What is cost center number?why it is 13 character long?

Hi ALL
What is cost center number?why it is 13 character long?
Please suggest on this
Thanks & Regards
Sameer Khan

hi,
cost center is an area in the business were the price for the product can be fixed and all finance related data were accessed.
we are maintaining the length as 10 . hence not mandatory to have 13.
Ramesh

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