Defining a cost center for a sale TCD account

This page allows you to define a cost center for a sale TCD account. Tell me more.

Select the “Maintain TCD Definition” link from the “Maintain Sale Cost Center Rule Definition” page.

The “Maintain TCD Cost Center Rule Definition” page appears.

Enter the following field:

Company Code

Use the drop-down list box to select the code identifying the company over which the business unit has been defined. Mandatory. If the business unit spans across companies, then all the company codes that are mapped to the business unit to which the login organization unit belongs, will be available for selection in the ascending order, along with blank. The system displays blank by default on launch of the page.

Enter the following fields in the “Cost Center Definition Details” multiline:

Event	Use the drop-down list box to select the event or the business process based on which the cost center mapping is done. You can select from “Packslip”, “Stock Transfer Receipt”, “Stock Transfer Note” or “All”.
	Packslip – indicates that the items are sold to the customer with a packslip.
	Stock Transfer Note – indicates that if a deficit item requested by the customer then it is stocked from another location along with a stock transfer note.
	Stock Transfer Receipt – indicates that a stock transfer receipt is generated against a stock transfer note to acknowledge the items received.
	The system displays “All” by default on launch of the page.
Finance Book	Use the drop-down list box to select the code identifying the finance book that has been mapped to the company – business unit combination. All the finance books that has been mapped to the selected company - business unit combination will be available for selection in ascending order along with “All”. The system displays “All” by default on launch of the page.
TCD Code	The code identifying the tax, charge or discount (Alphanumeric, 10). Mandatory. The value entered here should have been defined in the “Taxes Charges Discounts” business component.
	Press the <Enter> key.
	The system retrieves and displays the TCD code description in the “TCD Code Desc.” field.
	Help facility available.
TCD Variant	The code identifying the tax, charge or discount variant (Alphanumeric, 10). Mandatory. The value entered here should have been defined in the “Taxes Charges Discounts” business component.
	Press the <Enter> key.
	The system retrieves and displays the TCD variant description in the “Variant Desc.” field.
	Help facility available.
Account Code	The code identifying the TCD account (Alphanumeric, 32). Mandatory. The value entered here must have been mapped to the TCD Code – TCD Variant combination in the “Account Rule Definition” business component. The definition should be applicable for sales.
	Press the <Enter> key.
	The system retrieves and displays the account code description in the “Account Desc.” field.
	Help facility available.

Note: This field should not be left blank if the “Cost Center” and the “Effective From Date” are not left blank.

Cost Center	The code identifying the cost center that has to be mapped to the company code + finance book + TCD account combination (Alphanumeric, 10). The code entered here should have been defined in the “Cost Setup” business component mapped to the business unit of the login organization unit.
	Press the <Enter> key.
	The system retrieves and displays the cost center description in the “Cost Center Desc.” field.
	Help facility available.

Note: This field should not be left blank if “No” has been selected in the “Additional Parameters” field and should be necessarily left blank if “Yes” has been selected in the “Additional Parameters” field.

Effective From

The date from which the cost center derived for the company code + finance book + TCD account combination is valid (Date Format).

The date entered in this field should be greater than or equal to the “Effective From Date” and should be less than or equal to the “Expiry Date” of the TCD account, that has been defined in the “Accounting Setup” business component.

Also, the date entered in this field should also be greater than or equal to the “Effective From Date” and should be less than or equal to the “Expiry Date” of the cost center, that has been defined in the “Cost Setup” business component.

The date entered here is also checked against the “Effective From Date” and the “Expiry Date” of the cost element that has been mapped to the TCD account code and the company code.

The system displays the following:

Valid Upto Date

The date till which the cost center definition is valid.

Note: For the same company code + finance book + TCD account combination, if two different cost center mapping is done, then the system updates the “Valid Upto Date” of the first definition to one day less than the new definition’s “Effective From Date”.

Date in this field will get updates only on creation of another for the same combination of Company Code + Finance Book + Event + TCD code + TCD Variant + Account Code.

