Cost Planning Infotype (1015)
Definition
The Cost Planning infotype stores the data required by the system to calculate a cost scenario based on project pay.
This infotype allows you to enter information about each type of cost that contributes to labor costs, for example, employer contributions to pension plans, employee benefits, wage and salary information, and so on. This infotype is normally appended to individual jobs or positions. However, you can also append the information to work centers or organizational units.
You normally append cost data to an organizational unit or a work center only when there is a fixed or lump sum of money that cannot be applied to individual jobs or positions. For example, a sum could be allocated to an organizational unit for employee bonuses, or to a work center to fund social activities.
The different types of cost are called wage elements. You can enter a maximum of seven wage elements for each cost planning infotype record you create. (You define the wage elements when you set up your system. They are stored in the Wage Table T77KL.) For each wage element entry, you must identify the following:
As soon as wage elements are brought into Personnel Cost Planning, they are referred to as cost items.
The Cost Planning infotype is only relevant if you use the Personnel Cost Planning component and within Personnel Cost Planning. This infotype is used when you use projected pay as the basis for your cost calculations.