The cost center manager uses this Web Cockpit for a quick overview of the current costs on his or her internal orders.

The initial screen displays the internal orders assigned to the cost center manager’s cost centers through the responsible cost center field in the order master data. It shows the actual costs and the planned costs of the last closed period, and the variances. The five orders with the largest plan-actual variances are displayed in a graphic.

Selecting an order brings you to a detailed report. This is a hierarchical cost element report.

When the overview report is initially executed, it displays cumulative data for your cost centers. You can restrict the report to the internal orders of an individual cost center by selecting the cost center from the selection list in the report header.

If personalization is active, the reports are filtered automatically by the cost centers for which the manager is responsible (provided these were specified in the personalization settings).

You can choose between the display time frames last period, last four quarters, and current year.

This Web Cockpit can be used as a central self-service point, either alone or in conjunction with our other Web Cockpits in CO. Reports can be sent to thousands of addressees on this new distribution path. The expense and trouble of distributing reports as hard copies is no longer necessary. This lowers costs and enables current information to be accessed more quickly.

Managers can access the reports through a standard web browser – no special software is needed.

The cockpit consists of a list of orders from which you can select a single order and navigate to a detailed report on that order. The BW context menu was deactivated and the link to the detailed report was placed in the Order column in the table. This was achieved by modifying the output HTML table with the table interface (link to BW documentation) in the ABAP-OO class COOM_C02_MODIFY_TABLE. Navigation requires that the name of the template for the overview report is the same as the template for the detailed report. From the total template of the overview report, you navigate to the total template of the detailed report. The same thing applies for the year template.

All HTML templates for the overview report are checked in to the workbook My Orders – Plan/Actual – Current and YTD.

All HTML templates for the detailed reports are checked in to the workbook My Orders – Plan/Actual – Current and YTD Detail.

The templates contain the following elements:

• Selection list
• Navigation part
• Text elements
• Chart
• Data part

The navigation part of the report is embedded in a form:

<FORM name = "DDOWNBOX_1" Action = "<SAP_BW_URL DATA_PROVIDER='*'

Multi='X'>" method = post >

… Navigation …

</FORM>

This form must contain the following elements, which in some cases contain hidden parameters for navigation:

The data part of the report contains a graphic and a table:

You can also create a new template by copying a template of that workbook and replacing the HTML items. The new template can be incorporated in Cockpit navigation by modifying the new template in element PAGEID (select-option).

The HTML code of the templates contains detailed comments to assist in modifying the templates.