In Personnel Cost Planning, you can calculate personnel costs based on the organizational structure by creating scenario groups which are grouped and administered in plan scenarios. If you have assigned cost centers to your organizational units, positions and employees and have also assigned wage elements to the cost items, you can then use this data as plan values in Controlling (CO).

When you release this data in HR, the system checks the consistency of the cost centers and cost items and due to the planning period, the system also determines the corresponding fiscal year in CO. The data transfer (including both the posting and the cancelling of data) takes place in the HR system.

Here we assign that both systems are of release 4.6A or higher.

Before you can transfer personnel costs to CO, you must have created a plan scenario. When you do this, you must make sure that you have maintained a cost center assignment for your organizational units, positions, and employees. You must also assign all your wage types and wage elements to cost items.

• Edit a plan scenario

Independent of the data selected, you can change and adapt the plan scenario. (optional)

• Release plan scenario and transfer results to CO

The system defines the fiscal year in which the planning period falls and validates the existence of the wage elements and cost items. If the data is consistent, the system posts the results to CO.

• The system posts the results to the CO system.

The prerequisites for integration is that the master data – cost centers and cost items – is distributed from CO into HR. All the read and validation accesses take place locally in the HR system. When you release a plan scenario, the system validates the cost center and cost items locally. The relevant CO fiscal year is defined by the CO system. This only applies if the CO system is release 4.0 or higher.

Once the plan scenario has been released, it can be transferred into CO. The transfer from HR to CO takes place in the HR system. Before you can doe this however, you must first create the scenarios to be released in the HR system. The data contained in the plan scenario selected, is then posted from HR into the CO version per fiscal year and cost center.