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Introduction
SECTION 1 Construction of the P&L
TO BE UPDATED WITH AFTER SPS PROJECT
Business Financial Consolidation (BFC)
P&L statements and BFC interfaces are produced through
- CO-PA for sales data (by country, partner, etc.)
- CO-PCA for other P/L reporting items
- Material ledger for COGS (split VC / NVC / DEP)

Logistics Organizational Unit representing the place where either materials are produced or goods and services provided.
Identification of production and non production plants.
Use in CO:
- Organizational Cost Centers standard hierarchy
- Profit Centers standard hierarchy
- Cost Object Hierarchy (first 2 levels in the structure)
- Materials: To identify the ones relevant for costing and to be updated during the Project (Accounting / Costing views).
- Material Ledger activation (customizing).
1 digit code identifying the country inside Solvay ERP.
Use in CO:
- Reporting Profit Centers codification at PIF level (position before last)
It is used in the codification of the Cost Centers (=first two digits) in PF1.
The establishment code is a combination of a legal company on a site
- SM = cy 0001 SCH
- XR = cy 0270 Solvay Quimica, Italian in Rosignano
- SV = cy 0306 Solvay Portugal, Prod Quim.
The codes are part of the enterprise structure and managed by Core Tables
The establishment code can be displayed with PF1 - ZPRI Display table ETAB

The Result (Reporting) Profit Centers are the basis for Group reporting
- Material (plant level, Costing view)
- Cost centers
- CO orders
- PM orders
- PP orders
- Cost collectors
- WBS
The person responsible of a cost center is accountable for the elements allocated in the cost center
The companies using SRM7 for purchasing should have a SRM7 user ID (=BIP user ID) entered in this field, starting with 5, such as 50000000
To display the list of person responsible use the report PF1 - SRM Validators in cost centers
Usually the name & description of a cost center is free but in some cases there can be special needs.
Definition
Cost object in Product Cost by Period that collects the periodic actual costs incurred in the production of a material. When a cost collector is used, the product is the main cost object.
Use
Product cost collectors are independent of the production type. This means that costs can be collected on product cost collectors in the following production environments:
- In order-related production (using production orders) to analyze the costs by period rather than by lot;
- In process manufacturing (using process orders) to analyze the costs by period rather than by lot;
- Repetitive manufacturing: product cost collectors are used as cost objects.
Practically speaking
Cost collectors are independent of the production type. This means that costs can be collected
- All Organizational Cost centers, depending on the original cost elements posted in them, have to allocate their cost as Fixed Cost or Depreciation. Also in the case of Utilities partially as variable
- Sometimes it may be necessary to track these allocations with separate assessment cost elements so they can be used for instance to determine the origin of the cost for product Costing purpose (activity types / Cost component structure or PRG)
- This can be done creating several segments for each cost center or cost center group allocation
- But we may SIMPLIFY this allocation by unifying all the multiple allocation into a single segment, using an allocation structure.
- With this, we may also adopt standardized assessment cycles for all companies, treating equally the allocation of cost elements and cost centers to Reporting CC or to Production CC
- We’ll have just one segment per cost center
- It is done at CC level.
- The level of complexity is determined by the different types of activity types used in production CC.
- The right design of the splitting Structure/Activity Types is a preliminary step to have the Cost Component structure as detailed or as simple as we want.
Cost Component structure are used to classify within the cost collector which cost elements are fixed, variable or Depreciation. But not only this. The level of granularity depends on the GBU election (election of Cost Component), but it has to be coherent with activity types. It links them to material ledger classification
- It is customized at Company level.
- The level of detail provided and its complexity is determined by the different types of activity types used in production CC.
- The right design of the Splitting structure / Activity Types is a preliminary step to have the Cost Component structure as detailed or simple as we want.
SECTION 2 Usage of different reports to explain PL
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