Maintain Cycles - test

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 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.

In WP1, assessment cycles are used to allocate common production cost centers (PPPP-2xxx) to Workshops cost centers (PPPP-1xxx)

 In PF1, assessment cycles are used to:

• Allocate common production & utilities cost centers to Workshops cost centers (EE32xxxxxx or EE193xxxxx)

• Allocate organizational cost centers to reporting cost centers with reporting cost elements 98xxxxxxxx

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

In WP1, the P&L is built in COPA, cost centers are assessed to a value field in COPA with a secondary cost element 994299xx

In PF1, COPA cycles are used in limited cases

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. 

In WP1 and PF1, distribution cycles are used to allocate :

• Insurance
• IAS 19

Only used in PF1