Calculation Offices

A calculation office is a work center that determines the enterprise unit for a PCS project or production order. The enterprise unit is linked to a financial company, which is financially responsible for a project or production order. Projects and production orders are always linked to a calculation office, so that LN can book the costs and production results of the production order or project to the financial company.

Note

Work centers and warehouses can belong to enterprise units other than the one linked to the calculation office. The financial transactions of the work centers and warehouses are posted to the financial companies of their own enterprise units.

Defining a calculation office
  1. Define a department in the Departments (tcmcs0565m000) session. Set the department type to Work Center.
  2. Specify the enterprise unit to which the calculation office belongs in the Departments (tcmcs0565m000) session.
  3. Define a work center in the Work Centers (tirou0101m000) session. The code of the work center must be the same as the department.
Calculation offices for production orders

On a production order's calculation office, LN posts material costs, operation costs, surcharges, and subcontracting costs.

The calculation office that you define in the Default Production Order Data (tisfc0102m000) session is the default calculation office for a production order. You can change the calculation office for a specific production order on the Costing tab in the Production Orders (tisfc0501m000) details session.

Calculation offices for PCS projects

On a PCS project's calculation office, LN posts non-item project costs, such as project surcharges, hours posted on activities, and general project costs. Furthermore, the PCS project's calculation office is used to aggregate the total costs and revenues of the project.

If you define a project in the Projects (tipcs2101m000) session, you can select a calculation office for the project in the Calculation Office field.

Default calculation office for PCS projects

If you generate a PCS project on a sales order or service order, a calculation office for the PCS project can be defaulted in three ways, dependent on the value in the Enterprise Unit for calc.off. used from field in the Project Control Parameters (tipcs0100m000) session:

  • Department
    The default calculation office for the PCS project is the calculation office that is linked to the enterprise unit of the sales office or the service department. You can define a default calculation office of a specific enterprise unit in the Enterprise Units (tcemm0130m000) session.
  • Warehouse
    The default calculation office for the PCS project is the calculation office that is linked to the enterprise unit of the warehouse. You can define a default calculation office of a specific enterprise unit in the Enterprise Units (tcemm0130m000) session.
  • None
    The default calculation office for the PCS project is determined by the number group and the order series of the sales order, service order, or production order for which the PCS project is created. You can use the Default Project Data by Number Group (tipcs0103m000) session to define calculation offices for combinations of number group and order series.
Note

If you do not specify a calculation office for an enterprise unit, LN uses the calculation office based on the order series.

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