You can search for specific allocation cycles or filter the allocation cycles by various criteria, ensuring that the assigned rules are accurate. Manage Allocation App: Enable you to maintain the allocation cycles and their corresponding segments to allocate and distribute primary and secondary costs from one object to one or many others.The Fiori Apps to perform the allocation processes are listed in the picture below: It is available on SAP S/4HANA 1909 FPS01 release or newer. Used for costs such as freight/insurance at a generic level, such as company code, customer group, or product group, and then want to do a top-down distribution to a more specific profit segment level. Top-Down Distribution: New term for account-based profitability analysis.It can be useful when the original account is not so important or multiple senders. Instead of debiting and crediting the original G/L account, a secondary cost account with category 42 is used. Overhead Allocations: Similar to distributions, for primary and secondary costs.The allocation credits and debits the objects using the original G/L accounts, so it makes more sense for fewer senders Distribution: Reallocate primary costs from one or more cost centers to other cost centers or WBS elements, or profit centers to other profit centers.Universal Cost Allocation allows you the creation and execution of the following type of allocation cycles using the same Fiori Apps for all of them. Settlements of internal orders or WBS Elements.However, the new solution does not cover the following allocation processes that require to keep using the original transactions in SAP GUI system: Refer to the image below for further features: It also offers user-friendly reporting built-in Fiori with the capability to analyze the records in multiple currencies. The solution can perform allocations for actual data and plan data, providing simulation capabilities with the definition of predictive ledgers. Customers can quickly identify the possible financial effects of changed allocation rules on their financial data. Universal Cost Allocation offers several features and capabilities to make easier the cost allocation processes, and the related reporting and analysis performed to make business decisions. Besides, significant benefits are listed in the image below: In addition, it provides a simplified data model by removing a handful of core tables which in return reduces the database size significantly. It is needed to run just a few Fiori Apps, that are user friendly and having guided procedures and validations to make the user more confident with the tool. The new Universal Cost Allocation functionality in SAP S/4HANA reduces the number of transactions to run the cost allocations compared to previous versions. Please refer to the image below for further challenges: Also, the execution of the allocation processes and reporting may take long runtime. That may lead to difficulties to define the desired scenarios in allocation cycles and without having tools to simulate possible financial effects of changed allocation rules on their financial data. In addition, the organizations are managing uncertainty in current times having dynamic and complex processes. Also, there is a lack of traceability to analyze the cost allocated compared to the actual cost invoiced without having granular visibility at the reporting level. Mainly they are related to difficulties to understand their allocation cycles and the resultant cost flows, struggling to explain them to the relevant stakeholders. With the traditional cost allocation processes, organizations face some challenges. Indeed, financial and Controlling allocations are built in one architecture using the core tables for Universal Journal actual line items (ACDOCA) and plan items (ACDOCP).Ĭhallenges Associated With Traditional Cost Allocations With this functionality, just a few Fiori Apps are used to perform the allocations of cost centers, profit centers, and margin analysis considering both actual and plan records.
For example, the costs incurred at a cost center that provided services for other cost centers can be transferred to these cost centers with defined rules. Universal Cost Allocation is the new simplified functionality in SAP S/4HANA to allocate and distribute cost periodically from one controlling object to one or more others.
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