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 that are different from the calculation office's enterprise unit. The financial transactions of the work centers and warehouses are posted to the financial companies of their own enterprise units. Alternatively, intercompany trade relationships must be defined between the enterprise units.

Defining a calculation office of the type costing

Start the Enterprise Units (tcemm0130m000) session
- Select the enterprise unit for which you want to define a department.
  
  Selecting the enterprise unit, will start the Enterprise Unit (tcemm0630m000) session.
- In the Enterprise Unit (tcemm0630m000) session, on the Departments tab you can add a new department.
- The New Department command displays a new window.
  
  Specify the department type Work Center
- Specify the work center type Costing.
In the Work Centers (tirou0101m000) session, you must specify the rest of the calculation office data.

If the Sites parameter in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000) session is either In Preparation or Active you can also:

Start the Sites (tcemm0150m000) session.

Select the site for which you want to define a department, this will start the Site (tcemm0650m000) session.
In the Site (tcemm0650m000) session, select the Departments tab.

The New Department command displays a new window.
Specify the department type Work Center
Specify the work center type Costing.
In the Work Centers (tirou0101m000) session, you must specify the rest of the calculation office data.

Calculation offices for production orders

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

The default calculation office depends on the setting of the Calculation Office defined in field in the Production Order Parameters (tisfc0100s000) session.

You can select one of the following options:

Default Production Order Data

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.
Prepare for Production Department

Costs for existing production orders are booked to the calculation office linked to the order series of the production order. You can setup the date required to book costs to the production department calculation office.

Note: If operations are still present on the selected production orders when the option is selected, the calculation office is defined based on the production department the last operation is linked to.
Production Department

The calculation office for the production department linked to the production order is used. The production department calculation office is defined in the Production Department (tirou2100m100) session.

Note: If Standard Cost by Enterprise Unit parameter in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000) session is selected, using the Production Department option as the default for the calculation office is mandatory.

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.

Note: You can select a regular work center, sales office or warehouse as the calculation office for a PCS project.

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.