Costs are booked to cost center even if the account assignment is project

[former_member533179]

I have Purchase order account assigned to P. I have assigned the WBS element in the PO account assignment. WBS is not mentioned as statistical.

When I am doing the GRN, it shows both cost center and WBS in the account assignment which is not correct. This cost center is different from the one which is mentioned in the WBS element. In this way, the costs are booked in the wrong cost center.

I do not understand, Why cost center is coming up automatically when my account assignment is WBS. And from where this cost center can be picked up other than the WBS.

[JL23]

Your EKKN screenshot clearly confirms that the G/L Account and Cost Center are already in the PO, and your GR just behalves as supposed: it uses the PO information.

You need to find out why the PO has a different cost center and how it was entered.

I personally suspect that the business had a requirement and the ABAPer made it happen. Maybe some coding is wrong and causing your trouble as a side effect, maybe it was even the desired behavior and you did not get an information about this process change.

I personally would ask the person who created the PO first, as talking is easy and straight forward.

If that did not help then you obviously need to search for own made program coding, transaction ANST can help to locate it in exits and modifications.

Depending on your local procedures you may also find functional specs and change requests and their approvals in a database.

Asking the colleagues from MM support should also not be avoided and can very often get you quicker to a solution than digging in program code or incomplete.

Do a test yourself and replicate this business case to see if it happens again.