Assess Cost Center Costs / Process Costs (SAP Library

Assess Cost Center Costs / Process Costs

You can assess both plan and actual cost center costs and process costs to profitability segments as part of your period-end closing activities.

Example

You can assign the costs of your sales cost centers to the customer groups and regions for which those cost centers are responsible. You can assess specific percentages of the costs or absolute amounts to the different customer groups and regions, or you can distribute them in proportion to certain values contained in the value fields of those segments (tracing factors).

Activities

1. Define an assessment cycle. The cycle determines:

a) The cost centers or business processes that assess the costs

b) The profitability segments that receive the costs

c) The amounts that are to be assessed

d) The tracing factors according to which the costs are distributed to the different profitability segments

2. In the cycle, you need to specify a PA transfer structure if you want to transfer different cost element groups to several value fields in costing-based CO-PA.

3. You need to specify an allocation structure if you want to credit the cost center using several assessment cost elements.

Note

You can only use PA transfer structures and allocation structures with sender rule "1" (posted amounts).