Enter the following fields in the “Cost Center Definition Details” multiline:

Additional Parameters

Use the drop-down list box to specify whether additional parameters have to be specified for the cost center derived for the company code + finance book + TCD account combination. You can select from “Yes” or “No”. The system displays “No” by default on launch of the page.

The system displays the following:

TCD Code Desc.	A description pertaining to the TCD code.
Variant Desc.	A description pertaining to the TCD variant.
Account Desc.	A description pertaining to the TCD account.
Cost Center Desc.	A description pertaining to the cost center.

Check the box in the select column of the multiline to mark a definition for specifying the additional parameters.

Select the “Specify Additional Parameters” link from the bottom of the page to specify the additional parameters for the sale TCD cost center definition.

The system launches the “Maintain TCD Cost Center Rule Definition” page with the basic parameter details of the selected record.

Click the “Save Details” pushbutton to save the sale TCD cost center definition.

Cost center definition

If the sale cost center rule is defined without additional parameters, then the system saves the details and updates the login ID of the currently logged in user and the system date along.

If the sale cost center is defined with additional parameters, then the system saves the input data for further processing.

To proceed, carry out the following

Select the “Specify Additional Parameters” link from the bottom of the page to specify additional parameters definition for sale TCD cost center.

Select the “View TCD Definition” link from the bottom of the page to view the sale TCD cost center details.

Defining a cost center for a sale TCD account – An overview

In this page, you can specify the mandatory parameters for the cost center mapping like the:

Code identifying the company involved in the mapping
Finance book to which the sale TCD transactions are posted.
Event or the business process to which the cost center rule is defined
Code identifying the sale TCD account (mapped to the TCD Code and Variant) to which the cost center rule is defined
Effective date from which this sale TCD cost center definition is valid.

This page also allows you to specify one or all finance books that are mapped to the company for the sale TCD cost center definition. But, if all finance books (for the company code, event, finance book, TCD code, TCD variant and account) are used for the cost center definition then individual finance books cannot be mapped to another cost center (for the same company code, event, finance book, TCD code, TCD variant and account) till the previous definition is closed.

You can also specify whether additional parameters are involved in the sale TCD cost center definition. If additional parameters are involved then the system saves the basic parameters and takes you to the additional parameters page where the cost center rule can be defined. If not, then the system saves the sale TCD cost center definition along with the login ID of the currently logged in user and the system date.

Prerequisites

Mandatory

“Company Code” must have been defined in the “Organization Setup” business component.
“Finance Book” must have been defined in the “Organization Setup” business component.
"Finance Book" must have been mapped to the "Company Code".
Account rule definition must be available for the TCD Code - TCD Variant - Account code combination in the “Account Rule Definition” business component.
“Cost Center” must have been defined in the “Cost Setup” business component.
“TCD Account” must have been mapped to a normal cost element, which in turn must have been mapped to a cost center in the “Cost Setup” business component.

What you can do in this page

Set the event involved in the cost center definition

Set additional parameters applicability

Define sale TCD cost center

Set the event involved in the cost center definition

You can specify the event or the business process based on which the sale TCD cost center is defined.

Set the “Event” field to “Packslip” if the goods are delivered to the customer with a pack slip.

Set the “Event” field to “Stock Transfer Note” if a deficit item requested by the customer is stocked from another location along with a stock transfer note.

Set the “Event” field to “Stock Transfer Receipt” if a stock transfer receipt is generated against the stock transfer note to acknowledge the items received.

Set additional parameters applicability

You can specify whether additional parameters are used for the sale TCD cost center definition.

Set the “Additional Parameters” field to “Yes” if additional parameters are specified in the sale TCD cost center definition.

Set the “Additional Parameters” field to “No” if additional parameters are not specified in the sale TCD cost center definition.

Define sale TCD cost center

You can define a sale TCD cost center by specifying the mandatory parameters.

Specify the company code, the finance book, the account code mapped to the TCD code or TCD variant and the cost center to be mapped. “Cost center” and “Effective From Date” will be specified only when additional parameters is set as “No”.

Click the “Save” pushbutton to define a sale TCD cost center.