Controlling is divided into Overhead Cost Controlling and Product Cost Controlling.

CO-OM-CCA: Cost Center Accounting

CO-OM-OPA: Overhead Orders

CO-OM-WBS: Overhead Projects

CO-OM-ABC: Activity-Based Costing

CO-PC: Product Cost Planning

CO-PC: Cost Object Controlling

CO-PC: Actual Costing / Material Ledger / Inventory Valuation

CO-OM: Costs and Allocations (Delta Extraction) (0COOM_C02)

This Cube contains information from all areas of Overhead Cost Controlling. This allows integrated analyses across all areas.

The Cube 0COOM_C02 is supplied directly by InfoSources from R/3. You can decide whether you want to use the Cubes for the individual components (Cost Center Accounting, Overhead Orders, Overhead Projects, Activity-Based Costing) (see below), only the overall Cube, or both.

CO-OM-CCA: Costs and Allocations (0CCA_C11)

• Full costs on cost centers (plan, target, actual, etc.)
• Information on the origin of the costs (allocation partner such as material number, cost center, etc.)
• No breakdown into fixed and variable costs, or into fixed and variable costs by activity type

CO-OM-CCA: Costs and Allocations (by Activity Type) (0CCA_C02)

• Costs broken down into cost components, or costs by activity type (fixed and variable costs)

CO-OM-CCA: Activity Type Quantities and Prices (0CCA_C04)

• Activity quantities (plan, actual, target, scheduled activity, capacity)
• Activity prices (plan and actual)

CO-OM-CCA: Statistical Key Figures (0CCA_C03)

• Statistical key figures on cost centers (plan, actual)

CO-OM-OPA: Costs and Allocations (0OPA_C11)

• Full costs on internal orders (plan, target, actual, etc.)
• Information on the origin of the costs (allocation partner such as order, cost center, etc.)

CO-OM-OPA: Statistical Key Figures (0OPA_C02)

• Statistical key figures on internal orders (plan, actual)

CO-OM-WBS: Costs and Allocations (0WBS_C11)

• Full costs on overhead projects (plan, target, actual, etc.)
• Information on the origin of the costs (allocation partner such as material number, cost center, etc.)
• Fixed/variable split (breakdown) of the costs (if executed previously in R/3)

CO-OM-WBS: Statistical Key Figures (0WBS_C02)

• Statistical key figures on overhead projects (plan, actual)

CO-OM-ABC: Costs and Allocations (0ABC_C06)

• Full costs on business processes (plan, target, actual, etc.)
• Information on the origin of the costs (allocation partner such as material number, cost center, etc.)

CO-OM-ABC: Process Quantities and Prices (0ABC_C05)

• Business process quantities (plan, actual, target, scheduled quantities, capacity)
• Business process prices (plan, actual)

CO-OM-ABC: Statistical Key Figures (0ABC_C02)

• Statistical key figures on business processes (plan, actual)

CO-PC: Product Cost Planning – All Cost Estimates (0COPC_C08)

• All cost estimates saved in R/3, for costing variant, costing date, and so on (all statuses, costing purposes, etc.)

CO-PC: Product Cost Planning – Released Cost Estimates (0COPC_C09)

• All released cost estimates that changed the standard price for materials when they were released – by material and period

CO-PC: Cost Object Controlling (0PC_C01)

• Costs on cost collectors in production: production orders, process orders, run schedule headers, product cost collectors, and so on (plan costs, actual costs, target costs, settled costs, variances, results analysis data, etc.)

Inventory Valuation: Material Prices and Inventory Values (0COPC_C04)

• Inventory values
• Material prices (standard price, moving average price, balance sheet valuation prices)
• Including sales order stocks, project stocks, valuation types

CO-PC: Actual Costing/Material Ledger – Costs (0COPC_C03)

• Inventory valuation in multiple currencies and valuation views
• Valuation of procurement, consumption, and inventory at actual cost

CO-PC: Actual Costing/Material Ledger – Cost Component Split (0COPC_C09)

• Information on the cost component split

• Valuation of procurement, consumption, and inventory at actual cost

You have decided that you want to use particular Cubes. The first questions you have are: How do I get the data into the BW? Which contents do I load and when? How many InfoPackages do I need? When should I schedule them? The following guidelines apply to InfoCubes on R/3 Controlling objects:

This results in the following types of InfoPackages:

First load after installation of BW:

• If you require older cost estimates in the BW, you can load all existing cost estimates from R/3.
• Do not load any new, incomplete cost estimates. If you later load newer data of such a cost estimate, the data will exist twice in the BW.

Continuous Loading

• Load your new standard cost estimates into the BW after checking and releasing them in R/3.
• Cost estimates that do not need to be released can be loaded into the BW at any time after they have been checked in R/3.
• Be careful not to load a cost estimate twice.

First load after installation of BW:

• If the data have not been reorganized, load the data for all periods preceding the current period.
• Data for inventory valuation (R/3 table MBEW) are normally only available for the previous period and the last period of the previous year.

Continuous Loading

• Load the data once per period after the period-end close.

First load after installation of BW:

• If the data have not been reorganized, load the data for all periods preceding the current period.

Continuous Loading

The procedure depends on the data type and extraction method:

Navigation attributes are available for many characteristics of the InfoCubes. A standard selection of such attributes are active in the version shipped.

You are not, however, forced to use this standard selection. You can deactivate attributes to improve performance, for example. You can activate additional attributes that you want to use in your reports.

The InfoCubes in Controlling are partially based on R/3 tables. This enables the full flexibility of the tables (such as the R/3 CO object) to be utilized in BW. However, this made the Cubes relatively complex.

This means that the basic key figures cannot be used without restricting some of the characteristics.

A way had to be found to provide good usability despite this limitation. This was achieved by supplying the most important restricted and calculated key figures in the standard shipment. These key figures should cover a large portion of the requirements. They allow the Cubes to be used easily and immediately. For this reason you should use only the supplied restricted key figures in queries you have defined yourself, or analyze the supplied restricted key figures and modify them to suit your requirements.

If the InfoCubes were less complex and all supplied key figures had been defined as columns of the cube, this modification would not have been possible.