Monday, January 28, 2013, 12:59 PM Categories: Financials , Financials Reporting , General Ledger , Accounts Receivable-Accounts Payable

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 Financials 2013  in Las Vegas this spring:  A step-by-step guide to leveraging inter- and intra-company processing 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-company transactions 

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

Option 2 – Configured between company codes 4900 and 5900

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

Customer and vendor lines will have the trading partner field filled with the partner company 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

Option 1 – Trading Partner

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

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 customers and 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., between company code 4900 and 5900) 

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

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

Option 2 – Resulting Accounting Entry