Many users are not aware of this issue, although it’s been around for some time:
Deriving a dependant cost item from a direct cost item in an earlier period doesn’t work, if the cost object (e.g. employee) has changed its org unit since that period.This is due to the fundamental design of the planning run, which is running per org unit rather than per employee / cost object. Therefore, you can’t deal with this issue in the planning run BAdI. For most cases, the problem can be dealt with creating dummy cost items in the data collection BAdI.
A solution by SAP doesn’t seem to be planned. The issue is merely documented in note 888780. Maybe it would help, if more customers are aware of teh issue and push SAP for a solution either directly or through their respective user groups.
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