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Editor’s Note: There’s a lot to love Some Basic Facts about the In other words, if you are a new
about the new General Ledger found New G/L customer and installing mySAP
in mySAP® ERP 2005—most partic- 1. The new G/L was introduced for ERP 2005 and own a mySAP ERP
ularly, document splitting. Anurag the first time in the mySAP ERP license, there is no extra charge
Barua presents this new feature in a 2004 release (and ECC 5.0). A for using the new G/L. If you are
two-part series. In this first article, lot of the features that we will be upgrading to the new release from
he’ll give us the 411 on the new G/L discussing were available in this an earlier release, assuming you
and a quick peek at what document earlier release. There is no doubt have purchased a mySAP ERP
splitting is and what it can do for that the number scheme followed license, there is no extra charge for
you. Next time, the nitty-gritty on in these releases can get quite con- using the new G/L.
document splitting! fusing. The easiest way to remem-
ber is to follow this principle: when 3. The availability of the new G/L
someone refers to ECC 6.0, (s)he does not mean that the old (or
If your company is considering an is referring to the mySAP ERP “classic G/L” to use SAP terminol-
upgrade to mySAP ERP 2005 (and its 2005 release, and any reference ogy) G/L goes away. You can con-
core component, known as the Enter- to ECC 5.0 should be interpreted tinue using classic G/L. In fact, in
prise Core Component or ECC 6.0), as a reference to the mySAP ERP the IMG, you will see both options
you are likely to have already done a 2004 release. (the classic as well as new). They
thorough analysis of some of its most are provided within the Finan-
important features. And, if you have 2. There is no extra cost in imple- cial Accounting and Financial
upgraded to this latest release, you menting the new G/L when you Accounting (New) hierarchies.
may already be using some of these upgrade to mySAP ERP 2005 or Figure 1 illustrates this.
features. One such “key” feature is are installing it for the first time.
document splitting, which in simple
terms is the ability to split line items
in a document, based on selected
dimensions and a splitting procedure
that you configure in the IMG.