Resource Related Billing

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

We are implementing a global roll-out project. We have a DIP profile for resource related billing that considers activty type, cost element and billing form as characteristics for material determination.

Our client has different working hours as

- Mechanical working hours

- mechnaical working hours with %50 surcharge

- mechanical working hours wtih %100 surcharge

- Electirical working hours

- Electrical working hours %50 surcharge

- Electircal working hour with %100 surcharge

These labor hours have different price by the way.

It is required to have different materials for each of them on the invoice. We will create different activty types for the surcharges and regular working hours. Hıowever based on the controlling point of view we cannot create different activity types for electrical and mechanical working hours. (they needed to be represented as general working hours)

Therefore I would like to have your opinions how can we determine different materials for these labor hours. (Should we add new characteristics to our DIP profile)

Let me know if you need further clarifications.

thanks in advance.

[aadityaramesh_palsule]

Hi Erkan,

One possible solution would be to use Accounting Indicator in DIP profile. You can configure 2 accounting indicators one for mechanical and one for electrical working hours. Then in DIP profile, add accounting indicator as characteristics for material determination and maintain appropriate materials. Use these accounting indicators while creating confirmations.

Regards,

Aaditya

[jason_barton]

Aaditya, would agree with your potential approach, but would just throw caution on that one. We actually use accounting indicator as a means to differentiate regular time versus overtime for example. We then hook routine to our overtime condition type that derives assuming the time is flagged as OT (VBKD-BEMOT).

In our experience we had to make the material code as the employee (HR record), so we have numerous material codes set against a given DIP profile. The material derived is the via the employee booking the time, e.g. employee 1234 books time, gets derived as Z00001234 material. The differentiation in what type of time is basically tagged to WBS being booked against. Any true time reporting as to what activities, etc. were booked to is done upstream of RRB in project related reports.

Hope that helps, please revert if not.

Thanks,

Jay

[aadityaramesh_palsule]

Jay,

We had somewhat similar requirement as mentioned earlier. We needed different billing based on Type of employee (Normal Labour/Manager etc.), Type of Work (Installation, Testing etc.) and Type of Work timings (Normal, Over). We used Activity types to differentiate employees and Accounting Indicator for each possible combination of Type of Work and Type of Timings. DIP would determine appropriate materials based on Activity Type and Accounting Ind.

Although this could not map all types of work being done, so we started using SKF (Statistical Key Figures) also (through CATS) to further differentiate material determination. The Work Centre would drive the cost Centre for the operation and this would also form as criteria for material determination.

So ultimately we had - Cost Centre, Activity Type, Accounting Indicator, SKF as criteria to determine the the material from DIP.

Configuring DIP was very time We had direct mapping of materials and maintained condition records based on material itself. So pricing part was less complicated.

Regards,

Aaditya