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Chapter 18 ■ Customizing the Controlling Module
To include important controlling components with your controlling area, you must assign the
following items:
Cost Centers: Set this field to Component Active. The cost center will remain
inactive until set to active.
Order Management: Set this to Component Active. Order management
becomes active when activated.
Commit. Management: Set this to Component Active.
AA. Activity Based Costing: If this indicator is set, primary costs can be assigned
directly to activity type of a cost center.
Projects: Set to indicator.
Sales Orders: Set to indicator.
Cost Objects: Set to indicator.
All Currencies: Set to indicator.
Save your efforts. The Information dialog box pops up stating, “Critical transport: Control Indicator
in Controlling Area. Ignore this warning. Click the Enter button to confirm.
■■Note
the warning “Critical transport: Control indicator in Controlling Area” means that you want
to transport some important controlling indicators in the controlling area, which could result in data
inconsistencies in the target system for two reasons:
If the indicator has been changed in the target system.
If you make an account assignment to cost objects in the target system.
Maintain Number Ranges for Controlling Documents
In this exercise, you will copy an existing controlling area’s number ranges and adapt them to your controlling
area number ranges. The general principle is that when a document is posted in the controlling area, the
system automatically generates a unique document number from the number ranges and assigns it to the
document. A number range is unique to a document and cannot be reused when posting another transaction.
Every document posted in a controlling area must be assigned to a number range group. For more details on
document number ranges, refer back to Chapter 3 (in the section “Defining Number Ranges”).
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Problem: As a functional consultant, your task is to maintain number ranges for
controlling documents. Your colleagues told you that it is easier to copy an existing number
range in the system rather than create your own. Your task is to copy the standard number
range from company code 1000 and adjust it to meet your requirements.
To copy predefined number ranges, follow this menu path: IMG: Controlling ➤ General Controlling ➤
Organization ➤ Maintain Number Ranges for Controlling Documents. Or use transaction code KANK. In the
CO Area field on the Number Ranges for CO Document screen, enter the controlling area code 1000 you want
to copy and then click the Copy button in the middle of the screen. The Copy: CO Area dialog box pops up.
The system will use the controlling area 1000 that you want to copy the number ranges in the From field.