Account determination for material movement in SAP

Account determination for material movement in SAP

:- Based on requirement you can define your respective plant of company code as valuation level

This is the level at which material stocks are evaluated

Important: once set , it is not possible to switch the valuation level from plant to company code. Or vice versa

Level of valuation affect below areas in SAP

Maintainence of material master recored : account data of the material master has to be maintained for each plant or for each company.

G/L accounts in which material stocks are manged

G/L accounts to which transactions are posted in material management

In order to make the configuration with automatic posting much easier we can group several valuation areas together and assign a valuation grouping code in standard SAP it comesas valuation grouping code is active.

Now you can group together multiple valuation area to one group.

In below screenshot my plant (in other words val. Area ) are assigned to valuation group 0001

Now let’s see how accounts are determined for different movement types.

When we create a new movement type we have the assign an “ Account modification key ” under thenode “ accounting ”.

Let’s look at the standard sales order delivery movement type 601.

Transaction code : OMJJ

For the transaction /event GBB (offsetting entry for inventory posting ) following accountgrouping were assigned to the relevant movement type.

This movement type assign to schedule line

VOV 6 :

Based on that , relevant accounts will be determined during goods issue posting

This will be discussed later in this document.

Important :

For 3rd party order where you do not have a movement type assigned to the schedule line category a different setting comes into play:

Standard third party item category TAS is linkedwith schedule line “CS” under schedule line category CS you will not find any movement typeas it is not directly creating a delivery but a purchase requisition

Therefore a different field is used in schedule line category level to determine different accounts.

This is account assignment cat. Of the Purchase requisition that to be created.

Eg: schedule line category CS (no movement type but account assignment cat)

This account assignement cat is linked to the “ account modification key ”

Transaction code : OME9

For both cases (where schedule line assigned with movement type or not ) we have an account modification key this will be used to determinerelevant G/L account which needs to be posted.

Next required field to determine the account iscoming from the material master –valuation class

This is assigned in the “ accounting 1” tab in material master.

Logistic DC :

Enter your chart of accounts :

You can assign the respective G/L Account for the combination of “Valuation class” (From the Material)

Account modification key (form the movement type/schedule line) and the valuation grouping code (from plant / Company code)

In the above example system will determine G/L account 520040 for a material for a material with valuation class 3030 where valuation

grouping is 0001 and general account modification key (form movement type or from schedule line category – account assignment category)

Now in transaction OBYC you can maintain the respective G/L account for the above combination.

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