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