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Use

In cost center accounting allocations, the system allocates plan costs from sender cost centers or business processes to internal orders.

Features

Allocations of costs to an internal order are possible, regardless of the version in the plan. To do these, you need to activate integrated planning of Orders with Cost Center Accounting, and the order must be plan integrated (see also: Indicator for Integrated Planning in the Version ).

Distribution

Distribution means allocating the plan costs from a sender cost center to internal orders, according to distribution keys that you defined.

The following data is transferred to the internal orders in the process:

  • The original cost element (primary cost element) remains unchanged.

  • The sender and receiver data is documented.

For more information on the procedure for distribution, see Distribution .

Assessment

As part of plan assessment, you can use an assessment cost element to allocate costs from a sender cost center to internal orders, according to assessment keys defined by the user.

For more information on the procedure for distribution, see Periodic Reposting .

Indirect Activity Allocation

In indirect activity allocation, you define keys that you use to allocate activities and business processes to internal orders. Moreover, you can determine the activity quantities for cost centers and business processes (whose activities it is impossible, or very time consuming to determine.) indirectly .

There are two methods of processing activity allocation, depending on the category of activity type to be allocated:

  • Activities can be entered in the cost center or business process.

For some business processes or activity types, you can determine for each cost center the amount of activities carried out. You can then use indirect activity allocation to distribute these posted activity quantities from the cost centers or business processes to the receivers. You define these in the segment according to their allocation base.

  • Activities cannot be recorded in the cost center or business process, or if at all, then only with difficulty.

You can use activity calculation for activity types, whose activity quantities cannot be determined, or only with a great deal of effort.

  • Using the internal order tracing factors with weighting factors. You can define these for each cost center or business process.

  • Using fixed, preset tracing factors in the segment definition.

For more information on indirect activity allocation and procedure, see Cost Center Planning .