Understanding Ordered Conversion Programs

After you run the Control Table Workbench program (P98413) and verify that the conversion has successfully finished, you must run the ordered conversion programs. The ordered conversion programs are designed to run separately from the workbench programs so that you can control the exchange rate and the records to convert.

For example, the workbench programs do not convert amounts on records without a currency code, company, or business unit. To convert these amounts, you must run several ordered conversion programs. Alternatively, you can manually modify the records.

Each time you run an ordered conversion program, you specify a plan name in the processing option. The system uses the exchange rate that is assigned to that plan to convert amounts for all ordered conversion programs except the Multicurr Interco Conversion program (R890911EB), which uses the exchange rate in the F0015 table. You also specify which records to convert in the data selection.

Important: Do not run an ordered conversion program multiple times over the same data. Ordered conversion programs convert amounts every time you run them, regardless of whether the amounts have already been converted.

Each ordered conversion program is dependent on the successful completion of one or more other ordered conversion programs, so you must run the programs in the sequence in which they appear on the Ordered Conversion Jobs menu (G97UE90).

The ordered conversion programs are:

Configuration Management
Multicurrency Intercompany
Distribution and Product Data Management
Company Currency Codes (required)
Multicurrency Intercompany Post

You must run only the ordered conversion programs that apply to the systems that you use. All clients must run the Company Currency Codes Conversion program (R890010E).

The ordered conversion programs are described in a checklist. The checklist has one check-off (√) column to indicate that the task is complete.

Note: Run the ordered conversion programs and complete all remaining tasks in this guide in the test environment first, and then correct any data issues in both the test and production environments. Later, when you are satisfied with the results of the conversion in the test environment, complete all of the tasks again in the production environment and go live.