Co$ta - Generic Cost Elements

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Most of the times, when costs are posted in the Co$ta dashboard outside of a Purchase Order, the driver to determine the Cost Package to allocate those costs is the Cost Element (PL account) that has been used. 

So, for all manual postings, it’s very important to select one linked to the correct Cost Package. 



Some Cost Elements are very generic and can be used for several different purposes, depending on the person who is creating the document. 

Therefore, in order to not have costs wrongly allocated to a package, it was decided that those Cost Elements would not be assigned to any Cost Package in Co$ta reports.


→ Project Team - All the automatic documents coming from Purchase Orders are being analyzed and we are updating the link Material Group vs. Cost Element, in order to replace those generic Cost Elements by the most correct ones.
→ You - For the manual postings, do not use the generic Cost Elements, as the costs not assigned to macro-packages will not be budgeted, creating a risk of missing some costs in the 2022 budget.



Which Cost Elements are impacted?

In this file (sheet FIN) you can see all the Cost Elements that are not assigned to any Cost Package. However, we made a global WW analysis and we found that the ones being used more often are the following ones:



In the same file (sheet FIN) you can filter by the Cost Package you want to impact, and select one of the existing Cost Elements.



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