Authorizations for CO-OM Areas of Responsibility 

Use

In Cost Center Accounting and internal orders, you can issue authorizations not only for individual cost centers but also for CO-OM responsibility areas.

A CO-OM area of responsibility consists of one or more cost centers, or one or more nodes of the standard hierarchy for Cost Center Accounting.

If you issue authorization for a node in the standard hierarchy for Cost Center Accounting, this authorization is valid for all lower-level nodes and cost centers. You do not need to issue separate authorizations for nodes and individual cost centers.

If you issue authorization for nodes of alternative cost center hierarchies, this authorization is valid only for the name of the node. For example, you can use this authorization in a summarization report to display totals for all cost centers beneath the node.

The authorization concept enables you to easily issue detailed and general authorizations.

Enhancements for Internal Orders:

A CO-OM area of responsibility can also be represented by one or more internal orders. The orders are assigned to the standard hierarchy for Cost Center Accounting using the responsible cost center. If you issue authorization for one node of the standard hierarchy for Cost Center Accounting, this is also valid for all the orders assigned to the given cost center.

Where orders do not have a responsible cost center, the CO-OM responsibility area only consists of the order itself. No other CO-OM responsibility area can be assigned at a level above this responsibility area.

 

 

Features

For a CO-OM area of responsibility, you can issue authorizations for maintaining cost center master data, manual cost center planning, and for cost center reports.

For example, you can authorize the person responsible for a cost center to plan cost centers in their CO-OM area of responsibility, or to display reports for these cost centers.

You cannot issue authorizations for one CO-OM responsibility area for allocations in planning and for actual postings.

Activities

The authorization check determines whether the user is authorized to execute the given action for the cost center, or for the nodes in the standard hierarchy for Cost Center Accounting. If this authorization is missing, the system checks the authorizations within the standard hierarchy for each of the higher-level nodes. If such a node is found, the user has authorization for all of the lower-level nodes and cost centers. If no such node is found up to the top node of the hierarchy, the user cannot carry out the action.

For other hierarchies, only the authorization for the node itself is checked. If this authorization is missing, the user cannot carry out the activity.

Enhancements for Internal Orders:

For internal orders, the system first checks whether the user is authorized to execute the action for the order.

If this authorization is missing, no additional checks are made for orders without a responsible cost center. For orders with a responsible cost center, the system checks for authorization for the CO-OM responsibility area of the responsible cost center. If this authorization is missing, the system continues to check within the standard hierarchy for Cost Center Accounting, but using the authorization objects for internal orders.

See also:

General Authorization Objects for Cost Center Accounting

General Authorization Objects for Internal Orders