BSA report



A Solvay BUSINESS SUPPORT ACTIVITY (BSA) includes all teams active in the same functional domain, whether in Group Functions, GBUs, SBS or Transformation center. 

You can find more information on the BSA in this presentation.

BSA report

A report is published every month by the reporting platform to follow-up BSA costs mixing HR (FTE) and finance data (costs).


BSA definitions

List o BSAs maintained in the system on with their definition updated in  

BSA Finance 

GROUP  FUNCTIONS

SBSTRANSFORMATION CENTER

SUPPORT  FUNCTIONS  IN GBUS

  • Treasury managers
  • Controller for HR
  • Assistant to CFO
  • Country Accounting Manager
  • Credit management specialists
  • …

  • GBU Finance Directors
  • Plant controllers
  • Secretary Service

BSA Procurement

GROUP  FUNCTIONS

SBSTRANSFORMATION CENTER

SUPPORT  FUNCTIONS  IN GBUS

  • Category GENEX Buyer
  • Purchasing Process Leader
  • Purchasing Officer Assistant
  • End User Partner Specialist 
  • Provisioning design specialist
  • ...
  • Demand Mgt leader
  • S³ Program Director
  • ...
  • Site Buyer
  • GBU Head of Purchasing
  • Assistant in Purchasing Division
  • ...

BSA Human Resources  

GROUP  FUNCTIONS

SBSTRANSFORMATION CENTER

SUPPORT  FUNCTIONS  IN GBUS

  • Talent acquisition specialists
  • Finance HR director
  • HR Assistant
  • …
  • Payroll operations specialists
  • HR services
  • …
Head of E. Practices & HR Dir Ex. Center
  • Site HR
  • HR & Admin. Assistant
  • GBU HR directors
  • ...

BSA Industrial 

There are 5 BSAs industrial: HSE, Operation, Other, GEC, Environment

  1. All the people from CBS INDUS Function.
  2. All the people from the Functional Area Industrial: this is an HR classification based on the Job Family. The Job Families linked the FA Industrial are: Production, Maintenance, Quality management and quality control, HSE, Engineering & Construction, Technology, Industrial management, Manufacturing excellence.

BSA Communication

BSA Digital & IT

BSA General Counsel

BSA GPA

BSA Facilities

BSA General Management

BSA Group Security

BSA MBU

BSA R&I

BSA SBS

BSA Strategy

BSA Supply Chain

BSA Sustainability

BSA Sales & Marketing

BSA Transformation


How does the report work ?


The cost center is used as a unique key between Finance database and HR database.

The report is based on postings done on cost centers.

Each headcount are linked to a cost center in the HR database 

Assignement of a cost center to a BSA

A cost center is assigned to a unique BSA =>  One cost center = One single BSA.  

  • All cost centers are assigned to a group (level 4) of the ZCBS hierarchy and some groups (level 4) of the ZCBS hierarchy are assigned to a BSA through another hierarchy ZCBS_BSA. (For instance the cost center 2295-4320 Function HR is included in the group ZCHRFUN1 of the ZCBS hierarchy that is itself included in the group BSA_HR of the ZCBS_BSA hierarchy. Then the cost center 2295-4320 is assigned to the BSA Human Resources.) 

Where to find the ZCBS_BSA hierarchy ?

  • File : A file is available in gdrive here (be careful it may not the very last version, it is always better to look at the data directly in SAP or BW)

  • In SAP

Run the transaction  KSH3 - Display cost center hierarchy  in WP1 with the  controlling area Z013, and enter   ZCBS_BSA. 

How to improve the accuracy of the BSA reporting?

  • Headcount update

If the headcount is linked to a wrong cost center you can update this cost center by using a freshdesk ticket -->Go to Freshdesk / HR Request / System updates / eWS NGA.

  • Cost center update

If your cost center is linked to a wrong node in the ZCBS hierarchy, you can update it by submitting a workflow through PF1 .


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