Web Cockpit: My Cost Centers – Current Situation (SAP Library

Web Cockpit: My Cost Centers – Current Situation

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

This Web Cockpit contains five reports for the cost center manager that provide information on the current plan-actual situation of the cost centers. 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).

See also: WEB: Personalization.

The initial screen shows a cost element report with a graphic. It displays the actual and planned costs of the last period, the variances, and the statistical key figures for the time frame.

The report first displays cumulative data for your cost centers. You can restrict the report to an individual cost center by selecting the cost center from the selection list in the report header. Selecting a filter value in this way is only possible in the initial report.

You can navigate to detailed reports on travel expenses, personnel costs, depreciation, and purchase orders using the navigation bar at the top of the report. The filter for cost centers is taken from the initial report.

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.

Navigation

Information on navigating in the reports can be found under Navigation and Navigation Functions.

Queries Utilized

The Web Cockpit comprises the following queries:

Initial Report

Web: My Cost Centers – Plan/Actual – Current and YTD

Web: My Cost Centers – Key Figures – Current and YTD

Web: My Cost Centers – Plan/Actual – YTD Graphic

Web:My Cost Centers – Plan/Actual – Quarterly

Web: My Cost Centers – Key Figures – Quarterly

Travel Expenses

Web: My Cost Centers – Travel Expenses – Detail

Web: My Cost Centers – Travel Expenses – Current

Web:My Cost Centers – Travel Planning – Current

Web: My Cost Centers – Travel Expenses – Year

Web:My Cost Centers – Travel Expenses – Quarterly

Web: My Cost Centers – Travel Expenses – Last 12 Months

Personnel Costs

Web: My Cost Centers – Education and Training Costs – Year

Web:My Cost Centers – Education and Training Costs – Quarterly

Web: My Cost Centers – Education and Training Costs – Current

Web: Personal Costs for Current Fiscal Year

Web: Personal Costs for Last Posting Period

Web: Personal Costs for Current Fiscal Year (Quarters)

Depreciations

Web: My Cost Centers – Depreciation – Quarterly

Web: My Cost Centers – Depreciation – Current Situation

Web: My Cost Centers – Depreciation – YTD

Web: My Cost Centers – Depreciation – Top 5 Last Period

Purchase Orders

Web: My Cost Centers – Procurement Data – Quarterly

Web: My Cost Centers – Procurement Data – Current and YTD

HTML Templates

*HTML templates for the Web Cockpit My Cost Centers – Current Situation:*
Description	Template name
FRAMESET for filling the Cockpit	costctr_start
Navigation bar	costctr_links
Detailed Report:		Contains items of the queries
Cost Centers Plan-Actual Comparison Previous Period	cc_actual	Web: My Cost Centers – Plan/Actual – Current and YTD	Web: My Cost Centers – Plan/Actual – YTD Graphic
Cost Centers Plan-Actual Comparison Current Year	cc_ytd	Web: My Cost Centers – Plan/Actual – Current and YTD	Web: My Cost Centers – Plan/Actual – YTD Graphic
Cost Centers Plan-Actual Comparison Last Four Quarters	cc_q4	Web: My Cost Centers – Plan/Actual – Quarterly	Web: My Cost Centers – Travel Planning – Current
Cost Centers Travel Expenses Previous Period	travel_cc_actual	Web: My Cost Centers – Travel Expenses – Current
Cost Centers Travel Expenses Current Year	travel_cc_ytd	Web: My Cost Centers – Travel Expenses – Year
Cost Centers Travel Expenses Last Four Quarters	travel_cc_q4	Web: My Cost Centers – Travel Expenses – Quarterly
Cost Centers Travel Expenses Details	travel_details	Web: My Cost Centers – Travel Expenses – Detail
Cost Centers Personnel Costs Previous Period	personnel_cc_actual	Personal Costs for Last Posting Period	Web: My Cost Centers – Education and Training Costs – Current
Cost Centers Personnel Costs Current Year	personnel_cc_ytd	Personal Costs for Current Fiscal Year Personal Costs for Current Fiscal Year( By Quarter)	Web: My Cost Centers – Education and Training Costs – Year
Cost Centers Personnel Costs Last Four Quarters	personnel_cc_q4	Web: My Cost Centers – Personnel Costs – Quarterly	Web: My Cost Centers – Education and Training Costs – Quarterly
Cost Centers Depreciation Previous Period	assets_cc_actual	Web: My Cost Centers – Depreciation – Current Situation	Web: My Cost Centers – Depreciation – Top 5 Last Period
Cost Centers Depreciation Current Year	assets_cc_ytd	Web: My Cost Centers – Depreciation – YTD
Cost Centers Depreciation Last Four Quarters	assets_cc_q4	Web: My Cost Centers – Depreciation – Quarterly
Cost Centers Procurement Data Previous Period	BBP_cc_actual	Web: My Cost Centers – Procurement Data – Current and YTD
Cost Centers Procurement Data Current Year	BBP_cc_ytd	Web: My Cost Centers – Procurement Data – Current and YTD
Cost Centers Procurement Data Last Four Quarters	BBP_cc_q4	Web: My Cost Centers – Procurement Data – Quarterly

