Sender & Receiver concept in controlling

Question

Respected sir,
Should any body tell me the concept of sender & receiver rule in controlling? how we define it?pls give an example that who is the sender & for that sender who is the receiver?
Than'x
Dhananjay

Answer 1

Hi,
Sender and receiver objects are defined in CO with respect to cost transfer. As you may be aware, many of the cost objects such as production order, network order, IO, WBS elements etc. are temperory cost gathering objects. This is based on SAP's basic premise that cost should be booked where it is incurred.Once cost is fully gathered, cost is settled to more permanent entities such as PA, cost centre etc. This process of transferring actual cost from one object to another is called settlement. The cost objects which gather and send costs are called sender objects, and cost objects receiveing the cost are called receiver objects.
Also there are other types of transfer of cost between cost centres and WBS elements etc.
The concept of sender /receiver objects make the flow of cost in the enterprise transparent.
Hope this explanation meets your requirement.
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Muraleedharan.R