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Use

The Account Assignment Features infotype applies to organizational units and positions, and the infotype serves the following purposes:

  1. Plays a role in the assignment of cost centers to objects

    2. You need cost center assignments if you plan to use the Personnel Cost Planning component.

  2. Allows you to enter default settings helpful for Personnel Administration

These default settings help facilitate a more efficient integration of Personnel Planning and Personnel Administration.

Features

Cost Center Assignments

This infotype allows you to specify cost center-related default settings for organizational units and positions. These default settings, in turn, help the system to suggest appropriate cost center assignments for objects.

Setting defaults makes sense since they help to prevent people from entering inappropriate or contradictory information.

Cost centers are determined according to a combination of different pieces of information, for example, company codes and controlling areas. By setting defaults for these items, you can control or guide the cost centers that can be assigned to objects.

The principle of inheritance applies to account assignment defaults. For example, the defaults set for an organizational unit are inherited by underlying organizational units, as well as positions assigned to the organizational units.

If you do not want to setup defaults using the Account Assignment infotype, it is also possible to enter a single default for all organizational units, in Customizing.

Personnel Administration Defaults

This infotype allows you to apply a personnel area to an organizational unit or position. Personnel areas are used to derive several different default settings that, for example, pertain to payroll, authorities, and so on.

The inheritance principle applies to personnel areas. This means that employees automatically inherit personnel areas assigned to organizational units and positions, unless you specify otherwise.

This presents the following advantages for Personnel Administration users:

  1. Building up personnel area assignments is faster, since you don’t have to assign personnel areas to each employee.
  2. Users are less likely to make mistakes, since the system suggests the inherited values.

Specifying personnel areas presents an added benefit for customers using Personnel Planning and Personnel Administration together. Each personnel area has a company code assignment, and company codes are one of the factors used to determine cost centers. (Personnel Administration may require cost center assignments so that payroll charges can be charged back.)

This means that if you specify a personnel area, it is not necessary to complete the rest of the infotype.

 

 

 

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