SAP Financing Commitment Creation for Positions

Purpose

You use this process if you want to map the expected financing requirement for a position in the system. The gives you an exact overview of the existing commitments in the area of personnel expenditure as early as the planning stage.

Process Flow

1. You create the position required.

You can find information on creating positions under Editing Staffing Assignments.

Ensure that the position has the status Vacant; otherwise it will not be included in commitment creation.

2. You enter the financing requirement for the position.

You can find more information under Determining Financing Requirements for Positions.

3. You create commitment for the position.

The system administrator usually plans the program for automatic commitment creation as a periodic job in Customizing of Position Budgeting and Control. This ensures that the program regularly determines the new financing for all objects that were flagged for refinancing without manual intervention.

If you want to directly check the amount of commitment the program generated for the position, you can also trigger commitment creation in the menu of Position Budgeting and Control.

Result

You have created a position and determined the financing requirement expected for it. This financing requirement is connected to the derived FM account assignments in the component Funds Management in the form of a funds commitment. Once you assign a holder to this position, the expected financing requirement can be determined by payroll simulation.