This appendix explains how to check what release you are using and find and activate the

relevant business functions.

How to Find and Activate Business 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 features described, its important to know which release youre using and whether your organization has implemented the relevant business function (assuming its available in that release).

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Release Levels

To find out what release youre 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 were 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 youre using, you can check whether certain functions have been activated.

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Figure C.1 System Status

Figure C.2 Release Level of SAP_APPL

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Enterprise Extensions and Business Functions

The enterprise extensions and business functions are activated using Transaction SFW5. Normally end users dont have access to this transaction, so youll 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 fields are shown, if the screen you see looks different from the one in this book, theres 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.

Figure C.3 Accessing the Switch Framework

The switch framework was used for the first time in Release 4.7. Youll find the enterprise extensions in the first folder. The business functions were used for the first time in the context of enhancement packages for SAP ERP 6.0. If youre using an industry-specific system, youll find a third folder for industry enhancements (not active in our demo system). Figure C.4 shows all the enterprise extensions. Youll need to activate the financials extensions (EA_FIN) to use the following functions described in this book.
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Alternative Valuation Run (Chapter 7, Section 7.3.3) Revaluation of Consumption (Chapter 7, Section 7.3.2) Distribution of Usage Variances (Chapter 6, Section 6.2) Manually Change Actual Cost Component Split (Chapter 7, Section 7.3.2)

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Valuated Quantity Structure (Chapter 2, Figure 2.21 and Chapter 6, Figure 6.23) Closing Cockpit (Chapter 12)
Financials Extensions EA-FIN Before activating the financials extensions, make sure that you read the documentation carefully and talk with the rest of your Financials team, since EA_FIN also activates functions in Asset Accounting and Financial Accounting.

Figure C.4 Enterprise Extensions

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 theyre 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 youll 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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Figure C.5 Business Functions

Youll need to activate the following business functions to use certain features described in this book.
Business Function CO_ALLOCATIONS ERP_NWBC_ROLES Description CO, allocations ERP, roles for SAP NetWeaver Business Client Local close Local close 2 Reference Chapter 6, Section 6.3 Appendix A Available EhP4 EhP5

FIN_ACC_LOCAL_ CLOSE FIN_ACC_LOCAL_ CLOSE_2

Chapter 12, Sections 12.1.9 and 12.2 Chapter 12, Sections 12.1.9 and 12.2

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Business Function FIN_CO_CCMGMT FIN_CO_COGM

Description CO, cost center management CO, parallel valuation of cost of goods manufactured Roles for Manager Self-Service and business unit analysis New General Ledger Accounting 3 Financial master data management, charts of accounts SAP Master Data Governance for Financials, organizational units SAP Master Data Governance for Financials, SOA chart of accounts SAP Master Data Governance for Financials, SOA organizational units Reporting Financials Reporting Financials 2 Reporting Financials 3 FI, enablement for financial shared services

Reference Chapter 10, Section 10.2 Chapter 7

Available EhP6 EhP5

FIN_CO_MSSBUA_ NWBC

Appendix A

EhP5

FIN_GL_CI_3 FIN_MDM_ACC

Chapter 3, Section 3.1 Chapter 9, Section 9.2 Chapter 9, Section 9.2

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FIN_MDM_ORG

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FIN_MDM_SOA_CU

Chapter 9, Section 9.2

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FIN_MDM_SOA_ ORG

Chapter 9, Section 9.2

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FIN_REP_SIMPL_1 FIN_REP_SIMPL_2 FIN_REP_SIMPL_3 FIN_SSC_AIC_1

Chapter 2, Chapter 8 Chapter 2, Chapter 8 Chapter 2, Chapter 8 Chapter 9, Section 9.4

EhP3 EhP4 EhP5 EhP5

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Business Function FIN_SSC_ISS_1

Description Internal SelfServices, enablement for financial shared services Operation account assignment Outsourced manufacturing in ERP operations Materials Management, Stock in transit and actual costing Enhancements for splitting of production order

Reference Chapter 9, Section 9.4

Available EhP5

LOG_EAM_OLC LOG_MM_OM_1

Chapter 4, Section 4.3 Chapter 6, Section 6.3.1 Chapter 6, Section 6.5

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LOG_MM_SIT

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LOG_PP_PROD_ ORDER_SPLIT

Chapter 6, Section 6.3.1

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Business Function Details

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.

Figure C.6 Test Catalog for Business Function FIN_CO_COGM

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C.4

Summary

Having read this chapter, youll know what to do if menus or screen fields referenced in the text are not visible in your system.