Management: Cost Centers (Regular Reports) (SAP Library

Management: Cost Centers (Regular Reports)

Technical name: SAP_BW_CO_MANAGER_COST

Topic Area

The topic area Management: Cost Reports includes regular reports of the Business Warehouse for cost centers.

For background information on the concept of roles, see Roles in Controlling.

Structure

Tasks in the Business Information Warehouse

The regular reports provide information for cost center managers.

These reports serve as an overview; unusual variances are highlighted. If the cost center manager notices unusual figures in the report, he can request an analysis from a cost management specialist. The specialist can then use the analysis reports in the Cost Center Accounting role to investigate the cause.

The reports answer questions such as the following:

Which cost centers experienced cost overruns or underruns?
What costs were incurred on the cost centers? What are the variances?

The individual tasks:

Reports on measures assigned to the cost centers (account assignment objects, internal orders, WBS elements)
Cost center reports (statistical key figures; planned costs and quantities, actual costs and quantities, target costs and quantities; prices).

Check whether the workbook is appropriate for your company in the section Use in the relevant InfoCubes:
Task Area

Task	Workbook	InfoCube
Management: Assigned Measures	Cost Center: Assigned Orders and Projects – Plan/Actual – Situation	CO-OM: Costs and Allocations (Delta Extraction)
Management: Cost Center Reports	Cost Center (Range): Statistical Key Figures – Plan/Actual – Situation	CO-OM-CCA: Statistical Key Figures
	Cost Center (Detail): Actual – Current Year/Previous Year Cost Center (Detail): Plan/Actual – Situation	CO-OM-CCA: Costs and Allocations
	Cost Center (Detail): Target/Actual – Situation	CO-OM-CCA: Activity Type Quantities and Prices CO-OM-CCA: Costs and Allocations
	Cost Center (Detail): Planning – Current Year/Previous Year	CO-OM-CCA: Statistical Key Figures CO-OM-CCA: Activity Type Quantities and Prices CO-OM-CCA: Costs and Allocations

Integration

Roles are also available for the following topic areas in Controlling:

Management: Plant Controlling (Regular Reports)

Cost Center Accounting

Internal Orders

Inventory Valuation

Product Cost Planning

Production Cost Management