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Procedure documentationConfiguring Cost Centers

Procedure

Creating Cost Center Hierarchies

Labor Tracking allows you to define your cost centers in hierarchies to reflect your company's organization or chains of command and responsibilities. To create a cost center hierarchy, proceed as follows:

  1. In Cost Center Maintenance, create the parent cost center:

    1. In the Cost Center field, enter the ID for your cost center.

    2. Set cost center status to Enabled and enter default Labor Charge Code (LCC).

      Note Note

      You must create default LCC prior to creating your cost center (see Setting Up Default User LCCs).

      End of the note.

    3. Save your entries.

  2. Create the lower level cost centers, and assign each to its parent in the Parent/Rollup CC field.

Assigning Users and Supervisors to Cost Centers

To assign a user to a cost center, do the following:

  1. Retrieve the user record in User Maintenance.

  2. On the Labor Tracking tab page, in the Cost Center column, enter the name of the cost center.

To assign a supervisor to a cost center, do the following:

  1. Retrieve the supervisor’s user record in User Maintenance.

  2. Enter the name of the cost center in the Supervised CCS column on the Supervisor tab page in the User Maintenance activity.

A cost center can have more than one supervisor.