Business Term Definition
Grouping of cost centers that are assigned to a hierarchy with the purpose to generate a monthly report to follow up BSA costs mixing HR (FTE) and finance data (costs). It answers the need for a transversal management of BSA in the Group beyond Corporate functions, SBS and GBUs with a visibility on costs & FTE/Headcount.
Roles
Data Owner
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Data Steward
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Data Sources, Type and Classification
Data Source
SAP
Data Type
Master Data
Data Classification
Internal Data
Data Protection and Update Frequency
Data Update Frequency
On demand
Data Quality Issues and Rules
Data Quality Issues
- All cost centers should have a BSA.
Data Quality Rules
- Consistency - Active CCs to L4 in the ZCBS hierarchy: The rule checks if all "Active" Cost Centers are in "Level 4" in ZCBS hierarchy EXCEPT the Cost Centers that are in EDISCXX, they are in Level 4 but they should be blocked and be Inactive.
- Consistency - Accuracy of assigning "Inactive" Cost centers to the EDISCXX node
- Consistency - All cost centers are assigned to an active GBU Cluster
- Conformity - SRM7 responsible codification: The rule checks if the position responsible field of the cost center has 8 digits and the first 3 digits (left to right) need to start with “500”
- Consistency - All cost centers are assigned to a BSA
- Consistency - All the cost centers should have a profit center associated
- Consistency - Active Cost Centers (Field Obsolete_Object = 0) should be considered as inactive, according with the following conditions:
- Creation date >= 18 months
- AND cross check with transactional data SE16 (tables COSP and COSS with "xxx" field) to see if we had any postings in the last 18 months
- AND Cost center does not exist in SAP Tcode OKB9 (column "Cost Center")
Related Business Terms
| Data Attribute | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Cost Center | A Cost Center is an organizational unit within a controlling area that represents a defined location of cost incurrence. The main use of a cost center is to track actual expenses for comparison to budget. | |
| ZCBS hierarchy | The ZCBS alternative hierarchy has been created for reporting purposes to segregate costs by nature. | More info |
| Person Responsible | The person responsible of a cost center is accountable for the elements allocated in the cost center | More info |
| Budgeting Hierarchy | The dimensions "Budget L1" through "Budget L5" contain the 5 levels of the Anaplan Budgeting Hierarchy, that reflects the organization of the GBUs or functions to be used to enter and approve the budget |