Senders and Receivers for Indirect Activity Allocation
Use
Sender
Senders of indirect activity allocation in the
actual and plan
are always cost objects of the category
Cost center /
Activity type . In a segment you can also activity types of category 2 (
indirect entry, indirect allocation
) or category 3 (
manual entry, indirect allocation
).
You do not always have to adopt the value of the activity type category from the activity type master. This value is only a default value, which you can overwrite in the activity type planning for each version and each fiscal year (see: Activity Type Category ).
Receiver
As with manual activity allocation, Receivers in actual indirect activity allocation can be any cost object (cost centers, orders, projects, business processes, or Real Estate Objects ).
You can use any true CO objects, with the exception of profitability segments, as receivers for indirect activity allocation in the plan (see Account Assignment for Controlling Objects ). Cost center/activity type categories, however, can not be grouped with other receiver object types in the same segment.
Note
Cost center/activity type combinations are created by the system during activity type planning.
If the receiver of the activity allocation is a cost object (such as a production order or a product cost collector), the price used for the valuation is based on the valuation variant that is connected to the cost object via the calculation variant for the current calculation. If the receiving cost object is not connected to a calculation variant for the current calculation, the plan price for the period is used for teh valuation.
Prerequisites
You have carried out
activity type planning
for all category 3 activity types for all
senders
of the category cost center/activity type, if you are using the
Posted quantities
rule.
Note
You can only plan activity quantities using activity type planning for category 3 activity types. For activity types of category 2 , this field is not ready-for-input in activity type planning. This is because the system determines the activity quantities inversely from the receiver tracing factors or using fixed quantities. In this case, the system automatically determines the corresponding planning record of cost center/activity type.
Activities
If you have already carried out activity type planning or internal activity allocation , the SAP system checks whether the activity type category matches the segment definition.
If you have not carried out activity type planning or internal activity allocation, you specify the sender activity type (activity type category 2 or 3) through the sender rule. This specification is not dependent on the default value stored in the activity type master record.
Activity type category is 1 (manual entry, manual allocation):
In this case, no indirect activity allocation is possible.
Activity type category is 2 (
indirect determination, indirect allocation
):
In this case, the segment definition can include the following combinations of sender and receiver rules:
Sender rule |
Receiver rule |
|
Any |
|
Any |
Activity type category is 3 (manual entry, indirect allocation):
The segment definition must include the sender rule
Posted quantities
and any receiver rule except
Fixed quantities
.