Adding Cost Objects

Prerequisites

You can add fictitious cost objects to a scenario, to represent the costs of objects that do not yet exist.

To work with fictitious cost objects you must:

  • Provide an object ID and name to represent the object

  • Define costs for the object by adding cost items

The fictitious cost object exists only in the current scenario, and the original organizational plan is unaffected.

Note Note

It may be faster to change the quantity of a cost object. Changing the quantity of an object makes sense if the costs you want to add are very similar to an existing object. For further information, see Editing Quantities of Cost Objects

End of the note.

Procedure

  1. On the Change Personnel Costs: Overview Cost Object screen, choose Start of the navigation path Edit Next navigation step Create End of the navigation path

  2. The Insert Cost Object dialog box appears.

  3. Enter an object type, a ficticious and unique object ID and short text description

  4. Choose Insert

    The system warns you that the cost object is new you should maintain the cost items.

  5. Confirm the system message

Result

The system saves the fictitious cost object. You can now add cost items to the ficticious cost object, to define costs. For more information, see Adding Cost Items to Cost Objects