The field "Department" of the profit center is a critical field that is used in BW to assign a cost center to a plant and then to a site.
ex:
- The cost center 7512-1022 is assigned to the profit center 7512-I0449
- The department of the profit center 7512-I0449 is 7512
=> The cost center is assigned to the plant 7512
Depending on the type of profit center the department code can be:
- a plant code = a code maintained in table T001W in WP1 or PF1 (1)
- a generic plant code (only in WP1) created by GBU (2). This code doesn't exist in the table T001W.
Rule by ERP + type of profit center
| ERP | Type of profit center | Department | Example |
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| PF1 | Reporting profit center | = "blank" |
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| Organizational profit center | = plant code = profit center code without the letter C ex: department of profit center C RBAA = RBAA |
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| WP1 | Profit center used in the master data of production cost centers (the codification of the cost center starts with the plant code  ) | = plant code = first digits of the profit center code ex: department of profit center 7512 -I0449 = 7512 |
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Profit center used in the master data of SG&A / CBS / Financial cost centers (the codification of the cost center starts with the company code | = generic GBU code = BFC GBU code + 00 ex: Novecare = CS00 |
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| Exception: Facilities cost centers included in the group ZCBS-FFAC of the ZCBS hierarchy | = plant code = first digits of the profit center code ex: department of profit center 7925-I0569 = 7925 |
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For historical reasons, there can be some exception of the codification