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Gaurav Agarwal
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SAP S/4HANA Finance
SAP S/4HANA Incoming Sales OrdersPredictive AccountingPredictive Ledger
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The next step of continuous accounting is predictive accounting, and it makes sense to see through the future
to plan the business operations and make strategies. E.g. how much revenue organization will make based on
incoming sales order data even if no goods receipt or invoice is booked.
SAP S/4HANA 1809 has introduced predictive accounting for incoming sales orders and in this blog, I will
explain how it works, what reporting capabilities are available and how to troubleshoot issues.
(A) Availability:
Scope item 2FD (Accounting for Incoming Sales Orders) covers the predictive accounting for incoming sales
orders covering 36 countries.
(B) Customization Setup:
The setup to activate predictive accounting is quite simple and straight forward. It involves below steps:
Here a new ledger is to be created as extension ledger with type as “Prediction and Commitment” type. This
type is newly introduced in version 1809. The base ledger for this should be leading ledger, so that the report
can contain the actual data coming from leading ledger and predictive data from this extension ledger. No
manual posting should be allowed to keep a system control on this prediction ledger from audit perspective and
to avoid conflict with SAP automated process for sales order handling:
And accounting principal assigned to this extension should be same as leading ledger, as predictive accounting
is just an extension of your main reporting with forward-looking data:
2. Define Ledger Group
Path: SPRO -> Financial Accounting ® Financial Accounting Global Settings® Ledgers® Ledger® Define
Ledger Group
Here you create a new ledger group which contains only above special extension ledger created for predictive
accounting:
Here this dedicated extension ledger for predictive accounting should be maintained, so that SAP know which
one is to be used for posting of incoming sales orders:
4. Activate Predictive Accounting for Incoming Sales Orders
Path: SPRO -> Controlling ® Profitability Analysis ® Flows of Actual Values ® Transfer of Incoming Sales
Orders ® Activate Predictive Accounting for Incoming Sales Orders
For the controlling area, activate the incoming sales order with indicator “Active with date of entry”:
Here, all the billing types which you want to get considered by predictive accounting must be maintained, e.g.:
Here, all the SD item categories which you want to get considered by predictive accounting must be
maintained, e.g.:
SAP has posted to predictive ledger (0E) for PGI and Billing Simulation as shown below in table ACDOCA:
Any change in sales order impacting the PGI/Invoice simulation, will also make the adjustment postings in
prediction ledger.
Before you use the AIF monitor, make sure that you have assigned the namespace /FINPR in transaction
code /AIF/MYRECIPIENTS – Recipients of Current User (Or admin can maintain for other users using
transaction code /AIF/RECIPIENTS):
(Note: The fiori application “Message Dashboard – SAP AIF” can also be used for error monitoring as shown
below:
)
(F) Limitations:
For 3rd party direct shipment and intercompany sales within selling company, predicted costs will not
be calculated correctly because there is no simulation of goods issues:
Predictive accounting only processes SD document categories C (Order), H (Return), I (Order Without
Charge), K (Credit Memo Request), L (Debit Memo Request)
If the document split is active, offsetting entries are not reduced.
Predictive accounting does not simulate deliveries. Within customer invoice simulation, the system
always assumes order-related billing.
Customer project management and project bases services are not processed by predictive accounting.
Going through this predictive functionality, the real use cases for extension ledger are now unearthing, enabling
more predictive/ simulation capabilities for intelligent enterprise without impacting the normal set of books
represented in leading and non-leading ledgers. Time to get this included in project scope/ plan!
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