Allocation Methods for Business Processes

Description

You now have a far greater variety of business process allocations:

• Release 3.0 supported process allocation in a parallel delta version only. In Release 4.0, you can integrate business processes in the operative value flow of cost accounting.

• In addition to assessment, you can now make activity allocations. This links business processes to the following transactions:

• Process quantity planning

• Process input planning for all cost objects (cost centers, orders, projects, and so on)

• Plan reconciliation of process quantities

• Plan process price calculation on an iterative basis

• Manual process quantity allocation

• Indirect process quantity allocation in plan and actual

• Target=actual allocation

• Actual process price calculation

• Variance calculation

In addition, Release 4.0 includes the methods described in the Release Note Activity Based Costing with the Aid of the Process Template.