Welcome to the first issue of the FI/CO Expert newsletter and to this column, where I’ll share tips and tricks from SAP experts, including SAP product managers and SAP consultants. The tips on the next page are hard-earned lessons from the trenches — i.e., lessons garnered from working closely with our customers on the front lines (as opposed to back in the labs). They provide invaluable inside information on ways to utilize and expand the current capabilities of your FI/CO. In this first column, the tips and tricks are from Tom Spetnagel, a former SAP FI/CO platinum consultant with five years of CO consulting experience. Tom is currently on assignment as a senior FI/CO configurator. You can reach him at thomas_spetnagel@coxtarget.com.

Tips on Using Some FI/CO-Relevant Programs

If you’ve spent as much time wading through the huge offering of SAP OSS notes as I have, you’ve probably noticed a plethora of useful standard-delivered programs that are not accessible through menu paths. Here are a few FI/CO-relevant programs I have “discovered,” which you might find fun or useful. They normally have to be run with SE38 or SA38. I hope you find these tips helpful.

If you know of additional SECRET / FUN / FANCY / COOL PROGRAMS that I have not listed here, please forward them on to me. Happy SAP-ing!

General Programs

• RKACSHOW [OSS note 28145] – shows the table entries in all the CO tables for any cost object 
• RGRWSUBMIT [OSS note 175709] – executes ReportPainter report groups in the background and attaches variants to report trees
• SAPKKA12 [OSS note 350290] – sets sales order items to status ‘Closed’ to speed up month-
  end results analysis and settlement in a make-to-order environment
• SDVBUK00 [OSS note 88511] – “updates/corrects the status, document flow, and ncompletion log” for the items on any sales order
• SDSTATU1 [OSS note 52546] – lists sales order items with incorrect or missing status objects (SDSTATU2 fixes the items) 

COPA-Relevant Programs

• RKECADL1 [OSS note 126937] – executes a “logical deletion” of incorrect line items from COPA
• RKEDELE1 [OSS note 69370] – executes a “physical deletion” of incorrect line items from COPA [danger!]
• tcode KE4SFI [OSS note 69370] – reimports FI documents (journal entries) into COPA
• RKEREO31 [OSS notes 7969 and 93051] – rebuilds COPA summary records (CE3 data) from line items (CE1 data) [danger!]
• ZZERGOBJ [OSS note 79847] – redetermines/updates profitability segment for sales order items [must be downloaded from the OSS note]
• RKEDEL01, RKEDEL03, RKEREOFC [OSS note 106314] – deleting obsolete operating concerns, for certain R/3 releases
• RKETRER* [OSS note 136216] – several fancy programs to speed up COPA summarization level build times (check ’em out!)

In addition, note 127334 contains information about optimizing the CE4 table in COPA (cleaning out old or obsolete profitability segments).

Note 113050 contains information about repairing the CE4 table in COPA after it has been corrupted.