Required Master Data Scripts
To run this process you can utilize the Master Data scripts:
BNM – Create Cost Center and Cost Center Group
BNH – Create profit center
BNM – Create Cost Center and Cost Center Group
Cost centers represent organizational unit areas of responsibility to which financial costs can be assigned. Dividing an organization into cost centers allows you to follow several goals.
Assigning costs to cost centers lets you determine where costs are incurred within the organization.
If you plan costs at cost-center level, you can check cost efficiency at the point where costs are incurred.
If you want to assign overhead costs accurately to individual products, services, or market segments, you need to further allocate the costs to those cost centers directly involved in the creation of the products or services. From these cost centers you can then use different methods to assign the activities and costs to the relevant products, services, and market segments.
This enables you to valuate semi-finished and finished products in Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC), and to calculate contribution margins in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
Cost center groups represent a hierarchical structure of cost centers known as the standard hierarchy. Each cost center that is created must be assigned to a group in the standard hierarchy. This ensures that the standard hierarchy contains all the cost centers in the controlling group. When analyzing the standard hierarchy, the SAP system automatically includes all cost centers.
Note that cost centers may be assigned to any number of alternative groups. However, alternative groups cannot be created when maintaining the standard hierarchy.
Business Roles
The business role required to run this master data script is: Cost Accountant - Overhead (SAP_BR_OVERHEAD_ACCOUNTANT)
Process Steps
The process steps applicable for this master data script are:
Creating Cost Center Master Data
Creating Cost Center Group Master Data
BNH – Create profit center
A profit center is an organizational unit in accounting that reflects a management-oriented structure of the organization for the purpose of internal control. Dividing your company up into profit centers allows you to determine profit for internal areas of responsibility and to delegate responsibility to decentralized units.
The master data of a profit center includes the name of the profit center, the controlling area it is assigned to, and the profit center’s period of validity, as well as information about the person responsible for the profit center, the profit center’s assignment to a node of the standard hierarchy, and data required for communication (address, telephone number and so on).
Business Roles
The business role required to run this master data script is:
General Ledger Accountant (SAP_BR_GL_ACCOUNTANT)
Cost Accountant - Overhead (SAP_BR_OVERHEAD_ACCOUNTANT)
Process Steps
The process steps applicable for this master data script are:
Creating Profit Center Master Data (performed by the General Ledger Accountant)
Assign Profit Center to Cost Centers (performed by Cost Accountant - Overhead)
