Cost element & work center

Dear All,
What is meant by cost element.any link between cost element and work center.how to configure this.Kindly give the steps to follow.
Regards,
Devi

Hi Devi,
Cost element is Classification of the organization's valuated consumption of production factors within a controlling area.
Each cost element corresponds to a cost-relevant item in the chart of accounts.
Primary Cost element & Secondary Cost element.
Primary cost elements are like materail costs, personnel costs, energy costs... where a corresponding GL account exists in FI..to allow costs to flow...
Secondary cost elements are like production costs, material overheads, production overheads, they can be created and administered in only CO. These are used in internal cost allocation, overhead calculation, settlement transactions., it does not flow to FI...
I don't think there is any link between Cost element and Work Center.
If useful reward.
Regards,
Santosh

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Can we link the costs in CO document along with line item and to a work center after production order confirmations?

Dear
You need to utilise tabel :
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2.S022 - this is for your operation header details - operation number, Work centre etc if you are only after the header details such as activity cost based on the activity type assinged at work centre -cost centre ( refer : AFVC or AUFV)
3.AUFK - this is for your order master data - Order released flag, order complete flag, technically complete date, you'll need this to filter out confirmed order with order staus based on JEST table.
4.Work Centre : CRCO-Work centre /cost center relation , CRHD-Work Cenre Header .
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I think this 24 hours is not directly related to 1 day equivalant hours.The time is coming from the formula you have used SAP008.
Please create a formula which will take 24 hours as 8 hours for this resours.
For an example
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Hope this will help.
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Costing at work center

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Hi Ramkrishna,
You could deactivate the costing relevancy indicator in the routing opertion of the material for which you do not want operation costing.
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Activity cost at work center

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1. In a work center we have 3 activities. 1. Labour time
                                                                   2. Machine Time
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But my client wants machine hour rate : no. labours worked X Time worked X rate per hour .
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Cost work center A to work center B

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I must to modeling this situation:
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After I confirmed a half of quantity, I want to transfer the cost the work center A to and other work center B.
I want to keep the history u2018s confirmations on the work center A.
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Hello,
The user clock in his time by CO11N, for example 2 hrs, on the posting date 2011.02.01 (on the project A).
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Hi Murali
Thanks for update
I explain my req clearly
For me segment is Distribution channel field (EXPORT and DOMESTIC)
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But after posting document system not giving COPA document.
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Hi Check the following "
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In Bex - Right now I am displaying Cost Center and Cost Element hierarchy with 12 months of data. I want to display the actual Cost center number next to cost element hierarchy - Can I display in Bex?
Tried to with Structure creating formula variable for Cost Center using replacement path - didn't work. Can you please suggest me how i can achieve this?
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Let me explain it clearly and hope it is clear now...
Designed the report as like this - Cost Center Hierarchy by Cost Element Hierarchy for 12 months of data. But Business agian search in R/3 for actual cost center numbers based on above two hierarchy nodes.
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Work center to actvity element

Hi,
I have created 1 work center and assigned to activity and iam getting the plan cost.
If i assign the same work center OR any other Work center to Activity element, system is showing the error No cost were calculated.
Pls advise.
Regards
Narayan Raju

Hi Narayan,
The actiivity elements are used for the breaking the a activity into detail....
You can plan at both i.e at activity level or in activity elements...if you have planned at activity elements level the sum will be accumulated & displayed at the activity level...
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Hope this helps you.
Rgds.
Pradeep

Cost center & cost element

Hi Experts,
Can anybody please tell me,
What is difference between cost center and cost element.
what is exact role of both.

Hi,
Cost Center
Definition
External object (object type K) from Controlling which represents a clear origin of costs.
If you implement the Controlling component, you can find more information in SAP Library under Cost Center (Financials u2192 Controlling u2192 Cost Center Accounting u2192 Master Data in Cost Center Accounting (CO-OM-CCA) u2192 Cost Center)
and
Cost Center Accounting (Financials u2192 Controlling u2192 Cost Element Accounting).
Use
By assigning cost centers to organizational objects, you determine where costs incurred by the object are to be charged. The inheritance principle applies: If an organizational object is not assigned a cost center, the cost center assigned to the superior object applies.
An organizational object may also be assigned more than one cost center. For more information, see Cost Distribution (infotype 1018).
Integration
A cost center can be related to the following organizational objects:
·        an organizational unit via relationship A 011 (Cost center assignment)
·        a position via relationship A 011 (Cost center assignment)
·        a work center via relationship A 011 (Cost center assignment)
Cost Elements
Definition
Cost elements classify an organizationu2019s valuated consumption of production factors within a controlling area. A cost element corresponds to a cost-relevant item in the chart of accounts.
Structure
We distinguish between primary cost and revenue elements and secondary cost elements.
Primary Cost/Revenue Elements
A primary cost or revenue element is a cost or revenue-relevant item in the chart of accounts, for which a corresponding general ledger (G/L) account exists in Financial Accounting (FI). You can only create the cost or revenue element if you have first defined it as a G/L account in the chart of accounts and created it as an account in Financial Accounting. The SAP System checks whether a corresponding account exists in Financial Accounting.
Examples of primary cost elements include:
· Material costs
· Personnel costs
· Energy costs
Secondary Cost Elements
Secondary cost elements can only be created and administrated in cost accounting (CO). They portray internal value flows, such as those found in internal activity allocation, overhead calculations and settlement transactions.
When you create a secondary cost element, the SAP System checks whether a corresponding account already exists in Financial Accounting. If one exists, you can not create the secondary cost element in cost accounting.
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Integration
Cost elements in Controlling (CO) are closely related to the general ledger accounts used in Financial Accounting (FI). This is because the SAP System is structured as an Integrated Accounting System:
Cost elements document which costs (differentiated by category) are incurred within a settlement period, and in which amount. They provide information concerning the value flow and the value consumption within the organization. Cost Element Accounting and Cost Center Accounting/Internal Orders are closely linked in the SAP System. Each posting to an account that is also a cost element, is assigned either to a cost center or order. This ensures that at period-end the data is subdivided by cost elements and cost centers/internal orders for analysis purposes. The following section describes how you can subdivide and characterize cost elements in the SAP System.
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Regards,
Tejas

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I want to settle costs on plant maintenance orders to different type 21 cost elements depending on the main work centre on the order.
I understand that the ORDER TYPE can have different SETTLEMENT PROFILES and that these can determine the cost element to post to. HOWEVER the problem I have is I can not create new order types for this purpose (to much re-work).
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Hi,
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regards
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it might be the configuration of the library or some parameter in the report (record type should be 0 and 2 for actual values, where 2 stands for distributed values and 1 and 3 for planned values)
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