The validation of cost centres is necessary when using internal and external cost centres and when using an interface to SAP that transmits the cost centres. The validation ensures that invoices cannot be settled to an incorrect or invalid cost centre, e.g. due to a typing error. I.e. SIHOT.PMS imports the cost centres from SAP and links them with the invoice holder. When selecting a cost centres, SIHOT checks that a valid record has been entered.
The import received by SIHOT always contains all valid cost centres. The imported data is compared with the existing data in SIHOT and any discrepancies (i.e. cost centres that exist in SIHOT but have not been sent through by SAP) are marked as “invalid”.