Accommodate structure changes in Budget Application for each year

Question

every year our cost center structure changes to accomplish that we are creating New Budget Application every year . Cost center structure is divided in to Area then region and then csc. These Regions never stays under same Area they change it every year
can anyone suggest out a way to do it in only one Budget Application instead of creating new Application every year ?
How can we Accommodate structure changes in Budget Application for each year?
thanks in advance for the suggestions

Answer 1

Assuming the cost centers stay the same, and only the hierarchy of the dimension changes, it's really quite simple.
Export the level 0 data, clear the database, update outline, import the level 0 export file, agg database. You should now have the new totals.
All of this can be done in place without the export/import of data as well, but it is a good practice to export/clear db/import the data for defrag purposes.
Some things to consider, if the organization will want to compare year over year company totals...
1.     They need to create some governance around newly inactive cost centers, usually you create some sort of "Inactive" parent in the dimension and when they are no longer active they need to be reassigned to this "inactive" parent. This will ensure that at least the company total stays the same.
2.     Following #1, they need to understand that the year over year totals will may only be accurate at Company total (including the Inactive rollup) and at cost center.
Robert