Activtiy Drivers

This Model Table function is used to provide periodic activity drivers for the relevant activities as well as products and services.

The function defines the following fields:

• Version: You use this field to differentiate multiple planning versions.

• Posting Date: You use this field to provide plan and forecast totals on a yearly, quarterly, monthly, or even daily basis to run the profitability and cost management process.

• Activity Source: You use this field to specify different values as in some system landscapes activity driver data is retrieved from multiple systems (for example, data warehouses, timesheet systems or production systems) or entered manually.

• Activity: Activities usually stem from company internal surveys or are already defined in company internal processes.

• Activity Driver: You use this field to specify the unit description of the activity, such as pieces, hours and FTEs.

• Product and Service: You use this field to define the product or service that uses the activity value as a variable portion to allocate the activities.

• Activity Value: This field contains the key figure used to allocate activities to products and services. It uses the Activity Driver field as a unit.

• Region: You use this field to define the region which the data is related to. It is used to compare different results with regard to the geographical region (for example, U.S., Canada, Australia or European countries/regions).

• Business Unit: This field contains information about the business unit that provided the product or service.