Use

You have to enter data for costing, if you want to cost the activities performed at the work center. Internal activities and business processes that are used when a product is produced at the work center can be settled to the product.

Integration

The data for costing is evaluated in the CO - Controlling application. You can find further information in the documentation for Product Cost Planning (CO-PC-PCP) under Work Centers in Costing .

Features

A work center can

In this case, the work center is linked to cost center accounting , which enables you to model the processes in your company according to responsibilities and functions.

You can select activity descriptions from the following texts: Standard value key, activity types, in Customizing freely defined text ( Production -> Basic Data -> Work Center -> General Data -> Standard Value -> Process Alternative Activity Descriptions ).

If you use integrated incentive wages and logistics, then here you can define from which incentive wage earner the corresponding activity type is displayed.

You can find further information in the documentation for Cost Center Accounting (CO-OM-CCA)

In this case, the work center is linked to Activity based controlling , which enables you to model the processes in your company according to activities in a cross-function manner.

You can find further information in the documentation for Activity-Based Costing (CO-OM-ABC), particularly under Method of Quantity Consumption (Pull) .

Costing data is always entered for a certain validity period. Data that you have already entered for another valid ity period is overwritten.