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Explaining Work Center Integration

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

Describe the Work Center Integration in SAP Defense and Security
Describe the difference between a Responsible Work Center and an Executing Work Center

Work Center Integration

The image shows a high-level overview of the SAP CO (Cost Accounting) module, including its key components such as Default Values, Calculator, General data, Capacities, Scheduling, Cost Center, Activity types, and Settlement sets for cost accounting. The image also highlights the connection between the Performed cost center and the overall Cost Accounting system.

You are involved in implementing the SAP Defense and Security industry solution. You need to learn about the Defense and Security-specific work center integration.

In Plant Maintenance (PM), work centers are used in the following ways:

As the main work center in the master record for the equipment or functional location.
As the main work center in a maintenance item.
As the main work center in the task list header.
As the performing work center in the operations for a task list.
As the main work center in the order header.
As the performing work center in the operations for an order.

Work centers belong to the master data in PM and provide the capacity required to perform a task.

Costing

You can use costing to determine the costs of an internal activity by a product unit. The aim of costing is to attribute the costs incurred to the individual cost objects. It uses the work center to link the operation to cost accounting by maintaining cost centers and activity types. If the work center is used in an operation, standard values can be entered for the activity types specified in the work center.

Scheduling

You can use scheduling to determine the dates when operations should be performed. For this, you must calculate the time required for the operations and compare it with the time available in the work center. The standard values and quantities in the operations are used as the basis for this calculation. During scheduling, the start and end dates for the operations are calculated from this data, using formulas which have been entered for scheduling in the work centers.

Capacity planning

In capacity planning, the capacity requirements for the operations in the orders are determined and compared with the available capacity defined in the work center. During capacity planning, you can use work center hierarchies to aggregate the available capacity and capacity requirements of lower-level work centers.

The image shows a high-level overview of the SAP CO (Cost Accounting) module, including its key components such as Default Values, Calculation, General data, Capacities, and Scheduling. It also illustrates the connections between the Responsible workcenter, Organizational Unit, HR-workcenter, and Executing workcenter within the Cost Accounting system.

Work center links provide the connection between work centers and other objects within the SAP System. You can link a work center to the following objects:

Cost center
Qualifications
Staffing positions
People

PM Level with Work Center

The image depicts a matrix with Cost on the y-axis and Positions on the x-axis. It shows how different roles, such as Planners, Electricians, and Mechanics, are associated with the Responsible Work Center and Executing Work Center. The image provides a visual representation of the relationships between cost and positions within the organization.

The figure, Organizational PM Level with Work Center, illustrates the position of the work center in the organizational structure and shows an exemplary assignment of responsible and performing work center.

Positions are structures used to define available slots to which employees can be assigned.

Coy. = Company

Pt. = Platoon

Technical objects are assigned to a responsible work center. The responsible work center corresponds to an organizational unit, and thus to a force element.

The responsible work center is the owner of the technical object. It is able to repair smaller malfunctions, and it acts as the requester for a maintenance measure in case of major problems.

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