Improved Cost Planning with the NetWeaver Business Client – We are Showing you 3 Useful Functions

Cost planning in NWBC is a universal planning, controlling and supervision instrument, from which use every person participating in planning profits from – from the directors of cost centers in a company, who create, process, evaluate, analyze and supervise actual and planned data, to the area manager as well as the executive board, which is supplied of a supervision of cost centers and the generation of planning sessions.

Cost planning with NWBC essentially contains four big application fields, which three of are explained in more detail later:

supervision and audit of cost centers and specific accounting processes

editing of master data of cost centers, type of performances and further CO objects as well as the creation, editing and analysis of planning data

planning, controlling and supervision instrument within cost planning (workflow support in the planning process, planning help and supervision overviews during the planning)

generation and evaluation of reports within the controlling

Overview of application fields in the cost center planning of the NetWeaver Business Clients

Features of cost planning with NWBC

Complete cost center supervision: In order to supervise possible deviations between actual and planned data, a rule can be defined in the application “supervision” for specific cost centers or groups of cost center, exemplarily a definition of a cost limit for a cost center. The same applies to cost types or cost groups. A breach of the rule automatically leads to an alert, which is sent to the responsible cost center manager. That way he will always have an overview of critical variations.

Detailed view on predefined rules of a cost center, which breach will automatically lead to an alert, which is sent to the responsible cost center manager

Comfortable planning functions: Compared to the classic SAP GUI, the use of NWBC allows the user of the cost center planning to gather all relevant data in a planning template and to call up particular actual data for a comparison in the same surface if required. This way the planning of data for the upcoming business year can happen a lot faster, more clearly and especially more comfortably for the user.

Comfortable planned/actual comparison in one template

Planning sessions without Excel: With the application “planning session” the communication, coordination and the agreements of all participants in the cost center planning can be depicted holistically in one system. That way you will avoid media disruption, improve data quality massively and give up the maintenance of additional Excel files completely.

Is there anything else?

You can find a detailed explanation of all advantages of cost planning with the NWBC for your company in our next edition of the “Informationstechnologie und Immobilien“ from this fall of 2015.

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