Activity Output Planning

When activity planning, you can determine the quantity-based output of one or more cost centers and activity types using different planning dimensions such as price and capacity. By creating multiple plan versions, you can compare different plan values before deciding on a final plan.

For more information about the business process for activity type planning, see Activity Type Planning.

Prerequisites

You have selected the controlling area and stored it in your user parameter.
You have made the settings for the Cost Center Manager (SAP_CO_COSTCENTER_MANAGER) role or the Internal Controller (SAP_CO_INTERNAL_CONTROLLER) role in Customizing under Controlling General Controlling Roles for NetWeaver Business Client .

Features

Application Configuration

You can use the Cost Center: Activity Output and Price Planning (FCOM_IP_CC_ACTOUTPUT01) Web Dynpro application configuration to facilitate activity output planning. For cost centers and activity types, this application configuration allows you to plan the activity output and the manual prices by fiscal year and by period. When you start planning, you can select a version, a fiscal year, a period interval, one or more cost centers, and activity types.

Planning Phases

You can choose the planning phase you what to use, for example, fiscal year or period. You can plan activity output quantities (Planned Quantity and Capacity) and manual prices (Price (Fixed) and Price (Variable)) using the controlling area currency by fiscal year or by period.

Planning by Year

Regardless of the posting period you select, the entry fields, Planned Quantity and Capacity, always represent the totals of the whole fiscal year. Entry fields Price (Fixed) and Price (Variable) contain the average period prices (total of prices for all periods divided by number of periods). The system distributes the entered value for Planned Quantity and Capacity to the selected posting periods when you save or move to another planning screen in the same stack. Due to the average computation method of entry fields Price (Fixed) and Price (Variable), all entered values are distributed in a similar way to all posting periods defined for the fiscal year.

If you change a value, the delta value of the change is distributed. The distribution is done in an analog way so if the selected posting periods have zero value, the delta value is distributed equally. Otherwise, the delta value is distributed by the ratio of period values. You can also distribute the value manually.

Caution Caution

With personalization, you can change the way the planning screens are arranged, for example, you can change the stacking so that planning screens appear below each other or in several stacks. If you change the screens so they display across several stacks and move to a screen belonging to another stack after you change yearly values, you must distribute the values manually by choosing Distribute to see the effect of a yearly value change on period distribution.

End of the caution.

Planning by Periods

When planning by period, you can change the period-based distribution of your plan value. To simplify the planning process on period level, the application configuration offers you the following planning queries:

Planning query to enter the planned quantity and capacity on a period-based level
Planning query to enter the fixed price and variable price on a period-based level
Planning query to enter the planned quantity, capacity, fixed price, and variable price on a period-based level

Using the appropriate query makes this period-based planning process much more transparent and easy to use.

Plan Versions

You can copy previous plans and create multiple plan versions to allow you to compare different plan values before deciding on a final plan.

You can use Copy from Reference to copy data from a reference plan to create a new version of the plan. For example, you can copy data from a plan for the previous planning period as a basis for your current planning period.

In addition, you can use Revaluate Quantities and Revaluate Prices to increase plan values by a certain percentage. For example, you can create multiple versions for the same period, use different quantities and prices in each version, and compare the versions to determine which plan gives you the largest percentage increase.