Introduction

Key principles of the report

Only cost centers that are included in the hierarchy ZCBS are included in the BW report

Nonetheless even if the cost center is included in the ZCBS hierarchy, it may not be in the fixed costs dashboard as only cost centers used to report fixed costs are displayed

Only the GBU and CBS/Functions cost centers are included (ICO Intercompany & Others are excluded via the 1 – Organization group)ENTRP – Enterprise Fixed Costs follow up are included

- ZCBS-CORPO – Corporate Functions are included
- ZCBS-FUNCT – Function Services are included
- ZCBS-PROJ – Services Projects (Out of guarantee)

Only Fixed Costs Cost Centers are included (Filtered via the 2 – Function group)

- ECP – Variable Costs are excluded.
- EACAR – Other Operating Expenses are excluded.
- EPSRO – Post Operating Result are excluded.
- ECPVSE – Variable Sales Expenses are excluded.
- EDISC – Discontinued are excluded.
- ESERV – Services are excluded.

The fixed costs report is available by GBU.

In WP1, the GBU comes from the profit center of the cost center while in PF1 it comes from the business area of the cost center

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1. The profit center of the cost center 6062-6227 is 6062-I1184

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2. The profit center belongs to the GBU Soda Ash

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3. In the fixed costs report, the cost center 6062-6227 is allocated to the GBU Soda Ash

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1. The business area of the cost center SN370USD25 is 7250

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2. The business area 7250 belongs to the GBU Soda Ash

3. In the fixed costs report, the cost center SN370USD25 is allocated to the GBU Soda Ash

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In WP1, the report is available by production site or headquarter. It comes from the department of the profit center

In PF1, the dimension is not available. It is always #.

Cost elements can be grouped by type of costs using the cost elements group ZRCS-FC

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The report is available at origin or at destination:

At Destination all costs are debit/credit posting are included.
At Origin costs only costs only Debit Postings (or Receiver Debit Postings) are included.

More details : Origin only includes the Primary costs, while Destination includes both Primary and secondary costs:

Report at origin - indirect production cost center

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Report at destination - indirect production cost center

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