Cost Center Summarizations 

Use

Cost center summarization enables you to condense transaction data on the cost center group level in the Cost Center Accounting component (CO-OM-CCA). The system updates the summarized data of a cost center group in its own data record in the summarization table.

You can access this data in the information system. This improves performance in the Information system.

When you execute summarization, the SAP System progresses from the lowest hierarchy area in a cost center group to the highest. For technical reasons, you must assign a representative cost center to every group node during master data maintenance (see: Representative Cost Centers).

Summarization provides the Report-Painter reports with totals records. This has the advantage of making the report runtime significantly shorter, depending on the degree of summarization, than with use of the totals records from the subordinate cost centers.

To evaluate the summarization data, you must create custom reports. The system includes sample reports in the 1RU library

You should consider carefully whether to generate an extract of the report data or execute a summarization. Summarizations generate a far greater amount of data than extract generation does (see Executing Report Painter Reports).

• If you need few reports, we recommend you periodically save the reports in background for the entire cost center hierarchy and access the extracts afterwards online (see Variation). This spares you the repeated definition of new summarization reports.