Executing Planning Overviews in Background

To execute a planning overview, from the Controlling menu (Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Activity Based Costing, and so on) choose Information system → Reports on Cost Center Accounting or Activity-Based Costing .

The planning overview is found under Planning overview

On the initial screen, choose Planning Overview → Background Processing. or Execute Multiple Times with Quick-Info Execute Multiple Times (switch +F8)

In the initial screen of the planning overview, enter the object for the report.

Depending on the planning overview, this is:

– A cost center or a cost center group

In addition, enter an activity type if you want to limit the report to a single activity type.

– A business process or a business process group.

Enter the report parameters in the selection screen.

– Fiscal year

– From/to period

– Version

Depending on the planning overview, you can select various lists to be displayed in the overview.

The standard default for all planning overviews include the lists of cost elements and statistical key figures.

Additionally, the planning overview for cost centers includes the lists of activity types, and the planning overview for business processes includes the list of process quantities.

Determine the row structure of your report. You can display the rows in the planning overview by period ( Period breakdown ) or by line item ( Line item breakdown ).

Decide whether to display cost elements planned with value 0 ( Display rows with zeros ).

Choose one of the existing variants for the column structure of your lists.

Assign a name to your background job.

Choose Execute or Planning overview → Execute

In the dialog box, enter the print parameters (printer, number of copies) for your background job, and choose Print . Your background job is now scheduled.

Release your background job.

Choose System → Own Jobs → Job overview.

Under Further selection criteria , choose Jobs without start dates .

Choose Execute .

Select your job in the job overview and choose Release .

Enter the time you want the job to run (immediately, at a given date and time, after another job, after an event, in a particular mode, based on the factory calendar, or on a periodic basis).

Choose Save .

The system executes the job at the selected time. Choose Refresh to check the status in the job overview.