Approach on Cost Center for Vehicles

Hi Experts,
I have a requirement to analyze the cost and profit of the vehicles internally. These vehicles can be assigned from one plant to another every month. Right now the setup for cost centers is grouped by the company site only. What is the best approach on this requirement?
I have listed some solution and one of the approach was to create cost centers for each vehicle. So for each vehicle counting at around 200 should be maintained in the cost center hierarchy. Is this the best possible solution?
Also what about the Report that shows the cost center vehicles profit and loss? it should show under a specific cost center group but because of the behavior of the vehicle cost center, every time the vehicle cost center is reassigned to another cost center group, it should also show in the report that it has been maintained in the right cost center in that duration. So the report will reflect the cost center under cost center group A, example last month and another cost center group B, this month.
Also I am considering Profit Center but I am not familiar with the idea.
Please help on this solution. Thank you so much.

Hi
1. I am not sure how your vehicles are going to earn revenue.. From your question, I assume yours is a mfg concern, then how and why does the profitability of vehicles is important for your business, unless yours is a transport business.. Correct my understanding, incase wrong
2. Cost centers (CC) would not be the right approach... You cant post revenues in a cost center... They can be posted only statistically in a CC
3. Use Internal Orders (IO).. In IO Type (T Code KOT2_OPA), allow for revenue postings as well.
4.
a. Your numbering of the IOs can be same as vehicle no for the sake of simplicity.
b. Or Else, you can capture your vehicle no in any of the free fields and create a New Search (F4) help based on this field in T code OKO1...
c. Or Else, you can create new fields for IO to capture Vehicle no, include them in Structure CI_AUFK. For this use exit COOPA003
5. Once you post your costs and revenues in IOs, you can derive prof reports either from standard IO reports or create a new one using report painter
6. Now Coming to your question of identifying the vehicles under plants in which they were under a certain period - I would suggest to drop this requirement. However, if you still want to have it, then maintain a Z table in which you have fields like IO, Plant, Dates From and To. Based on this info, you need to create an ABAP report
Regards
Ajay M

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