Unless Fund Center Grouping is something we can do an authorization check on in ERP, we will have more work, switching to a Fund Center Grouping/Fund Center model for our spending authorizations.
In 4.6c we have the following in authorization class FI (Financial Accounting) and Objects
1- F_FICA_CTR (Funds Management Funds Center) with the fields: Activity, FM area, Funds Center.
2- F_FICA_FCD (Funds Management Fund) with fields: Activity, FM area, Fund.
3- F_FICA_FTR (Funds Management FM Account Assignment) with the fields: Activity, FM area, Fund, Funds Center, Commitment item, Authorization date.
If native SAP ERP does not provide Fund Center Grouping as one of the authorization object fields, we might be able to create a custom authorization object and place code in our user exit enhancement SAPLFMWR (FIFM User Exits for Account Assignment Block (enh.SAPLFM) to check authorizations against this custom authorization object. This is assuming that this user exit (ZXFMYU35) is still valid in ERP.
In ERP 2004, I used transaction S_BCE_68001411 (Auth. Objects According to Complex - by class) for Class FI and found the following:
F_FICA_FCG (Funds Management: Funds Center Groups) which sounds perfect except that the only fields mentioned in the authorization are Activity (FM_AUTHACT) & FM Area (FM_FIKRS) which are useless. The documentation implies it controls access to the FC Groups which makes sense given what is available as fields.
I think the reality is that we do not have an SAP standard authorization object we can use, which is going to make this much more difficult. I'm not sure what SAP standard transactions our current authorizations cover but if they are all FI transactions and nothing else, we might be able to utilize user exit SAPLFMWR (FIFM User Exits for Account Assignment Block). Currently we are using this user exit to change the activity on transactions FBV1, FBV2, FV50 & FBR2 to 07 (park) instead of SAP standard 10 (post). But we can expand its use. Below is the documentation associated with this user exit:
"You can use this enhancement to influence the account assignment derivations and authorization checks that take place in the coding block during document entry. The following component is available: EXIT_SAPLFMWR_003 Exit for authorization check during posting"
The include is ZXFMYU35.
Carolyn