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Practice SAP KS01 — Record a Cost Center (KS01)

Create cost center MKT-1000 — the exact transaction LSMW records, then replays for every row in your file. Work through it below in a simulated KS01 screen: pick the wrong value and you get the error a real SAP system would give you.

KS01

Record a Cost Center (KS01)

· Data Migration (LSMW)

Create cost center MKT-1000 — the exact transaction LSMW records, then replays for every row in your file.

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Guided

Step 1: Enter KS01 — Create Cost Center. This is the transaction you RECORD in LSMW.

Create Cost Center: Basic Screen

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Cost Center *

Valid From *

Valid To *

Name *

CCtr Category *

Hierarchy Area

Client 100 | Company Code 1000 | S/4HANA

What you will do in KS01

01Enter KS01 — Create Cost Center. This is the transaction you RECORD in LSMW.
02Enter the cost center key: MKT-1000.
03Set the Valid-From date. It has to make sense against the Valid-To (31.12.9999).
04Set Valid-To to 31.12.9999 (open-ended).
05Enter the name: Marketing.
06Choose the Cost Center Category.
07Assign the standard hierarchy area H1000.
08Click Save to create the cost center.

SAP errors this simulation teaches

Pick the wrong option and SAP answers the way it would on a real system. Learning to read these is most of the job.

Valid-from date is after the valid-to date
Cost center category Z does not exist

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