Performing Simultaneous Costing of Sales Orders for Make-to-Order (MTO) Services

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
  • Allocate resource usage for services
  • Allocate internal activities with CATS

Allocation of Resources

The image depicts a diagram illustrating the flow of a sales order process, including details like the sales order number, item description, cost object, planned and actual revenue/costs, expense and stock changes, as well as the impact on customers, stock quantity/valuation, credit, and sales revenue.

You can post the goods issue for the material needed for the service. The sales order item is debited with the cost of the material.

Allocation of Internal Activities

The image illustrates the flow of data from a sales order, through a cost object tracking planned and actual revenues/costs, to a direct activity allocation system using a cost center. It shows how labor costs recorded in a cross-application timesheet feed into the actual cost calculation process.

You can define CATS for allocating internal activities of your employees. You can also post the activities with a direct activity allocation. If you use routings, you can enter confirmations of completion for the internal processed operations. ​

Cross-Application Time Sheet (SAP CATS)

The image depicts a workflow process involving multiple applications for tracking work hours, attendance/absence, operational confirmations, cost allocations, and service management. It shows two personas entering work hours data that flows through different systems like CATS, HCM, PS, CO, and MM, illustrating cross-application time sharing and transfer between these modules.

SAP CATS is an integrated function for entering actual times that are important in the Human Capital Management (HCM), Project System (PS), Plant Maintenance (PM), Service Management (SM), Controlling (CO), or External Services Management (MM-SRV) areas.

You can use data entry profiles to set the layouts.

Reports transfer the released (if necessary) approved data to various applications. The actual times can also be important for various applications. This causes multiple transfers to the various applications.

Note on production planning (PP) production orders: You can use CATS to enter hours for the production order receiver object, that is the Order field. The hours entered are posted on the production order as an internal activity allocation when transferred to CO. You cannot use CATS to enter confirmations for yields and scrap quantities for production orders.

Time Sheet – Data Entry View

The image displays a data entry screen for a timesheet application, showing various fields for entering work details such as network codes, operation codes, descriptions, work center numbers, and hours worked per day across different profiles.

Time recording is carried out for one or more employees.

The screen layout for the initial screen, worklist, and entry section can be displayed in the following ways:

  • Employee group with the data entry profile

  • User-defined using table control

A worklist for employees can be made available that displays data from:

  • Operations to which the employee is assigned with the work center or distribution of work to employees (for PS, PM, or CS)

  • Operations with the pool of confirmations (for PS, PM, or CS)

  • Objects that the employee is currently processing with the CATS database

  • Objects with user exits

Allocate Internal Activities

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Summary

  • Sales orders can be used as cost objects in service scenarios.
  • This can comprise costs from good issues for materials needed for services or from internal activity allocation.

Learning

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