Enhancing the BW Web Cockpit

Adding your own cost center reports can enhance the cockpit.

Note

The selection of report objects through assigned cost centers does not necessarily reflect the actual account assignment information of the posted costs. Consequently, variances between the cost element report and the supplementary reports are unavoidable.

Create your own query. (For example, copy an existing query that meets your requirements.)

Modify this query and add the cost center to the user-defined characteristics (if it does not already exist).

For the cost center, choose a suitable variable that reads the personalization for the info object 0COSTCENTER (see also Personalization).

Save the query and one or more suitable views for the query.

Generate HTML items for these views in the Web Publisher (table, chart, filter, ...).

Copy one of the above HTML templates, such as travel_cc_actual. The name of the new template must end with cc_actual, cc_q4, or cc_ytd (example: personnel_cc_plan).

Replace HTML items in the template with the HTML items of the new query, and delete the superfluous HTML items.

The following items are needed in the template for navigation purposes, even though they are not displayed:

In the input element FILTER_CCTR (see also example):

Filter (item type filter) for characteristic cost center (info object for cost center that is used in the query) with the following attributes:

Attributes	Value	Description
Name (NAME)	FILTER_COSTCTR	Logical name of element, change default value of Web publisher if necessary.
Output values without labeling (ONLY_VALUES)	X	Filter values are displayed without formatting, separated by semicolons.
Display of filter value (PRESENTATION)	KEY	The filter value is displayed as a text or as a key.

Example

<input type="hidden" name="FILTER_CCTR" value="

<object>

<param name='OWNER' value='SAP_BW'>

<param name='CMD' value='GET_ITEM'>

<param name='NAME' value='FILTER_COSTCTR'>

<param name='ITEM_CLASS' value='CL_RSR_WWW_ITEM_FILTER'>

<param name='DATA_PROVIDER' value='travel_ytd'>

<param name='ITEM_FILTER_IOBJNM' value='0EMPLOYEE__0MAST_CCTR'>

<param name='PRESENTATION' value='KEY'>

ITEM :FILTER_COSTCTR

</object>

">

In the input element TEXT_CCTR (see also example):

Filter (item type filter) for characteristic cost center (info object for cost center that is used in the query) with the following attributes:

Attributes	Value	Description
Name (NAME)	FILTER_COSTCTR_1	Logical name of element, change default value of Web publisher if necessary.
Output values without labeling (ONLY_VALUES)	X	Filter values are displayed without formatting, separated by semicolons.
Display of filter value (PRESENTATION)	TEXT	The filter value is displayed as a text or as a key.

Example

<input type="hidden" name="TEXT_CCTR" value="

<object>

<param name='OWNER' value='SAP_BW'>

<param name='CMD' value='GET_ITEM'>

<param name='NAME' value='FILTER_COSTCTR_1'>

<param name='ITEM_CLASS' value='CL_RSR_WWW_ITEM_FILTER'>

<param name='DATA_PROVIDER' value='travel_ytd'>

<param name='ITEM_FILTER_IOBJNM' value='0EMPLOYEE__0MAST_CCTR'>

<param name='PRESENTATION' value='TEXT'>

ITEM :FILTER_COSTCTR

</object>

">

Caution

Do not make any changes to the structure of the template, and do not delete any <input type="hidden"...> parameters, since these are necessary for navigation.

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

For more information on the enhancement, see: Enhancing Web Cockpits (for example,. My Cost Centers – Planning)