Activity types, Cost center and Internal order Accounting

[Former Member]

Hello Gurus,

ive got a requirement which is:

our CARGO company works basically with Internal Order, where they are using so called technology scheme (this is a method where a cargo is beeing loaded in/out of ship and into warehouse and oposite direction).

The idea is to have a detailed cost collection on Internal Order, where they could collect not only statistical postings like statistical key figure values (H, KG, TON etc.) but also calculated values upon those UOM.

I made an analysis on cost centers. they have so called activity types, which can be used as detail of cost center -> to -> cost element -> to Activity type. it is like three way cost collection. also these activity types collect their own statisticals postings (the same H, KG, TON, etc.) This posibility alows us to make distribution to internal orders, but after it orders loose the activity type information.

Is there a way in using activity types to orders, or perhaps another solution using other Internal Order elements.

At the moment (SAP CO) we are using only Internal orders, Cost centers, Statisical key figures and nothing more

Thanks and Best Regards

Laurynas Prikockis

[iklovski · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I cannot understand your doubt... When you allocate costs via activity types to internal order, the information about the activity type is not lost. It's stored in the Partner Object. Additionally, if you don't want to work with this fieldn, you can use different cost elements for each resource and, thus, make your reporting more simple.

Regards,

Eli

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Eli,

thanks for quick reply. Isnt it the case, that after distribution the partner object is filled with cost center information (im not sure)?

So you are saying, that if we collect costs on Cost Center (i.e. 1111) according to Cost Element (primary) (main salary 60303010 and additional salary 60303020) and more granular view to activity type A1, A2 after distribution we should get the Act.Types and Cost center as Partner objects to Internal order?

The main problem was, that our accountants want to see detailed cost information drilled down:

1. Cost center or Internal Order -> 100 EUR (sum of Cost element)

1.1. Cost Element (Primary) -> 100 EUR (sum of Act.Type)

1.1.1. Activity type1 -> 30 EUR

1.1.2. Activity type2 -> 70 EUR

Regards

Laurynas

Edited by: Laurynas Prikockis on Feb 9, 2012 9:38 PM

[Former Member]

Why do you need to allocate costs to internal orders via cost center and activity types? You can directly post costs to Internal orders using cost elements from any sub-modules.

Please explain your requirement clearly.

[Former Member]

Hi,

the basic Idea is to collect costs on internal order (with detailed granularity)

1.Order

1.1 Cost element (primary)

1.1.1 Act.Type

since they are this companys main working elements.

The only detailed granularity on internal order could be achieved by using activity types (as Eli said, after distributing costs from cost center), cause we can calculate not only price according to act.type but also measure units of done work on these activities.

Regards

Laurynas