Differentiating Between Cost Centers and Simple Projects
After completing this lesson, you will be able to compare the usage of cost centers and simple projects .
Projects and WBS Elements
Lesson overview.
In this lesson, you will learn about the use of work breakdown structure elements (WBS elements) to structure projects, as well as why you may use them in addition to cost centers.
Distinction and Link Between Project and WBS Elements
You previously identified the usage of cost centers when tracking overhead cost information. In the SAP S/4HANA system, projects can also be used to manage overhead costs.
Let’s find out which contexts the projects apply to. Why use another cost object? For what kind of analysis? When do you use cost centers and when do you use simple projects?
When costs and revenues need to be followed up with a more horizontal approach , you should prefer to track costs and revenues by project . Often it makes sense to break the work of this project into multiple separate tasks and to set up a hierarchy for them: a transversal work breakdown structure (WBS) .
A project can consist of multiple WBS elements or only one in the case of simple projects.
Cost Assignment: Cost Center or WBS Element?
Now that you know what a WBS element is, let's look at the main differences between WBS elements and cost centers.
For this, navigate through the following table:
You now know that WBS elements represent discrete parts of the work linked to a project. They are used as cost objects each time you need to gather costs and revenues from a specific task related to a project.
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KNOWLEDGE CENTRE
Cost centers, internal orders or assignment fields. which one is just right.
With so many choices, choosing the right way to track and report your transactions can have you feeling a little like Goldilocks. But the right choice ultimately depends on your reporting needs.
Cost Centers allow you to report on planned spending and compare it to actual revenue and expense postings for a specific department, program or project at the general ledger level of detail.
An Internal Order is similar to a Cost Center but is non-fiscal year based (any start or end date, annual or “life to date”).
This is ideal for long term projects lasting beyond a fiscal year, or short term projects.
The Assignment field is a reporting tool used to organize all postings to Cost Centers or Internal Orders by a case and space sensitive Assignment (a.k.a., Allocation), regardless of the general ledger.
Each of these is an alternative way to group similar transactions, and each has their own pros and cons.
Learn More:
- Training Documentation: FIS Overview (slide 22 – 27)
- Training Documentation: Basic Controlling Reporting
- Reference Guide: Cost Center Without and With Internal Order – Plans & Actuals
- Reference Guide: Uploading CC and IO Plans to FIS
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2948799 - System Does not Determine Higher Level Cost Center Managers During Purchase Order Approval Process
You have defined the approval process for purchase order with rule Approval by all cost center managers by value limit of a project task, however system does not determine higher level cost center managers from the org structure hierarchy.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to Purchase Requests and Orders work center.
- Go to Purchase Orders view.
- Select the relevant Purchase Order.
- Go to the Approvals tab.
- You can see that, approver determination is incomplete or incorrect.
Where you have defined the approval process for Purchase Order as Approval by all cost center managers by value limit of a project task and the corresponding Purchase Order is assigned to project task. If you open the project task, and navigate to Accounting you can see the responsible unit defined for the project task. Here system determined the cost center manager of the responsible unit assigned in the project task.
You expect system to find higher level managers from the Purchasing Approval Value Limit under Employee Work Distribution rule.
The cost center manager does not have any value limit maintained in the Purchasing Approval Value Limit section. In this case, system will give infinite approval limit to the user and assign the task to him.
Which means, system will not find any other higher level managers.
You need to define the value limit for project cost center manager in the Purchasing Approval Value Limit from the below steps:
- Go to the Application and User Management work center.
- Go to Task Distribution view.
- Select Employee Work Distribution.
- Select Purchasing Approval Value Limit under the business area Purchasing.
- Add Row and Maintained the Employee Responsible and define the Value Limit.
- Select Save and Close.
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The assignment of a cost center also implicitly assigns all the assets that belong to that cost center to the profit center (see Assignment of Assets). Caution. If an asset is assigned to a profit center via an internal order, and this profit center is not the same as the one to which the cost center is assigned, the profit center to which the ...
(This is relationship A/B 011). No assignment percentage record can be entered. When you assign further cost centers (cost distribution), a record of infotype 1018 (cost distribution) is created for the organizational units and positions concerned. A cost center and a percentage record for the cost center assignment will be entered into this ...
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SAP S/4HANA. Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) Basic Functions. Profit Center Assignments. Assignment of Cost Centers. Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) 2023 Latest. * This product version is out of mainstream maintenance. The documentation is no longer regularly updated.
Internal Order Settlement. Internal orders are usually used as an interim collector of costs and an aid to the planning, monitoring, and reporting processes. When the task is completed, the costs are passed on to their final receiving object, like cost center, WBS element, or profitability segment. This process is called settlement.
After completing this lesson, you will be able to: Credit orders using periodic reposting. Distinguish between and use the various settlement options. Enter settlement rules. Define and use the allocation, source and PA transfer structures. Understand the results of the settlement using special reports.
In SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, the costing functionality of simple projects can also be covered with internal orders - a controlling account assignment that is not available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition systems. You now know that WBS elements represent discrete parts of the work linked to a project.
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The Cost Center field in this case is only relevant for settlement in the shipment cost doc. HINT: The field Cost Center is not possible to determine in a copy routine, because routine 302 (hard coded) rewrite your settings. It is necessary to do in USEREXIT_MOVE_FIELD_TO_LIPS. Regards, Claudio Ipinza. leolee-yeprny0f (leolee-yeprny0f) July 12 ...
See configuration t-code OVF3 or path Sales and Distribution—Basic Functions-- Account Assignment — Assign Cost centers. It is a real pain to do this cause customer service always has toput in an order reason code in order to get a cost center assigned. I am on 4.0B and if anyone has a better way I would be interested too. Thanks. Karen Tablan
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An Internal Order is similar to a Cost Center but is non-fiscal year based (any start or end date, annual or "life to date"). This is ideal for long term projects lasting beyond a fiscal year, or short term projects. The Assignment field is a reporting tool used to organize all postings to Cost Centers or Internal Orders by a case and space ...
Access the "Display Maintenance Order" app. Input order. Navigate to tab Organizational Data. under Account Assignment a Cost Center is maintained. Access the App Change Purchase Requisition. Input the Purchase Requisition that was created from the order. Navigate to tab Account Assignment. Cost Center field is blank.
You have defined the approval process for purchase order with rule Approval by all cost center managers by value limit of a project task, however system does not determine higher level cost center managers from the org structure hierarchy. SAP Knowledge Base Article - Preview.
Use. For internal accounting, you generally need to assign asset costs to cost centers. Therefore, you can assign each asset in Asset Accounting to exactly one cost center. You make this assignment in the asset master record. At the level of the cost center, you can then. Post all depreciation and interest for the asset (see System Settings for ...
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Purpose. You can use this CDS view to display information about the assignment of profit centers to cost centers in an organizational change. This CDS view provides the data to answer the following business questions: Which old and new profit centers are assigned to which cost center in the organizational change?