Planning Cost Centers/Activity Types And Business Processes
Planning Cost Centers/Activity Types And Business Processes
Technical Name: SAP_CO_OM_PLAN_ABM
Activities
Planning activities for
cost centers/activity types and business processes are summarized in this role.Manual planning
Manual planning
is used for the direct planning of the input (of activity) and output of cost centers/activity types and business processes. However, you must know the corresponding quantities on the input and output sides. Therefore, manual planning is useful for scenarios in which these quantities can easily be determined. Manual planning means that you confirm the corresponding activity, or process plan quantities directly in actual data. Where it is too time-consuming to measure the relevant quantities, it is recommended that you use automatic planning methods.Automatic Planning
In indirect activity allocation, you define keys that are used for automatic plan allocation. Indirect activity allocation uses segments and cycles. In addition, if calculating the sender activity quantities involves too much time or expense, the R/3 System can determine this value inversely based on the receiver activity quantities.
The template allocation to cost centers or business processes is a method of quantity-based cost allocation using templates. You do not need to specify senders, quantities, or costs, but you can use a template to determine them online during calculation.
Overhead rates: Overhead costing is used to allocate overhead costs using percentage or quantity-based
overhead. The allocation is based on the single cost elements that are posted as overhead costs.Automatic plan reconciliation is used to check and reconcile internal activity flow. This enables you to automatically adapt all of the plan activity quantities for the sender to the scheduled receiver amounts.
Splitting assigns the activity-independent plan costs on a cost center to the individual activity types. The activity-independent costs need to be split between the activity types to enable the price of the activity units to be calculated.
In price determination, the system calculates the price in an iterative process, in which it divides the plan costs by the plan activity.
Planning aids
Formula planning on business processes:
Formula planning supports manual planning. It is particularly suitable for planning cost elements whose values can be determined using the same type of logic on many business processes.Transferring activity scheduling: In long-term, sales, or rough planning you can determine values for activity requirements, which can be transferred to Cost Center Accounting and Activity-Based Costing as plan figures for each plant.
Transfer of statistical key figures from LIS: You can transfer key figures that are already in the Logistics Information System (LIS) to cost centers or business processes regardless of activity.
By copying planning you can copy planning values from business transactions that can be manually planned. In this way, you can reuse large parts of your manual planning from the previous year for the current fiscal year, or transfer plan values within a fiscal year across different periods.
Activities In Controlling
The functions are divided into the following areas:
Integration