Account Assignment 

Use

In assembly processing the cost object is either the sales order or the project (WBS element). In most cases you use the project as the cost object. However, if you do not want to work with projects, but want to use networks, you can use the sales order as the cost object.

Features

Account Assignment Category

The account assignment category decides whether the sales order or the project is the cost object. You specify the account assignment category in the requirements class. It determines how the system treats stock quantities and values. Two indicators in the account assignment category that are important for assembly processing are:

This indicator specifies in which kind of stock the materials in the assembly order are managed. In the Project System in general these could be:

- Plant stock

- Sales order stock

- Project stock

However at present (Release 4.5B), you can only use sales order stock or general plant stock together with assembly processing. You should be able to use project stock in future releases.

The two standard requirements classes 202 and 212 for assembly processing with projects use the account assignment categories E and D respectively. Both of these categories use sales order stock.

This indicator specifies to which object costs and revenues are posted. For assembly processing in the Project System possible values are the sales order(E) or the project (P). These two options are used in account assignment categories E and D, respectively.

Restrictions

You cannot use activity assigned networks together with sales orders as cost objects in assembly processing. If you try to do, the system displays an error message. However you can use header assigned networks account with either the sales order or the project .

If a header assigned network is assigned to a WBS element, the system automatically assumes that the cost object is the project. In this case you cannot use account assignment category E.

In general, we recommend that you use account assignment category D, with the project as the cost object (requirements class 212, strategy 85 in the standard system).