Process Flow

The graphic below shows the posting transactions for costs and revenues
form the DBM order through the CO-PA:
Warehouse

Level 1

Cost Center of plant

1

DBM order

3 Material consumption
(goods issue)
Valuated for the moving
average price or standard
price

Sales order

Sales order

The items are assigned to

the internal order for the
DBM order.

The items are assigned to

the internal order for the
DBM order.

The hourly rate for the

Services is defined in
cost center planning.

2 Activity allocation

Internal order
in
DBM Controlling

The cost center activity

price is multiplied by the
relevant activity quantity.

6a Internal revenues on
the basis of primary cost
repostings.

Revenues 5
5 Revenues
Billing document

Level 2

Internal cost object

Billing document

For example, internal orders

sales orders, contracts,
cost centers.

6 Line item repostings 6

The revenues from the billing
document and all associated
cost portions are reposted by
means of line item reposting.

6b Order settlement

Internal order
for each bill-to party

Internal orders
for each bill-to party

Individually or as a collective
internal order for DBM
orders

Individually or as a collective
Internal order for DBM
orders

Automatically generated
Settlement rule

Automatically generated
Settlement rule

7 Settlement of internal orders

Level 3
Profitability Analysis

From the costs and revenues

collected for the internal orders, one
or more Profitability Analysis line
items are generated and the data is
provided to the object level for
Profitability Analysis.

Level 1: As soon as you create a DBM order, the system generates a header
internal order for DBM controlling on the first level (see number 1 in the
picture 1). With arrow 2 the costs for labor values are posted with activity
allocation. Goods issue posts the material consumption to the internal order.
You can see it with arrow 3. If work is finished, the internal order gets the
status Technically completed (number 4). All costs for labor values and parts
are parked on this internal order, till the revenues are posted. It is a necessary
assumption for analysis in controlling in general, that costs and revenues are
posted together in the relevant period. The creation of the billing documents
brings the revenues to the internal order (arrow 5). The number of billing
documents depends on the splits in the DBM order.
This enables you to examine the contribution margin on the basis of individual
orders as well as on the basis of compatible selection criteria (such as
vehicle) within Overhead Cost Controlling.

Level 2: Depending on the settings in the Customizing, the following options

exist for this step:
Level 2 and consequently level 3 are not reached.
On the basis of order control, the system generates an internal order
automatically for the DBM order for each bill-to party.
You use collective internal order to collect all costs and revenues of the
same type such as the same defect code, same vehicle or same
vehicle category. This enables you to describe a breakeven analysis for
specific warranty cases, for example.
During billing, the system splits the costs and revenues among the individual
bill-to parties for the DBM order. A bill-to party internal order is reposted only if
a bill-to party exists. At the same time, the system generates the settlement
rules that you require for the CO-PA automatically on the basis of order
control and repost the costs and revenues from the internal order on the first
level to the internal order on the second level. In this case you have external
revenues (arrow 6). But there is also a posting of internal revenues via
primary cost reposting (arrow 6a) or a cost collection without revenues and
settlement of cost payer instead of settlement to CO-PA possible (arrow 6b).
Our system is normally customized in this way, that we use order type 2000
for arrow 6 and order type 4000 and 4100 for arrow 6a and 6b. For technical
detail information see also chapter 5.
Thus you can also take into account the bill-to party during the contribution
margin analysis. The bill-to party can be one of the following:
Customer
Maintenance contract
Vehicle
Warranty

Level 3: If you want to use CO-PA, you can transfer the values to CO-PA. The
characteristics of CO-PA are provided on the basis of the settlement rule or
the standard derivation based on this (arrow 7).
This enables you to examine the contribution margin in accordance with any
information in the DBM order, that is, characteristics and their values. You can
use the full scope of functions for CO-PA reports and create your own reports
bases on drilldown reporting.
All customer, vehicle and workshop specific information known in the DBM
order, or that can be derived from the DBM order, can be transferred to the
characteristics defined in CO-PA and to a limited extent, different material
groups. To distinguish different material groups, you have to use different cost
elements for different material groups.

1 PROGRAM LOGIC
A user triggers implicit and explicit events in the DBM order, which are
converted in the Order Engine (OE) to actions, which accords to function
modules. The following chart shows the connection between user action in
DBM order and order engine action in the background (see also picture 1):
Arrow User action in
DBM order

Labor Explicit OE-event

Parts Implicit

OE-action

Button SAVE

ORD_SAVE

INT_ORD_CREAT
E

Button
CONFIRMATION

CONFIRM

CBOOK_WORK

Button GOODS
ISSUES

GDSMVT_CR
EATE

GDSMVT_CREAT
E

Button CONFIRM
COMPLETION

L/P

ORD_T_CONF TECH_CONF

L/P

ORD_T_CONF TECH_CONF_IO

L/P

SD_ORD_CR

INTORD_CREATE
_RE

L/P

SD_ORD_CR

CREATE_ORD_G
ROUP

6a/
6b

L/P

SD_ORD_CR

INT_BILL_VIA_CO

L/P

SD_ORD_CR

CRE_SETTLE_RU
LE

L/P

SD_ORD_CR

REPOST_LINE_IT
EM

4
5

Chart 3

Button BILLING
DOCUMENT

Order engine actions are nothing else, than function modules. This is
described in the following chart (see also picture 1):
Arrow OE-action

Function module

INT_ORD_CREATE

/DBM/ORD_AC_INTORD_CREATE

CBOOK_WORK

/DBM/CO_ACT_LBR_COST_BOOK

GDSMVT_CREATE

/DBM/ORD_AC_CO_MSG_BUFFER_CLEA
/DBM/ORD_AC_GOODSMVMNT_CREATE

TECH_CONF

/DBM/ORD_AC_TECHREADY_MAINTAIN

TECH_CONF_IO

/DBM/CO_ACT_INT_ORDER_SET_TABG

INTORD_CREATE_RE

/DBM/CO_ACT_CREATE_ORDER_RE

CREATE_ORD_GROUP

/DBM/CO_ACT_CREATE_ORDER_GROUP

6a/
6b

INT_BILL_VIA_CO

/DBM/CO_ACT_INT_BILL_VIA_CO

CRE_SETTLE_RULE

/DBM/CO_ACT_CREATE_SETTLE_RULE

REPOST_LINE_ITEM

/DBM/CO_ACT_REPOST_LINE_ITEM

Chart 4