Cheers!
Byron

Thanks for making it available.

BI-IP could certainly be the right choice in the right circumstances. Last I heard, BI-IP will have extended maintenance available through 2016. That gives companies quite a while to get to a good stable platform before going unsupported. A lot of things can change in 7 years!

I I’ve heard a few times now that BPC doesn’t deal with complexity as well as some other solutions out there. I think, as you allude, that Kris also mentioned that above. On the other hand, I have heard that Khalix is pretty good with complex models and dealing with large amounts of data. Has that been your experience with Khalix? And if you don’t mind sharing, why are you looking to replace Khalix?

Hope your search goes well.

Happy new year! Here’s to a healthy and prosperous 2009!
Byron

Well, I’ve done everything I could think of. I have searched OSS and the web and have found very little. In the IMG under cost center accounting and cost center master data you can delete inactive master data and inactive cost centers. I hesitate to use any delete function as I’m not sure what would be deleted. The information I’ve obtained does not clearly detail the process. Currently I have an active version of cost center S0820 in an analysis time frame of 01/01/1994 to 12/31/2008. When I use the icon “display mode active/inactive” I get an inactive: change status with the time frame of 12/28/1998 to 12/31/2009. I have to activate this cost center for 2009. The heirarchy falls as follows in TC OKEON (again, I’ve always used KS01 to create the cost center with reference so that I can extend a new validity period, but the company I work for now has been using the hierarchy method. I’ve never come up against this issue in the past 14 years. The heirarchy starts with “LMW Standard Hierarchy”, then it is broken down into different nodes. This one falls under S0800 “Finance & Admin” with lower four lower nodes, S0820, S0830, S0838 and S0840. The only one that was not activated for 2009 is S0820. The others are active for 2009.

I’ve used KS01 to try to create with reference and I receive the same error message “Inactive master data exists; Active maintenance is not possible” and I can’t go any further. Same error message when you attempt KS02.

My only option may be to delete the inactive master data. I’ll try to recreate the problem in our test environment to try it out before I attempt it.

Thanks for your input….much appreciated.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Linda

Getting that cost center active is going to be the key, I think. I wouldn’t think that you have to be within the activity dates for it to be active….I don’t have an idea right yet. I’ll keep thinking…If you could give a few more details on what’s happening, that may help.

For one thing, we don’t really use Cost Center hierarchies a lot (mostly profit center hierarchies). So, when you’re saying that cost centers are extended under a specific hierarchy, I’m not sure what that indicates. I wouldn’t think that the hierarchy has any impact on the cost center validity dates. So you may try using KS01 or KS02 instead of OKEON to go about that….just a thought.

Byron

Since you’re in the “cost center” world of SAP I have an issue in which you may be able to provide some guidance. Normally we do exactly what you are suggesting above when extending the validity dates of our cost centers, however, our FI person used the change hierarchy function (TC OKEON). She successfully extended the dates for all cost centers under a specific hierarchy except one. She changed to valid to date to 12/31/2009. It is now inactive. The active version is 12/28/1998 to 12/31/2008. We cannot activate the new version. We cannot change the dates at all. When I do a check on the cost center we get a message that deletion is not possbible (dependent record exists in table).

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Linda

Byron

Thanks.