Define Cycles for Process Cost Assessment (SAP Library

Define Cycles for Process Cost Assessment

In this IMG activity, you define rules for assessing business process costs to Profitability Analysis. These rules are stored in so-called "cycles".

Activities

Define your assessment cycles. In doing so, observe the following:

1. The header of the cycle contains the parameters that are valid for the entire cycle. This includes the "sender selection type", where you specify for actual values whether you want to assess all costs together or fixed and variable costs separately.

2. The segments contain the combinations of sender processes and receiver profitability segments that are processed using a single distribution rule.

a) Specify either an assessment cost element or an allocation structure, which determines more than one assessment cost element for each cost element group. The sender processes are credited using these secondary cost elements (cost element category 42). In account-based CO-PA, the receiver profitability segments are also credited using these cost elements.

b) Specify either single value fields for the fixed and variable costs respectively, or a PA transfer structure, which determines more than one value field for each cost element group.

c) Specify the rule which you want to use to credit the sender.

Note that, for technical reasons, you can use an allocation structure or a PA transfer structure only when using sender rule "1" (posted amounts).

d) Define the tracing factor, the rule which determines how the values are distributed to the receivers. For example, you can distribute certain percentages to the different receivers or distribute using certain values (such as the quantity sold or the revenue) as an allocation base. If you choose to use an allocation base, choose the receiver rule "Variable portions".

e) Specify the senders and receivers in the "allocation characteristics".

Prerequisites

1. Activity-Based Costing must be active as an operational CO component.

2. The desired form of Profitability Analysis must be active ( Check activation flag for CO-PA).

3. You must define an internal number range for CO transaction KSPA (actual) or KSPB (plan).
Check number ranges for CO documents.

4. In Profitability Analysis, you must define a number range for record type "D" before you can assess process costs to CO-PA.
Check number ranges for actual data
Check number ranges for planning

5. To improve runtimes in process assessment, it is recommended that you use summarization levels if possible. These provide presummarized tracing factors for the receiver profitability segments.