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So that the system can access the planned prices for the activity types in Cost Center Accounting, the work center must be linked to a cost center and the activity types defined for that cost center.

To allocate to process costs using the integration with the work center (and thus with the routing), you must enter a business process and a formula to determine the process quantity in the work center.

The following data is relevant to costing:

Cost center

A work center can only be assigned to one cost center. However, you can assign more than one work center to a cost center. For more information, see Structure link Linking Work Centers to Cost Centers.

Activity types

The standard value key determines how many activity types you can specify for each work center. For production work centers, you can specify a maximum of six activity types. For network work centers and plant maintenance work centers, you can only specify one activity type.

You create activity types in Cost Center Accounting and define, for each cost center, the costs that are charged to a product when it uses activities of this cost center. For more information, see Activity Types.

Reference indicator

Setting this indicator prevents the control key from being changed in the routing. For more information, see Structure link Reference Indicators.

Formula key

In the work center, you assign a formula key to each activity type or to the business process. This key is linked to a formula that determines how the activity input for each operation is calculated.

Formulas are used to calculate capacity requirements, lead times, and costs.

If you want to use a formula to calculate costs, you must set the Allowed for costing indicator in the definition of the formula.

You define formula keys and formulas in Customizing for Production under Basic data ® Work center ® Costing.

Example

The standard system contains formula key SAP002 Prod.: Machine time.

You see in the definition of the formula key, that

In the definition of the formula parameters you see the accompanying text (for instance SAP_02 for Machine, SAP_09 for the Operation quantity).

Business process

You can only enter one business process. The business process is transferred from the work center into the routing. For more information, see Structure link Linking Work Centers to the Business Process.

For further information, see the following sections in the SAP Library:

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