Activity Drivers

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

It 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: In some system landscapes, the activity driver data is derived from multiple systems (such as data warehouses, timesheet systems or production systems) or entered manually. In such cases, the Activity Source field can have different values. This field is also available in reporting.

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

• Activity Driver: This field contains the unit description of the activity, for example, 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 that is used to allocate activities to courses and research fields and it uses the Activity Driver field as a unit.