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Hi everyone,
I have a question about the use of the ActivityDriverValue when using several activity drivers simultaneously :
For instance, if I need to allocate the department DEP_A as follows :
CO1 with a AD X,
CO2 and CO3 with AD Y,
I should integrade ActivityDriverValue on  :
AD X / DEP_A / OdC1,
AD Y / DEP_A / OdC2 / OdC3.
  My question : for AD Y, on which item of the CO1 dimension I have to integrate the ActivityDriverValue? It is not working with "CO1 unassigned".
Should I use a rule on the AD items in order to duplicate the ActivityDriverValue for every CO1 item?
Thanks in advance for your support,
Thibaut

Answer 1

Dear Thibault,
Dear Thibault,
This value (ActivityDriverValue) is a measure of an appropriate operational quantity such as Number of Sales or Number of Invoices, which is used to distribute costs across a rangeof Cost Objects. It drives costs from Line Items, Services, or Activities through to Cost Objects in a specific Version, Period, and Responsibility Center, where a Cost Object can be a combination of up to five distinct Cost Object dimensions.
Each value is associated with a particular Cost Object whose costs are calculated as the proportion of the value to its total.
For example, If the model only uses 1 Cost Object Dimension then the chosen Activity Driver
will always show as 'First' as the costs are only going to be taken onto that one Cost Object Dimension. There are no further Cost Object Dimensions for another Driver to be used 'second'.
When a model contains 2 Cost Object Dimensions then 2 different Drivers can be used. In this scenario it would be possible to specify which driver would be used first and which would be used second.
For each Line Item/Responsibility Center combination only 1 Activity Driver cane selected for the 1 Cost Object Dimension.
So When creating a Cost Object Assignment for a Line Item or Activity and Responsibility Center, to use more than 1 Activity Driver there will need to be more than 1 Cost Object Dimension being used.
Please refer to the note: 1297904 - PCM: Cannot assign multiple Activity Drivers to One Cost
Object Dimension in the Cost Object Assignment screen
Many Thanks in advance,
Siwar Taleb