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a. Costs vs budget/Y-1

You can select your target and choose the Budget or the previous Year.

b. Currency

Select EUR or local currency

c. Scope

3 scopes are available in Costa:

ALL : it includes all indirect spend (all costs except raw materials and utilities) / all CAPEX/OPEX/Capital leases
Anaplan Scope : It is the Budget scope and it is a subset of Co$ta perimeter. We want to focus the budget on fixed costs that are managed on a recurring basis: we exclude variable costs and non recurring costs
F2G Scope : Full for Growth scope is a subset of Anaplan scope. We exclude Internal Labor, Commission on sales and Warehouse & Log Rental

d. Interco/Non Interco

Non Interco: costs invoiced by an entity belonging to the group Solvay are excluded.
Interco: costs invoiced by an entity belonging to the group Solvay.

e. % Conso Applied / Entities at 100%

When you select % Conso Applied to display the results of operations of the concerned legal entities after applying the consolidation (integration) rate relevant for these entities.

So for instance, for a JV integrated at 50%, the costs are 50% of the original company's figures

f. OPEX/CAPEX/Leases

By default only OPEX are displayed in the dashboard but it is possible to display all costs including CAPEX ( Capital Expenditure) & Capital Leases

(A) When all buttons CAPEX-Invest/Capital Leases/OPEX have the same color (white), all costs are displayed in the dashboard
(B) When the button OPEX is blue, only OPEX is displayed
(C) When the button Capital Leases is blue, only Capital Leases are displayed

Definition of CAPEX-Invest

All costs posted in a WBS element or a PM order (*) with the type IM - CAPEX (Invest.)

(*) The value IM is determined in BW and assigned to the Order, if the cost in the Order is fully or partially settled to a WBS element type IM - CAPEX (Invest.).

g. Need Help?

If you click on the “Need Help” button, you will be directed to freshdesk platform to open a ticket. Don't hesitate to use it, should you require assistance or should you wish to report an issue such as some inaccuracies in the data.

h. Documentation

From Qlik Sense dashboard, you can access directly to this wiki

In this view, it is the YTD of the current year (330.74 MEUR) compared with the YTD of the previous year (285.6 MEUR), and the % of the variation (+15.8%) for total costs

The currency is Euro

When the number is green preceded by a down arrow ↓ costs are decreasing
When the number is red preceded by an up arrow ↑ costs are increasing

Costs industrial take to account costs of the macro packages Industrial maintenance, Industrial operations, Environmental and Engineering.

In this view, it is the YTD of the current year (739.91 MEUR) compared with the YTD of the previous year (652.45 MEUR), and the % of the variation (+13.4%) for costs industrial.

The currency is Euro

When the number is green preceded by a down arrow ↓ costs are decreasing
When the number is red preceded by an up arrow ↑ costs are increasing

View 3 - COSTS NON-INDUSTRIAL €

Costs non-industrial take to account costs of the macro packages: People, Communication, Consulting Services, Facility, Financial Services, Human Ressources Services, IT and Telecom, Legal Services, Mobility and Meetings, Non Purchasing, R&I Services and Goods.

In this view, it is the YTD of the current year (573.37 MEUR) compared with the YTD of the previous year (537.46 MEUR), and the % of the variation (+6.7%) for costs non-industrial.

The currency is Euro