA to set up Inter-company relationship (e.g., betweencompany code 4900 and 5900)

Inter-company customer and vendor must be created before this configuration



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Note: Posting key is 01 for customer and 31 for vendor

Option 2 – Resulting Accounting Entry

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