Introduction

 

SECTION 1 Construction of the P&L

 

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

KA03 - Display Cost Element

KAH3 - Display cost element group

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Result (Reporting) Profit Centers are the basis for Group reporting

All elements for BFC statement are extracted from the Profit centers (except NETV, QTV and TPT which are extracted from CO-Profitability Analysis -> CO-PA). To make this extraction work (through interfaces), all objects in CO must be assigned to a profit center;
  • Material (plant level, Costing view)
  • Cost centers
  • CO orders
  • PM orders
  • PP orders
  • Cost collectors
  • WBS
The Result Profit centers are depending on the Profit center group “CHEFCHEOPS”. These profit centers are generally assigned to all the ERP companies;
The non reporting Profit Center are in group “CHEF_CNTRL

 

 

 

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.

An assessment cycle is used in SAP to assign all primary cost elements and secondary cost elements from a sending cost center to the receiver cost center.When you want to transfer costs from one cost center to another through an assessment cycle, sap use a secondary cost element and accumulates all the primary cost and secondary cost and send it to the receiving cost center.

A distribution cycle is used in SAP to transfer primary costs from a sender cost center to receiving controlling objects. The original cost element remains the same. 

COPA Assessment cycle assesses costs from a Cost Center to COPA Value Fields. 

Splitting structure is used in cost center planning to define which cost elements are considered for calculating which prices of activity types, when a cost center has more than one activity associated to it, and the price is not manually determined (most of the cases in production CC). Also for actual price calculation of the activity types. It links Cost elements (and its amounts) with activities types of a given production CC.
  • 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