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General Cost Center Planning
SAP Best Practices Baseline Package(China)
SAP Best Practices
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Scenario Overview – 1
Purpose During the annual budgeting process, the managers of non-operational cost
centers such as sales, marketing, administrative, research and development etc. plan the costs for various cost types/elements on their respective cost centers.
Benefits Possibility to compare planned and actual costs, monitoring of costs on cost
centers.
Purpose and Benefits:
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Scenario Overview – 2
SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0
SAP Applications Required:
Company Roles Involved in Process Flows: Enterprise Controller
Key Process Flows Covered: Check cost center masters Check version validity for current budget period Copy previous year’s actual expenses or budget as a basis for planning Transfer planned depreciation from assets Set planner profile Download cost elements to spreadsheet for income/expense budget Update budget values for income and expense excluding operations Upload cost elements for income and expense excluding operations Plan accrual costs, statistical key figures, assessments Confirm non-operating cost center budget Copy AOP version to actual version 0 and lock both versions for planning
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Scenario Overview – 3
General Cost Center Planning
After checking cost center master data and versions, you can copy the previous year’s actual expenses for the cost centers into an AOP (annual operative planning) budget version in cost center accounting. As an alternative the previous year’s budget data can also be used as a basis for planning.
The planned fixed or variable depreciation per cost center is transferred to the AOP version separately.
The data in this version is downloaded into spreadsheets by each cost element and cost center. The respective cost center managers review and update the budget values according to their requirements and plans. The revised figures are uploaded back into SAP.
The cost center planning in SAP is reviewed and finalized (accrued costs, statistical key figures, assessments).
The planned data of the AOP version is copied into active version 0. Planning is locked in both versions.
Detailed Process Description:
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Process Flow DiagramGeneral Cost Center Planning
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Data Correct
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Check Cost
Center Master Data(188)
Lock AOP and Active Version
for Planning
Annual Operating
Plan
Cost Center Planned Values
AOP= Annual Operating Planning
FROZEN Annual
Operating Plan
Copy AOP to Active Version
Copy Previous Year Budget as a Basis for the
AOP
Download cost elements to
excel for income/expense
budget
Copy Previous Year Actuals as a Base for the
AOP
Set Planner Profile
Transfer Planned
Depreciation from Assets
Check Versions are Valid for
Current Budget Period
Update Budget Values for
Income and Excluding Operations
Upload Cost Elements for Income and
Expense Excluding Operations
Cost Center Planned Values
Cost Center Planned Values
AOP – Manufacturing Cost Center Budget (176)
AOP – Revenue Cost
of Sales Transfer (173)
No
Yes
Cost Center Planned Values
Plan Accrued Costs
Plan Statistical Key Figures
Plan Assessments
Cost Center Planned Values
Cost Center Planned Values
Cost Center Planned Values
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Legend
Symbol Description Usage Comments
Band: Identifies a user role, such as Accounts Payable Clerk or Sales Representative. This band can also identify an organization unit or group, rather than a specific role.
The other process flow symbols in this table go into these rows. You have as many rows as required to cover all of the roles in the scenario.
Role band contains tasks common to that role.
External Events: Contains events that start or end the scenario, or influence the course of events in the scenario.
Flow line (solid): Line indicates the normal sequence of steps and direction of flow in the scenario.Flow line (dashed): Line indicates flow to infrequently-used or conditional tasks in a scenario. Line can also lead to documents involved in the process flow.
Connects two tasks in a scenario process or a non-step event
Business Activity / Event: Identifies an action that either leads into or out of the scenario, or an outside Process that happens during the scenario
Does not correspond to a task step in the document
Unit Process: Identifies a task that is covered in a step-by-step manner in the scenario
Corresponds to a task step in the document
Process Reference: If the scenario references another scenario in total, put the scenario number and name here.
Corresponds to a task step in the document
Sub-Process Reference: If the scenario references another scenario in part, put the scenario number, name, and the step numbers from that scenario here
Corresponds to a task step in the document
Process Decision: Identifies a decision / branching point, signifying a choice to be made by the end user. Lines represent different choices emerging from different parts of the diamond.
Does not usually correspond to a task step in the document; Reflects a choice to be made after step execution
Symbol Description Usage Comments
To next / From last Diagram: Leads to the next / previous page of the Diagram
Flow chart continues on the next / previous page
Hardcopy / Document: Identifies a printed document, report, or form
Does not correspond to a task step in a document; instead, it is used to reflect a document generated by a task step; this shape does not have any outgoing flow lines
Financial Actuals: Indicates a financial posting document
Does not correspond to a task step in a document; instead, it is used to reflect a document generated by a task step; this shape does not have any outgoing flow lines
Budget Planning: Indicates a budget planning document
Does not correspond to a task step in a document; instead, it is used to reflect a document generated by a task step; this shape does not have any outgoing flow lines
Manual Process: Covers a task that is manually done
Does not generally correspond to a task step in a document; instead, it is used to reflect a task that is manually performed, such as unloading a truck in the warehouse, which affects the process flow.
Existing Version / Data: This block covers data that feeds in from an external process
Does not generally correspond to a task step in a document; instead, this shape reflects data coming from an external source; this step does not have any incoming flow lines
System Pass / Fail Decision: This block covers an automatic decision made by the software
Does not generally correspond to a task step in the document; instead it is used to reflect an automatic decision by the system that is made after a step has been executed.
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