Migrating company specific Cost centers/Operating units

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Hello,

I am looking for some solution proposals for the following situation:

We are looking to migrate data from an AX2009 environment to a D365 Finance environment. In the AX9 environment exists the financial dimension "Cost centers" for several legal entities. All financial dimension values seem to be company specific in AX9.
We would like to migrate/re-create these Cost centers in the Operating units form in D365 and use this for the dimension values in the new environment. The issue we encounter is that Operating Units in D365 seems to be a global record. In the AX9 environment we may have the Cost center "100" in several different companies but they all refer to different cost centers. But since the Operating units appears in all companies in D365 we can't create more than one Cost center with number 100 as the record already exists.

I would like to know if anyone has dealt with a similar scenario. Is it even viable to use Operating units when dealing with company specific Cost centers, departments, business units, etc.?
Any proposals are greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,
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Alireza Eshaghzadeh 14,610 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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RE: Migrating company specific Cost centers/Operating units

In addition to Andre feedback, you can create a cost center as a custom FD for each company that you want to use this FD (i.e Cost center_100 , Cost center_101) . Then you need to add this FD on a account structure that need to be used in this company.

I think, you can easily go with second suggestion of Andre and suspend the FD in actual companies so the FD value will be variable just in one company.

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André Arnaud de Cal... 297,320 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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RE: Migrating company specific Cost centers/Operating units

Hi Oskar,

I will start with a question. What is the reason to use the operating units? Do you have plans to use related features as organization hierarchies with these operating units?

There might be two solutions available for you:

1) Create different dimensions for the cost centers per legal entity. You can create e.g. dimensions with the name 'USMF-CC' and 'DEMF-CC' and link them via account structures and the ledger form to each legal entity. To get a friendly name on the forms, you can use the dimension translations.

2) Convert the numbers to have company specific values in the global table for organization units. E.g. 'USMF-100', 'USMF-101' and 'DEMF-100'. In this scenario, you need to specify via the account structures which values are allowed for each legal entity.

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